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The Bloody Vibrator Suit

The title says it all.  SF Weekly: A Northern California woman is suing Pipedream Products, which manufactures sex toys, claiming her experience with her dildo was anything but pleasurable. According to the claim filed in Yreka, …



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Pill Turns Man Into Gay Gambler

In perhaps one of the most bizzare products liaiblity cases we’ll see in some time, Didier Jambart of France is suing GlaxoSmithKline over the company’s Parkinson’s drug, Requip (ropinirole), The 51-year-old’s lawyers say their client’s…




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Discussing Quan v. Cusson and Grant v. Torstar

The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Young Lawyers Division has an interesting article by Karen Perron of Merovitz Potechin LLP discussing an event they held with Wendy Wagner of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and Ron Caza…


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Georgian Luger Dies as Olympics Commence…

I am going to start this off by saying it is with a sense of sadness that I write this piece. Twenty-one year old Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili, died in a training run today at…


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Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants – Redux

Aimee Green of The Oregonian reports, An attorney for Aurora Hill filed suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon — stirring memories of a controversial 1994 suit in which a jury awarded $2.86 million…




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Exclusive school accused of coverup

Prep school sued in sex case A lawsuit accuses an exclusive Ottawa prep school of refusing to make a sexual assault complaint to police after a 16-year-old boy was allegedly attacked by fellow students during…