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Man Claims Wal-Mart Purchase Killed His Wife

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A Nebraska widower has filed a wrongful death suit against Wal-Mart and the maker of its plastic bags after his wife allegedly died from complications related to an infection she developed after she cut her big toe on a can of food she had just purchased the retailer. So the Journal Star reports.

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Cory Booker Got $689K from Gov’t-Linked Law Firm

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker's last three tax returns show he was paid $689,000 from 2010 to 2012 by the law firm where he was formerly a partner, the New York Post reports.

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Texting a Driver May Result in Liability: N.J. Appeals Court

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A New Jersey appeals court last week held that someone who sends a text message to a driver—and knows or has special reason to know that the driver might be viewing the text message while behind the wheel—may be held liable for an accident that the driver gets into while reading the text. So reports the Los Angeles Times.

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Justice Dept. Won’t Block Pot Legalization by States

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In a move that the owner of one marijuana dispensary called “the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition,” Deputy Attorney General James Cole last week sent a memo to federal prosecutors stating that the Justice Department will not sue to block laws legalizing marijuana in 20 states and the District of Columbia. So reports The New York Times.

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Tylenol Maker to Change Bottle Caps Amid Product Liability Suits

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Faced with more than 85 federal court cases alleging the plaintiffs suffered liver failure from Tylenol despite having taken that over-the-counter pain reliever as directed, Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit will change the caps on Tylenol bottles to state “CONTAINS ACETAMINOPHEN” and “ALWAYS READ THE LABEL” in red lettering’ So reports USA Today.

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N.J. Becomes 2nd State to Ban Gay Conversion Therapy

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Republican N.J. Governor Chris Christie last week signed a law making it illegal for licensed therapists to use therapy to change the sexual orientation of minors. So reports USA Today.

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Chicago Firm Plays Week-Long Practical Joke on Summer Associates

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As an icebreaker intended to give its summer associates something to bond over and discuss after hours, a 22-attorney firm in Chicago hired an actor to work and mingle among the law students summering at the firm as a fellow new hire. So reports the ABA Journal.

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WikiLeaks Culprit Wants to Live as a Woman

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Bradley Manning, the Army private who was sentenced to 35 years in prison last week for leaking documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010, has announced he wants to begin living as a woman. So reports Today.com.

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NYC Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional

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A federal judge last week ruled that New York City police officers' stop-and-frisk practices—widely credited with lowering the city's crime rate—violate the constitutional rights of the city's minorities.

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'Blurred Lines' Creators Issue Preemptive Copyright Suit

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Attorneys for pop star Robin Thicke and his co-collaborators on the song "Blurred Lines" last week filed a preemptive lawsuit asking a judge to determine that the ‘song of the summer’ doesn't infringe the copyrights of Marvin Gaye song “Got to Give It Up” and George Clinton song “Sexy Ways.” So reports the New York Daily News.

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