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BP wins $99 million reduction in toxic fumes case

March 18, 2010

A federal judge in Houston on Tuesday shot down a mammoth $100 million December verdict against BP’s Texas City refinery, cutting the award to less than half a million and dealing the British oil giant a rare legal victory as it struggles to overcome several years of problems at the plant.

 

U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt said plaintiffs failed to prove London-based BP was grossly negligent in a chemical release at the refinery that sent more than 100 workers to area hospitals on the evening of April 19, 2007.

 

Read Article:  Chron

 

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3 Rulings Find No Link to Vaccines and Autism

In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, does not cause autism

 

The three rulings are the second step in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding begun in 2002 in the United States Court of Federal Claims. The proceeding combines the cases of 5,000 families with autistic children seeking compensation from the federal vaccine injury fund, which comes from a 75-cent tax on every dose of vaccine.

 

Read Article:  The New York Times

 

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Working at Patsy’s Pizza a slice of hell, claims lawsuit

Patsy’s Pizza may be great, but its work conditions are definitely not, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a former dishwasher.

 

Rafael Bernitt said working conditions at Patsy’s E. 60th St. Manhattan parlor were “nothing short of a modern day indentured servitude,” according to his lawsuit.

He claimed he worked 10 hours a day, six days a week, next to a coal-burning stoves with only two 15-minute breaks a day, according to the lawsuit.

 

Read Article:  Daily News.Com

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Lawsuit over scheduling to proceed

The Title IX and civil rights lawsuit brought by former Franklin County High School girls basketball coach Amber Parker on behalf of her daughters over the scheduling of boys and girls basketball games will proceed against the Indiana High School Athletic Association, Franklin County High School and its basketball opponents, based on a federal district court ruling Friday.

 

Title IX is the 1972 federal statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender by institutions that receive federal money. The suit challenges the fact that boys play more often on preferred Friday and Saturday nights. It alleges that the IHSAA was put on notice by federal authorities as early as 1997 about the disparity, but the organization ignored the warning and allowed the discrimination to continue. The IHSAA, Franklin County High School and 14 of Franklin’s opponents had filed motions to dismiss.

 

 

Read Article:  Indy Star.Com

 

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Toyota Questions Case of Runaway Prius

DETROIT — Toyota said on Monday that the account given by a San Diego man who claimed his Prius hybrid car accelerated out of his control for 30 miles was “inconsistent” with the findings of its initial examination of the car.

 

The company statement followed a similar one from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which said its investigators could not find evidence explaining the incident and that they might never know what happened.

 

Read Article:  NY Times

 

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