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• Have You Had Your Daily Dose of Arsenic Today? You May Have if You Had a Protein Shake

  Jessica Agnelly | February 15, 2011 4:29 PM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO

  An interesting Consumer Reports project found last year that three servings a day of particular protein drinks could result in daily exposure to arsenic, cadmium, or lead exceeding the limits...

• Why Tea Partiers & Conservatives Should Oppose Federal Law Limiting Health Care Lawsuits

  Andrew Cochran | February 14, 2011 10:46 PM | 1 CommentVoices

  This week, the House Judiciary Committee will continue deliberations on H.R. 5, officially titled the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011, which is identical...

• Is Georgia's New $100 Charge For Roadside Memorials A Good Or Bad Idea?

  M. Brandon Smith | February 14, 2011 8:18 PM | 1 CommentAtlanta, GA

  The death of a loved one is tragic. People find different ways to cope with that tragedy. One method is to create homemade roadside memorials to commemorate a loved one’s life. For a long time...

• UIM Insurance - Here's Why You Need It

  Mike Myers | February 14, 2011 3:50 PM | 1 CommentSeattle, WA

  Local papers are filled with stories about hit-and-run accidents. Drivers leave accident scenes for a variety of reasons. Usually, it’s because they’re high on drugs, drunk or...

• Showing dog owners' negligence after an animal attack

  Doug Landau | February 14, 2011 11:15 AM | 1 CommentFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Another avenue that may enable an injured victim to recover for a dog attack in Virginia is to prove that the owner of the dog was in violation of a leash law or another ordinance or rule that is...

• Public Justice Seeks Justice for Sikh

  Rob Sachs | February 13, 2011 2:13 PM | 1 CommentVoices

  At the recent AAJ convention, I had a chance to meet Surjit Singh Saund, who is a client of Public Justice. Public Justice and two co-counsel law firms recently filed a civil rights suit on behalf...

• Winter Weather and Big Trucks: Ignoring Regulations Puts Motorist Safety on Thin Ice

  John Lowery | February 12, 2011 4:11 AM | 1 CommentNashville, TN

  A sometimes guilty pleasure is the reality show Ice Road Truckers, which details some of the more treacherous highway adventures of truckers along a highway built atop frozen tundra in Canada's...

• Removal of Damages Caps Bill Advancing

  Linda Chalat | February 11, 2011 5:35 PM | 1 CommentDenver, CO

  A mother has made it her mission to make drunk drivers pay for the pain their accidents may cause. She’s backing a bill that would put anyone convicted of a DUI on the hook not only for their...

• Oklahoma Tea Party Group Blasts Oklahoma State Senator for Tort Immunity Bills

  Jeremy Thurman | February 10, 2011 10:52 PM | 1 CommentOklahoma City, OK

  A local tea party group called Oklahomans for Liberty has gone on the offensive against State Chamber charlatan State Senator Anthony Sykes and the Oklahoma Republican Establishment. As a...

• Metallosis: One danger of DePuy hip implant failure

  Lawrence Egerton | February 10, 2011 4:36 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC

  One of the complications that patients with a defective DePuy Orthopaedics hip implant may face is metallosis, a condition in which metal particles build up in the tissue around the implanted joint....