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November 15, 1999 |

Pilot-Lawyers Balance Risk, Convenience

Attorney Jay D. Bennett first thought of piloting a plane while trying to get to a hearing in Sylvester, Ga. The options: a four hour drive from Atlanta to the Southern Georgia town, or an hour flight from Atlanta International Airport to Tallahassee, Fla., and then a two-hour road trip in a rented car. Bennett chose neither. Instead, he called a flight school and said he wanted his first flying lesson en route to the hearing. His second lesson was during the flight back.
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April 04, 2001 |

Red Cross Fends Off 'Fear of HIV' Suit

Although the Red Cross conceded it had provided blood from a donor it should have rejected as a high risk for HIV, it won a summary judgment in a Georgia suit alleging negligence and infliction of emotional distress. The plaintiff was required to show the blood had in fact exposed her to HIV, even though the transfusion was potentially tainted with Group O HIV, which cannot be detected by current tests.
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July 26, 2002 |

Georgia Supreme Court to Decide Blood Bank, Med-Mal Issues

The Georgia Supreme Court has taken up two malpractice matters that could affect the practice of medicine. The court has agreed to settle a dispute over a plaintiff's burden of proof in medical malpractice cases and also will decide whether the American Red Cross can be held liable for distributing blood that did not conform to its HIV-screening procedures.
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February 23, 2010 |

Phila. Jury Awards $9.5 Mil. in HRT Trial

Another Philadelphia jury has decided that drugmaker Wyeth should be punished with punitive damages for the warnings provided to a plaintiff and her doctor over the risk of breast cancer from Wyeth's hormonal drug Prempro.
4 minute read
May 08, 2000 |

Scholar Questions City Traffic Court Constitutionality

Atlanta's busy Traffic Court could be in deep trouble. In fact, the very existence of the court may be unconstitutional, according to a new legal analysis just published in the Georgia State University Law Review. The author, Edward C. Brewer III, assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, contends all non-traffic misdemeanor convictions since 1988 and possibly all convictions obtained in City Court since 1996 are void.
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January 29, 2013 |

Survey Says Outliers Helped Push Large Law Firm Revenue Up 5 Percent in 2012

An early look at how some of the nation's largest law firms fared financially last year finds that despite a range of results, the industry as a whole enjoyed its biggest year-over-year gains since 2008, according to a survey by Wells Fargo Private Bank's Legal Specialty Group.
4 minute read
October 22, 2009 |

Blue-Ribbon Commission Urges Repeal of Military's Ban on Sodomy

A military law commission is calling for the end of the U.S. armed services' decades-old sodomy prohibition, finding the ban invites arbitrary enforcement and may be unconstitutional. In a report released Tuesday, the Commission on Military Justice -- a panel of former judges, law professors and military experts -- called the ban on consensual sodomy unnecessary and recommended its repeal. The commission was created in January by the National Institute of Military Justice and the American Bar Association.
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W.Va. Jury Sides with CSX in Long-Running RICO Suit Against Asbestos Lawyers
Publication Date: 2012-12-21
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A company once besieged with asbestos claims has turned the tables on the law firm that represented its accusers.

March 08, 2000 |

Pogo'S Wymer Heading for King and Spalding

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February 28, 2013 |

School lawyers question protection of schools

Bills designed to protect public schools from liability so they will be more willing to share fields and gyms for kids' sports leagues have run into surprising opposition: lawyers for the schools. Phillip Hartley (above) said the bills reframe the question of schools' sovereign immunity.
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