Dave Collins

September 19, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A fraternity can be sued in connection with a 2003 crash that killed four Yale University students, including two members of the school's baseball team, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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February 01, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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September 04, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. AP - A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter."It's a Shakespearean tragedy brought into the real world," Judge Richard Comerford said at the sentencing.

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January 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's lawyers have filed a new appeal of his murder conviction, claiming that police and prosecutors failed to provide them with evidence that pointed to another suspect and discredited a key state witness.The motion filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New Haven seeks a hearing and the setting of bail.

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May 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - Marsh McLennan Cos. Inc., the New York-based insurance broker and consulting firm, has agreed to pay $2.4 million to the state of Connecticut to settle claims of bid rigging, price fixing and receiving kickbacks.State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced the deal Wednesday, saying it settles his 2005 lawsuit against the firm.

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May 01, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Sony Music Entertainment has settled a lawsuit filed by a Connecticut lawyer who said record company executives retaliated against him for winning higher pay for gospel music artists.

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February 13, 2012 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected a second bid by Yale University to throw out all the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a South Korean university that claims it lost tens of millions of dollars after Yale damaged its reputation.Dongguk University claims in the 2008 lawsuit that it hired an art history professor after Yale wrongly confirmed the professor earned a doctorate at the New Haven school.

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March 20, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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May 21, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - A Connecticut environmental activist on Wednesday scored a significant legal victory in her fight over how the Millstone nuclear power complex manages its wastewater.The state Supreme Court unanimously decided to allow Nancy Burton to challenge the state process that led to a preliminary decision to allow Millstone to renew its wastewater discharge permit.

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February 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - A judge charged with drunken driving and videotaped using racial slurs while arguing with police officers was suspended without pay Monday for eight months by a judicial review panel.Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield, who was confirmed as Connecticut's first black female judge in 1991, apologized to the state Judicial Review Council.

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