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Greenwood High School faces suit over prayer

March 15, 2010

A Greenwood High School honor student who learned in class about court rulings striking down school prayer has found a real-world application — his own graduation ceremony.

 

Eric Workman’s lawsuit, filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, challenges the high school’s practice of allowing seniors to vote on whether to have a student-led prayer at graduation.

 

Read Article:  Indy Star.com

 

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Family sues over inmate’s death in 2007

Santana Marquice Smith was already dead, lying on his side with his right hand covering his face, when a detention officer carrying a breakfast tray banged on the Tarrant County Jail inmate’s cell door in October 2007.

 

But even when there was no response to the call for food, the guard didn’t check on Smith, a 34-year-old Fort Worth construction worker, according to a federal lawsuit filed by Smith’s mother. Instead, the guard is accused of closing the food slot to Smith’s maximum-security cell and continuing down the corridor, passing out trays.

Read Article:  Star Telegram

 

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State joins antipsychotic drug lawsuit

Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office joined a federal lawsuit yesterday that contends that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to get its drugs, especially the powerful antipsychotic Risperdal, prescribed in nursing homes.

 

The action was taken as Coakley’s office disclosed that it is also scrutinizing companies that market antipsychotics to Massachusetts nursing homes. These drugs are widely used in some homes for residents suffering from dementia, a condition that puts them at greater risk of death when given antipsychotics.

 

Read Article:  Boston News.Com

 

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Pledge of Allegiance, Replete with ‘God’ Reference, Upheld by 9th Cir

Darn. The Ninth Circuit on Thursday came a mere one vote away from giving us something to write about for months and months and months.

 

But alas, the vote came down 2-1 in favor of upholding the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Click here for the AP story; here for the LAT story; here for the opinion, in all of its 193-page glory (though most of it consists of Judge Stephen Reinhardt’s dissent).

 

 

 

Read Article: The Wall Street Journal

 

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Ground Zero Workers Reach Deal Over Claims

and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials and lawyers for the plaintiffs

 

They said that the settlement would compensate about 10,000 plaintiffs according to the severity of their illnesses and the level of their exposure to contaminants at the World Trade Center site.

 

Read Article: The NewYorkTimes.Com

 

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