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  Illinois is the only state with a total ban on allowing gun owners to carry their weapons in public. But a federal court recently threw out this law as going too far, and violating the Second Amendment. Now, the Illinois legislature has a looming deadline to pass a concealed carry weapon statute that’s less restrictive. With the strong emotional differences in the fight over guns, state lawmaking has become a house divided. Lawyers.com supervising producer John McCarthy’s presents the …

A couple has won an $12 million verdict against their South Florida condo association and management company for not following regulations that could have prevented the death of their son who was killed while riding his bike in the complex. Andrew Curtis was riding his bike with his father on the Jupiter, Fla., condo premises of Villas on the Green, when the 9-year-old was hit by a car driven by another condo resident, Helen Bygel. Everyone agreed that Bygel was …

A jury in California on Mar. 8 ordered DePuy Orthopaedics to pay over $8.3 million to a man who says the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary knowingly made and marketed a faulty hip replacement device.    Mixed Verdict In the trial, which began in January, Loren Kransky alleged that the DePuy Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) he received was defective and that the company failed to warn its users that the metal ball and socket could grind against each other and release …

  Kristian Rasmussen accuses the world’s largest provider of dialysis products and services of knowingly endangering dialysis patients’ lives. A partner at Cory Watson Crowder & DeGaris in Birmingham, Ala., Kristian filed the first products liability cases in the country against the German company, Fresenius, over GranuFlo and NaturaLyte. Fresenius manufactures these products, used to clean and filter blood of people whose kidneys have failed. Kristian asserts GranuFlo and NaturaLyte increase the risks of atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeats), heart attacks …

While marijuana is legal in Colorado, it’s clearly not in Nebraska, where cops are reportedly enforcing that state’s laws by profiling drivers with Colorado license plates.    Cops Tell Dad What’s Up One family – a father and his three kids – spent two hours waiting while cops in Douglas County, Neb., searched their Colorado-plated car after pulling them over for going two mph over the speed limit.  “When we see a nice vehicle with Colorado tags, it instantly makes …