Gunning for change

Article Abstract:

Ltigation by municipalities against the firearms industry based on a public nuisance theory is discussed. About 30 suits have been brought, and similar theories have failed in other court tests, with the courts holding that the municipalities were only indirect victims of gun violence.

Small Arms Manufacturing, Small Arms, Cases, Product liability, Firearms, Products liability, Firearms industry, Firearms industry and trade, Nuisances, Nuisance

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Filling a need; lawyers are drilling home the point that dentists who won't treat HIV patients may be practicing the most pervasive discrimination of all

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Plaintiffs lawyers state that discrimination by health care professionals, especially dentists, is the most common kind of discrimination suffered by those with HIV or AIDS. The US Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit gave an HIV-positive plaintiff who displayed no symptoms of AIDS but was refused treatment by a dentist summary judgment in the Mar 1997 ruling of Bragdon v. Abbott. The Abbott ruling spreads at least a symbolic federal civil rights umbrella over those with HIV.Other HIV-related suits under the ADA are listed.

Discrimination against AIDS virus carriers, HIV carriers discrimination

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Turning pro se; the number of unrepresented litigants is growing, but few courts have developed policies in response

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Pro se representation is increasing, and this trend has led to unease among judges and other court employees. A study by the American Judicature Society states that the legal profession must provide rules on when court staffers can help pro se litigants, and that these areas must be separated from rules defining the unauthorized practice of law. Moreover, clerks should receive immunity from civil liability for such work.

Pro se representation

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