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Lawsuits over faulty hips settled
Ohio company to pay recipients of artificial joints
The medical manufacturer that recalled 40,000 faulty artificial hips in December 2000 — thousands of them already implanted in patients — has agreed to pay damages to settle law suits, attorneys announced.
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Legal fight over redistricting focuses on name-calling
The state court trial over congressional redistricting opened with lawyers representing state Democrats and Republicans laying out their cases.
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Pump failure implicated in plane crashes
Vacuum pumps, which power cockpit instruments in small airplanes, have contributed to at least 82 deaths in 36 crashes since 1980, including a 1998 crash in New Orleans that killed three Denton County residents, safety reports indicate.
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Prominent Couple Honored with Hospital District Foundation’s First Humanitarian Award
About 300 friends and supporters of the Harris County Hospital District celebrated a Jubilee of Caring Gala Dinner on Nov. 8.
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Liability of Silence
A Houston attorney leading the charge against Ford and Firestone knew there was a problem, but couldn’t talk
Beating big corporations with big verdicts made Richard Mithoff one of the country’s best known product liability attorneys.
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Files on tires’ recall must be disclosed in suit, judge rules
Data between Ford, Firestone included
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. has to publicly disclose documents related to its recall of some tires that have been blamed for vehicle crashes, a judge in Houston ruled.
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Texas Lawyer: the ticker
Public Citizen Inc. wants the court to turn down a request from Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone-Firestone Inc. for a protective order that would keep documents in a tire-tread suit private. Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest group founded by Ralph Nader, filed the amicus curiae brief in a suit filed in state court by a Crosby woman who was injured in an accident in 1999 in a Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone tires.