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April 29, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Barnyard Brawl

When Dolly the sheep made her public debut in 1997 as the world`s first cloned animal, scientists at the University of Massachusetts and DeForest, Wis.-based Infigen Inc. didn`t see much that was new.
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April 09, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Alimony Reform Proposal Proves To Be Controversial

Former Supreme Court Justice C. Ian McLachlan and prominent family law practitioners are taking on Connecticut's 40-year-old alimony statute.
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January 11, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Consumer Concerns At Top Of Lawmaker's Agenda

Policies on returning damaged merchandise. Rules regarding cable companies making changes to a customer's contract. Tweaks to the state's liquor laws. Those are some of the issues that may soon be facing Democratic state Rep. David A. Baram, a Bloomfield-based lawyer, who was recently named co-chair of the state legislature's General Law Committee.
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March 15, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State Supreme Court Weighs Whether Mentally Ill Can Consent To Sado-Masochistic Sex

Kendall Kortner encountered Craig L. Martise in an Internet chatroom. The sexual relationship between them is now at the heart of a case over whether Kortner's consent was legal.
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March 03, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Robert Byron Commentary: Troubling Treatment Of The Mentally Ill

Here's something to think about: On Nov. 6, 2006, the iNew England Journal of Medicine/iran an article entitled "Violence and Mental Illness - How Strong Is the Link?" Richard A. Friedman, M.D., addressed the "controversial question about the potential danger posed by people with mental illness." His conclusion: while the evidence indicates that persons with a serious mental illness present a greater risk of violence over a lifetime than people without a disorder - 16 percent to 7 percent, according to the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study by the National Institute of Mental Health - persons treated at a mental health facility and then released "showed no difference in the risk of violence" from people in the community without a disorder.
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December 20, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Punitive Damages At Issue In UPS Worker's Case

ibMichael Tomick v. United Parcel Service, et al:/b/i A Superior Court judge has eliminated $500,000 in punitive damages from a verdict awarded to a United Parcel Service worker who claimed that the courier company had wrongly fired him.
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February 12, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

No Vanishing Act For Newspaper

There`s a joke about the three naked children who silently tiptoed around the dinner table at their parents` party. The very proper guests, who didn`t know where to look, pretended to utterly ignore them until they`d slipped noiselessly from the room. The mother excused herself, went upstairs and confronted the now giggling trio. We covered ourselves with your vanishing cream, exclaimed one, And it worked!
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April 23, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Medicare Advocates' Fees Reduced

The specialized expertise of the attorneys who won a declaratory judgment benefiting Medicare recipients receiving home health care was not enough to justify a higher hourly rate.
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October 26, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Underground Mines Bring Legal Issues To Surface

In August 2005, Bill and Lisa Baker, along with their 2-year-old son, moved into a new home in Cheshire. Roughly two months later, a 30-foot deep, 20-foot wide sinkhole developed in their backyard.
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April 30, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

What`s Panning Out, After The Gold Rush?

One of the earliest stops for a tech entrepreneur in search of funding is Connecticut Innovations, Inc., the Rocky Hill-based quasi-public fund that has given many of the state`s startups an initial boost.
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