Thursday, March 09, 2006

"mesothelioma lawyer" - Dying asbestos victims fear new court challenge


Dying asbestos victims fear new court challenge
Observer - A landmark legal challenge starts in the House of Lords on 13 March in an attempt to limit payouts for the most deadly form of asbestos-related cancer. Employers hope to overturn existing law by arguing that the cost of compensating mesothelioma

Rensselaer man gets prison for Clean Air Act violation
Empire State News - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced Friday that Bradford Hall, 34, of 1 Rose Lane, Rensselaer, NY, was sentenced in United States District Court in Syracuse, NY to eight months in federal prison. In 2000, Hall

Speak Out Editorial on Cheney s aim hit the mark
Anniston Star - You have certainly said more in one editorial than all the major newspapers in the almost three years of the Bush-Cheney War. Fort Bragg, Calif. Nice little editorial on Veep Cheney, and the media attention paid to the shooting of a lawyer (some joke

Deadly : 250 rescue workers 'trained in asbestos'
News.com.au - AT least 250 of New South Wales's elite emergency workers have been told they could die from exposure to lethal levels of asbestos during anti-terrorist training drills. The personnel at risk include members of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) unit

Workers 'exposed to asbestos'
News.com.au - AT least 250 NSW emergency workers have been told they could die from exposure to asbestos following anti-terrorist training at a western Sydney army barracks. Personnel at risk, including members of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) unit, were told

Man Made Aids
Political Gateway - In 2006 the AIDS epidemic will be a quarter-century old. Officially starting in June 1981 as a mysterious and fatal disease exclusively found in several dozen young white gay men from New York City and Los Angeles, the disease has now killed 20