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Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | Back issues
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Personal Injury

Sports doctor sex abuse

WILMINGTON, N.C. — A federal court in North Carolina granted a former North Carolina State University student’s motion to certify his civil rights lawsuit for appeal. He says the school covered for a sports medicine doctor who groomed and sexually abused him, and the court says a jury could reasonably conclude the university should have taken responsibility for the doctor’s behavior and was aware of it.

Mexico moves forward in gun sale suit

TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal court in Arizona dismissed the Mexican government’s racketeering, public nuisance and Consumer Fraud Act against five gun dealers, but allowed its claims for negligence, unjust enrichment and punitive damages to proceed. Mexico argues that these firearm businesses permit certain sales that systematically arm the drug cartels that smuggle guns from the U.S.

Broom a ‘dangerous weapon’

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a broom handle can be a dangerous weapon, as in this case, when a man broke a broom over his girlfriend’s head. Further, the lower court is allowed to convict the man of both second-degree assault and domestic assault, even though both convictions arose from this one act.

Jailer to pay for not helping inmate

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana ordered a correctional officer to pay $10,000 in compensatory damages, as well as $12,500 in attorney fees, to a prisoner who was burned and stabbed by another inmate while the guard watched. His failure to intervene or render aid afterwards constituted deliberate indifference in violation of the inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights.

Shooting nude man ‘unreasonable’

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana declined to dismiss an excessive force lawsuit against the city of Baton Rouge and the fire investigator who left his barber shop chair to confront a nude, intoxicated man who was hitting the city truck. The investigator shot the man, resulting in a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down; the man has sufficiently argued that this was not a reasonable exercise of force.

Fetus theft conviction upheld

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the jury’s conviction of a woman who killed a pregnant woman and cut her baby out of her to keep as her own, finding the convictions for first-degree murder, “extreme atrocity” and other crimes would not likely have changed if defendant’s counsel had called a cell phone expert on her behalf.

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