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WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Republican says the debate over President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee should not begin with a deadline for a vote, as the president wants.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A California jury on May 18 awarded the City of Modesto, Calif., $320,000 to investigate and $18 million to clean up perchloroethylene contamination from dry cleaning operations in the second phase of a decade-old litigation against the manufacturers of dry cleaning fluids and machines (Modesto, City of v. The Dow Chemical Co., et al., No. 98-999345, Calif. Super., San Francisco Co.).
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TRENTON, N.J. - A Nevada couple on May 15 sued several manufacturers of children’s bath and personal care products in New Jersey federal court, alleging that the products contain carcinogenic ingredients (Kristina Vercellono,et al. v. Gerber Products Company, et al., No. 2:09-cv-2350, D. N.J.).
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Because of an exception to a bacteria exclusion, a South Carolina federal judge on May 13 ruled that a hotel’s liability insurer has a duty to defend several lawsuits alleging injury and death as a result of Legionella bacteria (Union Insurance Co. v. Soleil Group Inc., et al., No. 2:07-CV-3995, D. S.C.).
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HARTFORD, Conn. - A panel in the Connecticut Appellate Court ruled May 6 that a trial court did not err in finding that a heart device plaintiff’s claims were preempted by federal law (Leslie Mullin, et al. v. Guidant Corporation, No. AC29829, Conn. App.; See July 2008, Page 4).
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BROOKLYN, NY - The judge overseeing the Zyprexa multidistrict litigation on May 12 disqualified one plaintiff expert as “shockingly careless” with facts but approved another without a hearing (In Re: Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1596, No. 04-md-1596, E.D. N.Y.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40125; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40015).
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Senate foes Al Franken and Norm Coleman stepped off Minnesota’s campaign trail last November after sinking $37 million into commercials, consultants and statewide tours.
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WASHINGTON — The top Democrat overseeing President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee says he will set his own schedule for Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings.
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WASHINGTON — The top Republican involved in the confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee says he would prefer his colleagues refrain from calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
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I take issue with Dana Milbank’s assertion about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor [Washington Sketch, May 27] that “in selecting Sotomayor, Obama opted for biography over brain.” This conclusion flies in the face of Judge Sotomayor’s outstanding academic and judicial record.
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