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... found Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc. and Millennium Holdings LLC liable in 2006 for creating a public nuisance by manufacturing and selling a toxic product ... have been dismissed at the outset. It said that while lead paint was a public health problem in Rhode Island, it wasn't the companies' responsibility to clean it up because they ... overturned contempt sanctions and fines totaling $15,000 against Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch. Lynch was fined on two separate occasions, once ...

... s marketing of Neurontin comes from a former employee. David Franklin, who holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Rhode Island, left his job as a pediatric researcher at Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1996 to ... promotion of Zyvox, and in particular your unsubstantiated implied claims regarding its superiority to vancomycin, poses serious health and safety concerns." The agency ordered the company to stop the promotion. In response, Pfizer told the FDA it would ...

... lauds IP as 'oil of the 21st century': (IP finance) Greece Residents of Greek island of Lesbos seek to bar gay women from using the term 'lesbian': (IP ADR Blog), ... (Patent Librarian's Notebook), KSR retrospective: (PLI), Is the enablement bar too high for patents to meet?: (IP Law360), (Patent Prospector), US Supreme Court petition ... Wegner), Patently unfair: Biomedical Patent Management Corporation v California Dept of Health Services: (National Review) US Copyright New Orphaned Works Act would ...

... and pharma: (IPEG), Are compulsory patent licences the answer?: (Afro-IP), WHO 'World Health Statistics 2008': (Spicy IP), The Ranbaxy-Daiichi deal - an 'Ardhanarishwar' business model?: ... Singapore Treaty but 'until later decision, the Treaty will not be applied to the Faroe Islands or to Greenland': (Class 46) Estonia Estonian Board of Appeal finds Erdgas, Ergas ... Therapeutics Inc: (Class 46), After more than five year battle, High Court rules Zipher's patents invalid, cannot be amended: Zipher Ltd ...

... and then gave a date from January to June 2003. Id. With enough dressing to flavor a salad the size of Rhode Island, the defendant proceeded to change the dates on the bottles to May to July of 2004, and then resold the bottles to dollar stores ... Posner noted that there was no evidence that selling salad dressing after the "best when purchased by" date endangered human health, that any of the 1.6 million bottles had deteriorated, or that any purchaser of the dressing had ever complained about the ...

... Trust Planning Whether or not you are charitably inclined, if you own highly appreciated assets (such as real estate or stock) which produce a small return ... partnerships, irrevocable trusts and tax-neutral offshore trusts (eg. Cook Islands) or on-shore trusts (eg. Alaska, Delaware) to set aside a "nest egg" in case ... have not completed your estate plan, the foregoing techniques are important adjuncts to a basic plan consisting of a living trust or will, health care directive and power of attorney ...

... Brooklyn less than non-Hispanic workers and failed to promote them or provide health benefits because of their national origin (EEOC v. B & H Foto ... "Adelphi University of Garden City, N.Y., one of the largest universities on Long Island, has agreed to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal ... subjected female workers to a hostile work environment and then retaliated against a high-ranking female executive who had complained about the harassment against women. The EEOC says ...