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China milk scandal hits Japan firm, Taiwan victims...

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Protecting patient privacy the new fashioned way...

Posted in by admin on Thu, 2008-09-25 18:05

INDIANAPOLIS Protecting patient privacy has been recognized as the duty of health-care providers for about as long as doctors have seen patients. In 1996 that duty became a legal obligation when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

HIPAA regulations safeguard patient's personal health information but can also complicate the process of safeguarding publ...

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The Judge Says: Don't Get Pregnant. A Lapsed Law Now Sees New Life...

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Officer drank at 'shift party' before wreck...

Posted in by admin on Wed, 2008-09-24 18:05

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Severn By SCOTT DAUGHERTY, Staff Writer Published September 24, 2008

BEL AIR - Shortly before he fatally slammed into an SUV on Interstate 95, an off-duty Anne Arundel County police officer got drunk at an "after-shift party" with as many as 10 comrades, according to state police testimony ...

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Painful Lessons: Students Face Corporal Punishment...

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Dave Savini CHICAGO (CBS) ― It is against the law in Illinois for a teacher or coach to hit a student. But CBS 2 Investigaor Dave Savini reports student athletes at Simeon Career Academy faced corporal punishment for...

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Remembering former federal judge Harold Barefoot Sanders...

Posted in by admin on Tue, 2008-09-23 18:05

It might be hard to take a judge named "Barefoot" seriously.

But it wasn't, for the thousands of Texans who knew and admired former federal judge, Harold Barefoot Sanders.

Sanders died on Sunday at his home at the age of 83.

He was a man who treated big people and little people with the same dignity.

Sanders was appointed a U.S. attorney by John Kennedy in 1961.

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Hoyt Heading Up Treasury's Legal Offense...

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It's 7 a.m. on Sept. 18, and Robert Hoyt, general counsel at the Treasury Department and the busiest lawyer in Washington, sounds chipper as he barrels through the laundry list of crises he's helped manage during the last several weeks.

He's praising his team, running down some of the nuts and bolts of the work he's handl...

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Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders symbolized civil rights...

Posted in by admin on Mon, 2008-09-22 08:05

Legendary U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr., who oversaw the desegregation of Dallas schools, directed the overhaul of state schools for mentally disabled people and served as a legislative counsel to President Lyndon Johnson, died Sunday at his Dallas home after battling an infection. He was 83.

Presidents confided in him, federal judges leaned on his wisdom, and family mem...

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Prominent Lawyer Garcia Dies...

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TAMPA - William F. Garcia's interests ran the gamut, including homemade Christmas ornaments. But perhaps he was best known for his role in local Democratic politics.

A lawyer, Garcia was a rising star in the Democratic Party in the 1960s, at one point resigning from his job as assistant attorney general in Hillsborough County to manage the gub...

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Charity's chief resigns under a cloud...

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Associated Press Published: Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 11:58 a.m. MDT 0 comments E-MAIL FONT The top executive of a Utah-based children's charity resigned on Friday, the same day he was in court on felony charges related to his insurance business.

James Larry Hall II, 37, was replaced by a board that said it didn't learn of his legal troubles until Wednesday, even though the charges were f...

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