A Merrill Lynch & Co. "London Fog" down-filled jacket caught fire and burned a man to death, the Estate of David Douglas Dwyer claims in Morris County Court, N.J.
ChoicePoint Workplace Solutions cost a man a job by falsely reporting that he had been convicted of felony drug charges, promised to correct the false report, promised that it had corrected it, but it had not, costing him another job, Eddie Garcia says. He demands punitive damages for defamation, fraud, negligence and slander of credit, in Bexar County Court, San Antonio.
A student claims in Bronx County Court that he was driven to try to commit suicide by Owen Carman's repeated homosexual assaults at the Meadowmont School of Music, where Carman was a teacher.
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