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When you are facing a serious legal issue, you need to find someone who can represent your case efficiently and successfully. You are likely already very stressed and even scared, but you need to take the time to make sure that you are choosing the right person to represent you in your time of need. There are a few things to do to make sure that you are hiring the best lawyer to represent you: 1.) Choose someone who is within your price range. It can be tempting to try to hire the first firm that you find in the phone book, but you need to take the time to figure out how much this will cost you. You do not want to run out […]

The poisoning of Flint’s drinking water supply was especially harmful for inmates housed there in the county jail, a new lawsuit alleges. The federal suit, filed Monday on behalf of more than 90 former prisoners in the Genesee County Jail in Flint, alleges prisoners were forced to continue drinking tap water even after officials knew about the lead contamination. The suit also alleges bottled water was withheld from inmates even when brought to the jail by concerned family members and other donors, that when bottled water was made available it was rationed in insufficient quantities, and that the jail instead charged prisoners a premium to buy bottled water from the commissary. Because they were jailed, “plaintiffs could not travel to an area and/or municipality which had uncontaminated water,” […]

Type 2 diabetes is a condition that results in high blood glucose levels being present in the body. It is characterized by the body’s inability to use or produce enough insulin. Diabetes can be carefully managed in many cases with a combination of lifestyle changes and medication. One medication which claims to be beneficial to those living with type 2 diabetes is Invokana.   Invokana (Canagliflozin) is an oral medication that lowers blood glucose levels in the body by filtering it out through urine. The drug was first approved in the U.S. in 2013. While it was once marketed as an innovative treatment option, it is now clear that Invokana is not quite as positively ground-breaking as it first appeared. In May 2015, the U.S. […]

A city police officer acting as a security guard didn’t do his job and more than two dozen of his colleagues failed in their duties or violated the civil rights of surviving victims after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre, according to a new federal lawsuit. The gunman, Omar Mateen, was shot dead by police after killing 49 people and wounding 58 at Pulse nightclub in what was then the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Orlando police officer Adam Gruler, according to court papers filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, “was at Pulse at all pertinent times and was charged with providing security to Pulse. Instead, he abandoned his post, thereby allowing [the] shooter to not only enter the club once to scout […]