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Already under the microscope in a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teen who died after drinking two cans of its energy drink, Monster Beverage Corporation is taking a report by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) personally.    DAWN Sounds the Alarm The DAWN report, issued Jan. 10 and titled “Update on Emergency Department Visits Involving Energy Drinks: A Continuing Public Health Concern,” says that “medical and behavioral consequences can result from excessive caffeine intake.” DAWN is a …

Los padres de una niña que fue violada por su entrenador de futbol, cuando ella tenía 13 años de edad, están demandando a la liga local de futbol y a la organización nacional que la cobija por negligencia al no supervisar adecuadamente a dicho entrenador antes de permitirle tener acceso a niños. La demanda, presentada en el Condado de Santa Clara, en California, se presenta contra U.S. Youth Soccer y la California Youth Soccer Association-North, estableciendo que si tuvieran una …

In the largest police misconduct case in Chicago history, the city will pay $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a woman who was raped and fell from a seventh-story window after officers left her in a high-crime area. Christina Eilman was a 21-year-old college student when she was arrested at Midway Airport in May of 2006 because she was acting strangely and violently. She was taken to a holding cell where she continued babbling incoherently and smearing menstrual blood …

The parents of a girl who was raped by her youth soccer coach when she was 13 are suing the local soccer league and its national umbrella organization for negligence in failing to adequately vet the coach before allowing him access to children. The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County, California, names U.S. Youth Soccer and the California Youth Soccer Association-North, claiming that if they had a policy of conducting background checks they would have discovered that coach Emanuele Fabrizio …

A man who fell and broke his back on the golf course of a country club won a $6 million jury award. Amar Sappal was a guest of his son, who was a member of the Mid-Pacific Country Club in Hawaii. Sappal was standing on the illuminated first tee area with another guest at around 11:00 p.m. on a June night in 2009 when the country club’s automatic sprinkler system went off. Sappal was suddenly knocked backwards down a slope …