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5 hrs ago | katysexposure.wordpress.com | MyRights

Owners sue Quadrant Homes over ’sick’ houses – Mold, cold making residents ill, owners allege

Sold on its square footage — Quadrant advertisements run during the housing boom presented a family lost in its living room — the house lacked a heater powerful enough to warm all that space, Sigafoos said. Sections of the home had been left without insulation by crews working for the Weyerhaeuser Co.-owned developer, he claimed, and wet materials used during the house’s rushed construction provided a foothold for mold.

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10 hrs ago | ABA Journal

Partners of Mintz Levin and Choate Form New Law Firm

Two Boston partners at well-known law firms are striking out on their own. Lawrence Gennari and Neil Aronson are forming their own firm in Needham, Mass.

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Related Topix: Needham, MA

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The Orange County Register

Enough said by controversial Lou Dobbs

CNN host Lou Dobbs resigned last week, but the damage he caused to the immigration debate will be felt for a long time.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Illegal Immigration

Examiner.com

Militias in America: Past Present and Future

Get alerts when there is a new article from the St. John the Baptist Parish Progressive Examiner.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform

Free Republic

Data on Arrest Records Aren't Always by the Book

Old Reports Suggesting One-Third to One-Half of All Men Are Apprehended Had Flaws, but New Studies Confirm a High Rate More than 40 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson's crime commission reported that half of American men would be arrested at some point in their lives.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Sat Nov 21, 2009

PR-inside.com

Greenberg Traurig Thanksgiving Food Drive Benefits The Children and...

The attorneys and business staff at international law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A., are helping to ensure that 46 families in Overtown will be able to enjoy the wonderful American tradition of a Thanksgiving feast this year.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Miami, FL

TheStreet.com

Ambac Meets With Wisconsin Regulators

Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg traveled to New York to meet with executives from Ambac Financial and the investment bank Jefferies yesterday.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Ambac Financial Group, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Jefferies Group, Investment Services

Medical News

Quest Diagnostics reports sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use

New data released today by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of employment-related drug testing services, reveal that drug testing of hair specimens from employees and job applicants in the general U.S. workforce has tracked sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use from 2005 to the first half of 2009 ...

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Related Topix: Drugs, Drug Testing, Biotech, Quest Diagnostics, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Free Republic

Covington Secures Retrial for Former Death Row Inmate

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has granted a retrial for Covington & Burling LLP client Cory Maye, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 shooting of a police officer that occurred during a narcotics task force search of Mr.

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Related Topix: Prison, Drugs, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Death Penalty

Science Blog

Projections of savings from health IT are baseless, Harvard researchers say

The increased computerization in U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, Harvard researchers say, although it may have modestly improved the quality of care for heart attacks.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Medicaid

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pre-Paid Legal Services says FTC may sue

Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law firms, said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission may sue the company over allegedly misleading representations made by its identity theft prevention program.

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Related Topix: PrePaid Legal Services, Pre-Paid Legal Servcies, Ada, OK

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Tech Confidential Blog

Deal Economy 2010: Harvey Miller on Lehman, GM

Instead of allowing Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to collapse, the government could have stood by the beleaguered bank and helped it unwind slowly, bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller, who represented Lehman for Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, told Matt Miller, senior writer at The Deal.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy

TechWeb.com

Obama Administration Defends Its Data Quality

Inaccuracies in stimulus-tracking data on Recovery.gov do exist, but overall the transparency effort has been a success, says a special advisor to the President.

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The Daily News

Wiggins Ready To Grab YLD Baton

NEW BLOOD: Kyle M. Wiggins, an associate at the Memphis office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, is taking the helm of the Memphis Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division tonight at the YLD's annual meeting and elections.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, PC, Shelby County, TN, Ouachita Baptist University, Paris, TN, Opinion

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Bloomberg

Homebuilding in U.S. Unexpectedly Drops on Tax-Credit, Employment Concerns

Residential construction in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in October amid concern a homebuyer tax credit would expire, illustrating the marketa s dependence on government help to sustain a recovery as job losses mount.

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Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage

SNL Financial

Report: Simon explores acquiring General Growth assets

Simon Property Group Inc. has engaged financial and legal advisers to explore the possibility of acquiring assets from General Growth Properties Inc.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Simon Property Group, Transportation, General Growth Properties, Economics News, Bankruptcy

The Baltimore Sun

JHU business school moving to Legg tower in Harbor East

The Carey Business School will occupy four floors of the Legg Mason Tower. By Hanah Cho November 18, 2009 The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is relocating to the Legg Mason Tower, becoming the latest tenant to move from Baltimore's downtown to Harbor East 's waterfront.

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Related Topix: Legg Mason, Financial Services, Investment Services, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro

Ventura County Star

Legal language renders all Texas marriages moot, Democrat says

Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas, Texas Government, Gay/Lesbian

Tue Nov 17, 2009

ABA Journal

Winston & Strawn Opens Two More China Offices

Winston & Strawn is planning to open offices in Beijing and Shanghai after getting approval for the expansion by the country's Ministry of Justice.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Barclays accused of taking unfair advantage in Lehman purchase

Barclays is facing a $12bn lawsuit from the liquidators of Lehman Brothers over allegations the British bank unfairly benefited from a "windfall profit" when it bought the investment bank's US arm at the height of the financial crisis in September 2008.

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Related Topix: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Investment Services

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