It was a crowded pool at a birthday party in a Villa Park home. It was a perfect day for a party – warm and sunny. There were plenty of kids in the pool and even more adults standing around the pool watching them. But not one of those kids…
I recently came across an article in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat titled “Despicable People”. Obviously I was intrigued. But as I continued to read the article, I was hardly surprised to find out that it was about a Petaluma nursing home that was fined $100,000 for poor care and…
Even though it was four years ago, Robert Rise says he will never forget the excruciating pain, “Like someone was sticking a knife through my intestines,” the 60-year-old Helendale resident says. He wasn’t in a traffic accident or injured in a fall. Robert ate sushi. Robert remembers the day, August…
A jury in New Mexico, while acknowledging that a nursing home was negligent, awarded $54 million to the family of a woman who died in the facility, according to a news article in the Albuquerque Tribune. Most of the award – about $50 million – was in punitive damages. Lori…
A Los Angeles jury recently decided that the County Metropolitan Transportation Authority should pay $13.8 million to a 58-year-old man who was partially paralyzed in a crash with a parked big-rig, according to an Associated Press news report posted on the San Diego Union Tribune’s Web site. Joseph L. Garcia…
Victims of clergy abuse granted opportunity to hold Catholic Church accountable. In what was a historic decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the revival of lawsuits claiming fraud against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in various alleged incidents of molestations by priests. According to a news report by the Associated Press,…
A municipality cannot be sued over its failure to install a traffic signal at an intersection where a boy was killed, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in affirming a summary judgment, according to an article in Lawyers USA weekly magazine. According to the article, the plaintiff’s 13-year-old son was fatally…
A 21-year-old man died in the early morning of July 1st, 2007 after the sport utility vehicle in which he was a passenger, flipped over on the freeway, according to an article in The Orange County Register. Cesar Sanchez was reportedly ejected from the Ford Excursion after the SUV rolled…
The majority of victims of clergy sexual abuse are women, not young boys. Many of these women hesitate to discuss their experiences because of shame and the paralyzing belief that they somehow “deserved it”. These statements are taken from Peggy Warren’s website where she tells her story of manipulation and…
American automakers are fighting hard to stop a Senate bill that proposes a 40% increase in automobile fuel economy within thirteen years, by the year 2020. Instead of fighting to maintain their inefficient ways and continually losing market share to foreign car makers, why isn’t the American automobile industry challenging…