On Jan. 16, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule that directly contradicts Congress’ expressed intent when it passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDA Amendments Act of 2007).

Nine-month-old Liam John died of asphyxiation in his crib on April 11, 2005. The drop rail had detached from its plastic track, creating a gap through which Liam slipped feet-first. Instead of falling to the floor, which could have been bad enough, Liam’s head became stuck between the rail and the mattress.

What prompted the FDA to act was its re-evaluation of the drug’s safety after the January 2006 publication of two studies that linked the drug’s use to serious side effects, including kidney problems, heart attacks and strokes.

License plates used to be such simple things. A kid on a road trip could learn what the plates for all 50 states looked like and could check them off on a list. Not anymore.

Blogging, once the communication domain of tech-savvy youngsters, has evolved into something that’s the opposite of Trix, the cereal that touts itself as “for kids.” Increasingly, lawyers are creating blogs about their law practices, court rulings or whatever strikes their fancy.

Authorities are not sure whose head it came from. The bone: Some criminal justice groups want the hair for DNA testing, and a district attorney doesn’t want to give it up.

The truth is that patients in states with arbitrary restrictions on access to the legal accountability system are more likely to have worse overall health care.

Subprime mortgage lending, also known as second-chance lending, is the practice of making loans to borrowers who do not qualify for prime interest rates because of their credit history. A weakened credit history may result from late payments, bankruptcy, foreclosures, repossessions, charge-offs or overextended credit.

The thought of being sentenced to serve time for a crime you didn’t commit certainly can cause uneasiness and fear. Add the possibility of facing the death penalty as an innocent person and your mind may question whether the system we have in place needs some fine-tuning.  When you fall into that catagory, the death penalty issue is the only issue.

 Do people with money, power or celebrity operate under a different legal standard than those without? Is justice for sale?

ction fatigue is a powerful malady, leading many of us to avoid CNN, turn away from poll-watching websites and watch anything on television — anything — other than political coverage. We are tired; we are relieved that it’s over.

Consider tipping in restaurants. You tip your server based on friendliness, good service and the peculiar power with which human kindness courses through you at that moment, right? You round up, you round down, but those are supposed to be the principles at work.

However, it is a feat that attorney Lenard Leeds has tenaciously and skillfully accomplished more than once, each time making headlines and building a reputation as a tough litigator who helps both the rich and famous and the general public claim their inheritances.

When individuals, business owners and families turn to the courts to help resolve disputes and mete out justice, they rightfully expect an expeditious, efficient resolution. Sadly, that is hard to come by at the Texas Supreme Court. Indeed, the state's highest court operates at a snail's pace, leaving individuals and business owners in limbo while the Court's backlog expands.

Not only did the court revoke Hurt’s privilege to proceed in forma pauperis — a status established by court rule that allows litigants who cannot afford filing fees to file without them — in his 44 pending appeals and summarily dismiss them all, but much more unusually, it prospectively denied him the status for any future appeals, requiring that he pay the applicable fees.

In 2004, the board reinterpreted the Hallway Rule to prohibit the mezuzah and removed it. When the Blochs reposted it, it was again removed. This pattern was repeated a few times as the dispute grew heated.

Marriage versus domestic-partnership law: Are there benefits to one and not the other? The California attorney general’s office has argued that gays enjoy the rights of marriage under the domestic-partnership law, but it seems that an Orange County judge doesn’t see it that way.

Twenty-three deaths have been linked to the use of the patch, but the total number of deaths is believed to be higher because 90 percent of adverse events are unreported. Of the 23 deaths, 18 of the victims suffered blood clots and five suffered a heart attack or stroke.

New Jersey is the latest state to pass laws dealing with the volatile mixture of computers, the Internet and convicted sex offenders. The state, along with Florida and Nevada, has made it a crime for some convicted sex offenders to use the Internet. The law affects sex offenders who used the Internet to help them commit their crimes.

Cell phones play an integral role in most peoples' lives. It's hard to imagine walking, working or driving without our phones nearby. Most drivers believe they can talk on the phone while driving without becoming distracted, just as they can change playlists on their MP3 player, eat lunch, put on makeup and attend to their children while driving.

Every day, millions of Americans take for granted the fact that they can go to their local pharmacy and get a prescription filled with little or no hassle.

The Supreme Court has undoubtedly lurched toward conservatism in the past 20 years, but death penalty cases have largely been an anomaly.

Employers that don't try to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace take heed. A jury in Queens, N.Y., this week awarded $15 million to a nurse who endured several years of unwanted sex talk, propositions and groping by a doctor that escalated to two sexual assaults against her in 2001.

You’ve probably had documents notarized, but did you know why? Is there really a purpose or benefit to having a document notarized?

If you slip and fall in a supermarket, the first thing to do is to get up carefully. Better yet, pull yourself together on the floor before you get up. What you do in the next few hours could make a difference in your chance of getting compensation from the supermarket for any injury.

Whether you kept accurate records throughout 2008 or just tossed your pay stubs and receipts into a shoebox, be advised that it’s time to impress Uncle Sam again with another timely and accurate tax filing. April 15th is just around the corner.

Any disputes regarding the provisions of services under this contract or the terms of this contract will be determined by arbitration in Tarrant County, Texas, pursuant to the Texas General Arbitrator Act V.T.C.A., Civil Practice and Remedies Code, §171.001 through §171.098.

Late one night in March 2004, Jonathan Rackard, a Washington County, Fla., deputy sheriff, stopped Jesse Buckley for speeding. Buckley began sobbing and would not sign the traffic citation. Failure to sign the citation subjected Buckley to arrest, so Rackard handcuffed him without resistance and moved him toward the patrol car.

Rising unemployment rates have resulted in new federal legislation aimed at assisting those affected by the recession.  Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is designed to help people who are out of work due to the economic crisis currently facing this country.

Judges don’t get up in the morning to fix legislative mistakes. They’ll take their best shot at what the word “reasonable” means in a particular context, but for the most part, you can’t ask them to pretend, for example, that the word “more” is the word “less” just because legislators have written an extraordinarily bad law if it says “less.”

Each state has its own Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (”DWI”) statute, each of which may define the elements of the crime differently. For example, in New York, pursuant to the Vehicle and Traffic Law, one may be convicted of a DWI, a very serious criminal offense, if he “operate[s] a motor vehicle” while legally intoxicated.

There comes a moment when the view of an unpopular law crosses the line to embarrassing; when the thinking behind it has been so thoroughly repudiated that its defense becomes awkward. In a world where so many children are being raised by so many gay parents, Florida’s law entirely banning adoption by gay parents slides closer to this line every year.

Imagine yourself shopping at a discount store. You're there to pick up, say, paper towels. Your 4-year-old, however, desperately wants a little necklace with a princess on it, which costs a dollar. Maybe you buy it; maybe you don't. But how much time do you spend wondering whether the necklace contains lead?

If it's been a few years since you saw Footloose, you might have lost track of the battle against sexy dancing, but it roared back to life recently when a Pennsylvania dance instructor was denied a permit for her dance studio because she wanted to teach pole dancing.

Think about the last time you ate food that other people had recently touched. Fast-food cooks, grocery store clerks, baristas — whoever. How confident are you that these people weren't sick?

The best there ever was and the best there ever will be cannot begin to describe the phenomenon that was Michael Jackson. For over three decades, Michael Jackson redefined the meaning of the word superstar.

There's something to be said for not doing things that don't make a lick of sense. Don't stick a fork in a toaster, don't thump a bees' nest with a broomstick and don't strip-search a 13-year-old girl because a classmate identifies her as a supplier of Advil.

In March, a Texas Court of Appeals issued its decision in Sanders v. State of Texas. In that case, Sanders was convicted of killing Angela Alex and her unborn child. He was convicted based on a Texas law that prohibits intentionally causing the death of an “individual,” and defines “individual” as including “an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.”

The Bay of Pigs Invasion. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Trade Embargo. These are all major footnotes in the nearly five decades of virtually non-existent relations between the United States and Cuba; however, that all appears to be changing.

Summertime is full of water parks, theme parks, amusement parks — and sometimes death and injury. It seems that more and more accidents or mishaps are taking place worldwide within the amusement industry.

In the nearly eight years since Richard Hatch became the first winner of Survivor, he has done a variety of things. He appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and The Howard Stern Show; he was on Hollywood Squares and Entertainment Tonight.

The majority of states have laws providing that marriages are only recognized when created with a marriage license and official marriage ceremony. Such laws are very important because many rights depend on the existence of a valid marriage.

A recent suit filed by American Airlines brings into question Google’s use of searchable keywords used for sponsored links. American is suing Google for selling trademarked terms to other companies.

The suit is the first of its kind in the nation. Currently, the law does not impose any legal duty on a person to stop buying alcohol for a drinking companion nor to care for the drinking companion. The Jax case raises many questions, including what duty one friend has to another when buying alcohol.

The New York Times Magazine’s column “The Ethicist” featured a question from a reader regarding a new practice by her physician. The patient was asked to sign a waiver of her right to sue the physician and accept binding arbitration of any dispute.

When a police chief announces that he's going to take a stand against saggy pants, he makes himself an easy target. Doesn't he have anything, you know, important to do?

Charles Chatman has spent the last 27 years in prison, having been convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison in 1981 at the age of 20. Now 47, Chatman is expected to be released, making him the 15th person in Dallas County to be wrongfully convicted and then exonerated by DNA testing since 2001.

With the high-profile arrest and conviction of the NFL's Michael Vick, more people than ever are aware of the illegality of dogfighting. And now, the issue is coming before the United States Supreme Court...sort of.

Twelve jurors in a Reno, Nev., trial found that pharmaceutical giant Wyeth’s hormone-replacement therapy drugs caused breast cancer in the three Nevada women who brought the lawsuit.

One of the most fascinating areas of First Amendment jurisprudence concerns whether public school (K-12) officials can punish students for off-campus, online expression.  The headlines inform us on a weekly, if not daily, basis of school administrators punishing students for offensive, obnoxious, inappropriate or disturbing expression posted online.

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