Birmingham News (AL)
Bridge design a factor in lawsuit over car crash
Article written by: LIZ ELLABY, News Staff Writer
The design and safety of a Lorna Road interstate overpass have
become a target of a lawsuit by a Hoover teen hit by a car and
permanently disabled last summer as he walked along a bridge
spanning Interstate 459, according to court records and
attorneys in the case.
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Birmingham News (AL)
MAN HURT IN WRECK AWARDED $6 MILLION
Article written by: ROBERT K. GORDON, News Staff Writer
A Bessemer Cutoff jury has awarded a California man $6 million
as a result of a serious accident on Interstate 20/ 59.
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Birmingham News (AL)
INTERNET CELL-PHONE VENDOR SUED OVER REBATES CLASS ACTION SOUGHT
IN CASE FILED IN BIRMINGHAM
Article Written by: RUSSELL HUBBARD, News staff writer
THE COURTS
A disgruntled cell phone user has filed a lawsuit in U.S.
District Court in Birmingham, saying one of the largest Internet
sellers of wireless devices failed to follow through on promised
rebates.
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Birmingham News (AL)
COTTRELL, WILLIAMS CHARGES DROPPED
Article written by: STEVE KIRK, News staff writer
TUSCALOOSA - The NCAA has withdrawn allegations of unethical
conduct against
former University of Alabama assistant football coaches Ivy
Williams and Ronnie
Cottrell and has reduced a charge involving the recruitment of
2000 signee Albert
Means.
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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL (NM)
AMOCO LOSES GAS-WELL CASE
Article written by: Scott Sandlin Journal Staff Writer
Families Allege Water Pollution
A federal jury awarded a total of $500,000 in damages Thursday
to six San Juan County families who claimed Amoco Production and
Meridian Oil had polluted their water supply by improperly
drilling natural gas wells. The jury found all damages were
caused by Amoco, not Meridian, which has since been taken over
by Burlington Resources.
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www.Tidesports.com
Article published on: August 23, 2007
NCAA clears Ivy Williams
TUSCALOOSA / The NCAA has cleared former University of Alabama
assistant football coach Ivy Williams of wrongdoing in the
recruitment of Memphis prep player Albert Means, but the
university still faces charges that Means’ coach was paid by a
UA booster.
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The Anniston Star (AL)
FAULTY BURIAL LEADS TO LAWSUIT
Article written by: Jason Landers, Star Staff Writer
Survivors of the Rev. Oscar Cotton are suing Forestlawn
Mausoleum and Gray Brown-Service Mortuary, as well as the
corporation that owns the companies, for what the lawsuit
describes as “atrocious and utterly intolerable” conduct.
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The Anniston Star (AL)
MORTUARY LOSES DESECRATION RULING APPEAL
Article written by: Jenny Cromie
The Alabama Supreme Court upheld a $2 million judgment against
Gray Brown-Service Mortuary on Friday, stemming from a lawsuit
accusing the funeral home of desecrating an Anniston woman’s
body.
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more
Sumter County Record Journal (AL)
SUMTER JURY AWARDS $5 MILLION RECORD VERDICT IN DIXIE OIL SUIT
A Sumter County jury awarded a record setting settlement of
$5,000,000 to an 80 year-old great grandmother in Cuba.
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The Dothan Eagle (AL)
FORMER POULTRY FARMER SUES CONAGRA
Article written by: Lee Ann Smith, Eagle Staff Writer
ELBA – A Dale County man who alleges a Coffee County poultry
processing plant retaliated against him for not signing a
contract with an arbitration clause in it is taking the company
to court.
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