At least 28 people have been injured after a tram derailed and flipped over in the Portuguese capital during Friday evening rush hour, Portuguese emergency services have reported. The electric vehicle derailed in the Lapa district of Lisbon at around 6:00pm, at a curve at the base of a steep hill, before striking a building […]
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At least 3 people killed when a truck carrying passengers in cargo bed overturns while fleeing from Border Patrol
Google Maps At least three people are dead and multiple people are injured in a rollover crash that involved a chase with Border Patrol. A truck was reportedly carrying passengers in the cargo bed when it crashed. 3 people had major injuries and 5 other had minor injuries, Cal Fire San Diego said. One of […]
Thalidomide class action in Canada to proceed as Federal Court overturns ruling
Thalidomide survivors have won the go-ahead to challenge a compensation program with a class proceeding.
Judge overturns $417M verdict over Johnson & Johnson baby powder
Enlarge / Johnson’s baby powder, stocked at a supermarket shelf in Alhambra, California. (credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) A judge has thrown out a $ 417 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson, which came about when a jury sided with a terminally ill plaintiff who said that Johnson’s baby powder caused her ovarian cancer. On Friday, […]
Judge overturns $417M award against Johnson & Johnson in ovarian cancer case
A judge in Los Angeles has tossed out a $ 417-million US jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene. CBC | Health News
38, mostly children, injured as tour bus overturns in northern Turkey (PHOTOS)
Published time: 16 Jul, 2017 11:31 Dozens of passengers, most of them children from Georgia, were injured after a Bulgaria-bound tour bus veered off the road in northern Turkey, the state-run news agency and local media report. The bus, which was carrying around 38 passengers – including members of a Georgian children’s dance band – […]
Supreme Court overturns Lexmark’s patent win on used printer cartridges
Enlarge / Lexmark printer cartridges in a Staple’s store in New York. (credit: Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The US Supreme Court voted 7-1 to place more limits on the rights of patent-holders, striking down a decision by the nation’s top patent court for the second time in two weeks. In Impression Products v. Lexmark International, the justices’ […]
Judge overturns life sentences for D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo
Davis Turner/Reuters A federal judge on Friday tossed out life prison terms for one of two men convicted in a deadly Washington, area shooting spree, saying he must be re-sentenced in light of a US Supreme Court ruling, the Washington Post reported. Lee Boyd Malvo, 32, was one of two men found guilty in the […]
Judge overturns life sentence of DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo
Published time: 26 May, 2017 23:24 Lee Boyd Malvo’s life sentence for his involvement in the 2002 DC sniper attacks has been overturned by a federal court because he was only 17 years old at the time of his arrest. The ruling is based on a 2016 decision by the US Supreme Court. On Friday, […]