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MILLION SETTLEMENT REACHED IN PRIEST
ABUSE CASE - HIGHEST SETTLEMENT EVER
OBTAINED IN CONNECTICUT
November 18, 2005, by News Channel 8's Alan Cohn
He's accused of sexually
molesting a former altar boy. Now,
years later, Father Daniel McSheffery
is being forced to answer to those
allegations.
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SALE OF FIRM'S
ASSETS PROPOSED – RECEIVER
ACTING IN WAKE OF JULY CRASH
December 24, 2005, Hartford Courant,
by David Owens
Trucks and other equipment owned by
American Crushing & Recycling would
be auctioned in February to pay off
debts and prevent erosion of assets
due to interest and other payments
under a plan presented to a judge Friday.
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LEEANA'S LAST
DAY – HOW INCOMPETENCE
AND NEGLECT LED TO A TODDLER'S DEATH
AT A STATE-FUNDED GROUP HOME
December 18, 2005, Hartford Courant,
by Kevin Rennie
Leeana Calendario might have died of
any of the complex and chronic illnesses
she developed as an infant. Instead,
13 days short of her third birthday,
Leeana died of something quite ordinary
- respiratory failure as a result of
a clogged breathing tube.
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BOMB THREAT DOESN'T
SHAKE TENACIOUS ROOKIE – IN FIRST
APPEARANCE BEFORE CONN. HIGH COURT,
LAWYER SEEKS NEW CAUSE OF ACTION
December 12, 2005, The CT Law
Tribune, by Thomas B. Scheffey
Michael L. Oh, a junior associate at
New Haven, Conn.-based Stratton Faxon,
already had plenty of reasons to be
nervous Dec. 2. It was his first time
arguing a case before the state Supreme
Court, and he was asking the justices
to break new ground by recognizing
a tort cause of action in Connecticut
against litigants who destroy evidence.
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BOY’S FAMILY SEEKS SOURCE OF
DRUGS
October 29, 2005, New Haven Register,
by Brian McCready
The attorney for the
family of a Stratford teen who died
of an OxyContin overdose in June said
Friday his clients plan to file a civil
lawsuit against a doctor that he claims
is ultimately responsible for overprescribing
the drug.
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TRUCKING COMPANY
TAKEOVER
October 15, 2005, Former Owner of
American Crushing & Recycling
Is Arrested.
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JUDGE PLACES TRUCKING FIRM
IN RECEIVERSHIP
October 4, 2005, Hartford Courant, by
David Owens and Daniel P. Jones
A superior court judge today ordered
American Crushing & Recycling into
receivership and appointed a Bridgeport
lawyer to oversee company operations
and protect its assets.
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WIDOW SUES DUMP
TRUCK OWNER IN AVON CRASH – STATE
ALSO PUT ON NOTICE OVER ROUTE 44 SAFETY
September 24, 2005,
Hartford Courant, by Daniel P. Jones,
David Owens and Christopher Keating
The estate of
a father of five young girls killed
in the fiery July 29 crash at the base
of Avon Mountain has sued the Bloomfield
company whose dump truck caused the
accident - the first lawsuit seeking
to freeze assets of American Crushing & Recycling
and its principals.
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JUSTICE FOR WOODY – YEARS AFTER THEY SHOT HIM DEAD IN CHURCH, THE POLICE WHO KILLED ROBERT WOODWARD MAY FACE A JURY – SOON
September 1, 2005 Valley Advocate, by Eesha Williams
Robert Woodward: Justice delayed, perhaps not denied. "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." Thomas Jefferson
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COURT MUST WEIGH EVIDENCE BEFORE DISMISSING SUIT BY WOODWARD'S KINFORMER NORWICH MAN KILLED BY POLICE AFTER WIELDING KNIFE AT CHURCH SERVICE IN VERMONT
August 25, 2005 New London Day, by Izaskun E. Larraneta, Day Staff Writer, Courts/Social Services
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ordered a lower court judge Tuesday to examine the evidence in the shooting death of Norwich native Robert “Woody” Woodward at the hands of police before flat-out dismissing a suit that claims his civil rights were violated.
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APPEALS COURT ORDERS JUDGE TO RETHINK CHURCH-SHOOTING DECISION
August 24, 2005 Court T.V., Boston Globe, L.A. Times & New York Newsday
by Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK --A federal appeals court has ordered a lower court judge to reconsider his decision to dismiss a lawsuit that claims police used excessive force in fatally shooting a knife-wielding man inside a Vermont church in 2001.
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JURY TRIAL SOUGHT IN CHURCH SHOOTING
August 5, 2005 Rutland Herald, by Daniel Barlow Southern Vermont Bureau
BRATTLEBORO - The family of a Bellows Falls man fatally shot in a church by police four years ago asked a New York City court Thursday to send their civil case to a jury trial.
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SUIT CLAIMS SEXUAL ABUSE
May 6, 2005 by Daniel P. Jones, Hartford Courant Staff Writer
A lawsuit filed in state court claims that a man who provided recreation programs for the children of faculty at Avon Old Farms School sexually abused two boys more than 30 years ago when they were 6 and 7.
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LAWYERS SEE BENEFITS IN BECOMING SPECIALISTS
February 27, 2005 by Cheryl Crabb, The Courant
The days of the all-purpose lawyer are fading fast. As laws become more complex, clients more sophisticated and pressures to build profits more intense, specialization has become the name of the game.
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DIOCESE SETTLES EX-ALTAR BOY’S SEX SUIT
February 10, 2005 by Daniel Tepfer, Connecticut Post
BRIDGEPORT- The Roman Catholic Diocese Thursday settled a lawsuit by a former Trumbull altar boy who claimed he was abused by the Rev. John Castaldo in the early 1990s.
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AFTER A NEW RULING, OWNERSHIP OF BILL OF RIGHTS COPY IS IN QUESTION AGAIN
January 27, 2005 by Ariel Hart, New York Times
ATLANTA, Jan. 26 - The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a district court's decision that had given ownership of an original copy of the Bill of Rights to the State of North Carolina. It said no actions before the lower court allowed it to decide ownership of the copy.
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BILL OF RIGHTS COPY IS BACK IN LIMBO
January 27, 2005 by Anne Blythe, Raleigh News and Observer Staff Writer
North Carolina's original copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights, a faded, hand-quilled parchment, might not be home to stay after all.
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BILL OF RIGHTS DISPUTE BACK IN COURT
January 27, 2005 by Joseph Straw, New Haven Register
WASHINGTON — High-profile Connecticut real estate developer Robert Matthews and the federal government are headed back to court over ownership of an original draft of the U.S. Bill of Rights that the state of North Carolina lost to a looter at the end of the Civil War.
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BILL OF RIGHTS BROADCAST COVERAGE
January 27, 2005 News 12 Connecticut.
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