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Current System for Wall Street Disputes Favors SEC
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As a result of mandatory-arbitration agreements, most anyone who works on Wall Street or invests through a brokerage firm agrees to settle disputes through mandatory arbitration, and the process creates a home-field advantage for prosecutors. So reports Bloomberg.
Read more...London Mom Gets Easy Sentence for Killing Pedophile Neighbor
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A 32-year-old London mother who stabbed her neighbor, a convicted pedophile, could be out of prison in just 11 moths after her manslaughter conviction. So reports The New York Post.
Read more...Phony Plastic Surgeon to Face Homicide Charges for Botched Butt Injections
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Queens, N.Y., prosecutors are pursuing an indictment against a phony plastic surgeon whose botched butt injection was ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner. So reports The New York Daily News.
Read more...Georgia Executes First Woman in Decades
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Georgia administered a lethal injection to Kelly Gissendaner, 47, the first woman executed in that state in 70 years. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Making a Lateral Move? Protect Yourself by Following This Advice
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Lawyers moving between jobs at smaller law firms need to make sure they don’t wind up violating the rules of professional responsibility, exposed to undue professional liability, or unemployed. So reports The Recorder.
Read more...From the the Batmobile to Tom Brady: September's Notable Verdicts
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From Batman to Brady and big awards, here are some notable verdicts from September.
Read more...Sean Penn Sues Empire Creator for Comparing Show's Terrance Howard's Abuse of Women to Penn's Past Troubles
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Sean Penn has filed a defamation suit against Empire creator Lee Daniels for stating that Empire star Terrance Howard, who has publicly admitted to abusing women, “ain't done nothing different than… Sean Penn." So reports the Hollywood Reporter.
Read more...NJ Doc Faces More Counts of Criminal Sexual Contact
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A New Jersey doctor who was arrested last month and released from a county jail on charges of criminal sexual contact and harassment by offensive touching was arrested again this week. So reports The New York Daily News.
Read more...Man Arrested for Disparaging Police on Facebook to Collect $35K
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A small village in rural Wisconsin will pay $35,000 to a man who was arrested for calling local cops “f**king racist bastards” on the local police department’s Facebook page. So reports Ars Technica.
Read more...Surgeon Who Made Assistants Perform Surgeries Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
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A California orthopedic surgeon and several of her associates are accused of causing nearly two dozen patients to suffer significant injuries by having physician’s assistants—not doctors—operate on them. So reports the Associated Press.
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