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May 7 – Tornado outbreak of May 6–10, 2024: A FedEx warehouse in Portage, is destroyed by a tornado. [5] May 27 – A teenager is killed and six other people are injured in a shooting in downtown Lansing. [6] May 30 – The third human case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States is found in a dairy worker in Michigan. [7]
A 2017 report highlighted that although African Americans form 13% of the American population, they accounted for 47% of the exonerations on the Registry. To which must be added most of the 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in "group exonerations".
The federal law giving federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a), does not deprive state courts of the authority to hear a state law claim alleging legal malpractice in an underlying patent case. Henderson v. United States: 11-9307: 2013-02-20
However, more recent research from the U.S. Department of Justice has found that median medical malpractice awards in states range from $109,000 to $195,000. [ 28 ] These critics assert that these rate increases are causing doctors to go out of business or move to states with more favorable tort systems. [ 29 ]
The attorney is prevented from contracting for a price that he feels is fair. As a practical effect, fewer attorneys are willing to take medical malpractice cases. Regulation also has emboldened malpractice insurance carriers to take cases all the way to trial, instead of settling the cases, because their potential exposure is capped.
Michigan 1994 A medical doctor advocates for assisted suicide and the right to die. Robert Latimer: Canada Saskatchewan: 1993 A man euthanizes his child who has lived for years in pain. Karen Ann Quinlan case: United States New Jersey 1976 A 21-year-old girl is in a persistent vegetative state. Her parents wish to remove her from artificial ...
Personal injury cases represent the most common type of lawsuits filed in United States federal district courts, representing 25.5 percent of cases filed in 2015. [24] Personal injury claims represent a considerably smaller percentage of cases filed in state courts. For example, in Illinois, tort claims represent approximately 7% of the civil ...
Grace was ordered to be set free by the Michigan Court of Appeals on July 31, 78 days after her initial incarceration. [5] She was released the same day. When Grace was released, she was still on probation. [8] The prosecutor's office submitted a statement of support for the ruling. Grace and her mother released a statement, thanking supporters ...