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Suits Target Annuity Pitches

More than a dozen federal lawsuits claim insurers are misleading elderly consumers with sales pitches for equity-indexed annuities that track the stock market. The largest case is a class action on behalf of 400,000 consumers who bought annuities from Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America, the Wall Street Journal…

Aug 8, 2007 3:36 PM CDT

En Banc Court Mulls Abortion Law

Anti-abortion groups are pursuing a strategy that focuses on the consequences for women who undergo abortion. An example is the law passed by South Dakota, Adam Liptak writes in his Sidebar column for the New York Times (sub. req.). The measure requires doctors to tell women considering abortion that the…

Aug 6, 2007 1:55 PM CDT

Laws Shield Executioners

Several state laws shield the identities of medical personnel administering lethal cocktails to condemned inmates, even as lawsuits claim botched executions. A federal judge barred a Missouri doctor from participating in lethal injections after he admitted he sometimes gave condemned inmates smaller doses of sedative than required by state guidelines,…

Jul 30, 2007 3:33 PM CDT

Last Resorts of Court

One date that’s on almost every federal judge’s calendar this summer is the meeting of his or her circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, at which trial and appellate judges review the work of the court and socialize at some of the nicest resorts and hotels in the nation.…

Jul 1, 2007 7:04 PM CDT

Missouri Lethal Injections Upheld

A federal appeals court has upheld Missouri’s lethal injection procedure. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis said yesterday that the three-drug cocktail did not violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We find no evidence to indicate…

Jun 5, 2007 5:09 PM CDT

Lawyers Spar Over Abortion Law

A lawyer for abortion opponents told a federal appeals court yesterday than an injunction blocking an abortion warning law is interfering with the rights of pregnant women in South Dakota. The women are losing their “rights to a relationship with their children,” said Harold Cassidy, chief counsel for anti-abortion centers…

Apr 12, 2007 3:45 PM CDT

8th Circuit Reconsiders Abortion Issue

A federal appeals court will sit en banc today to reconsider an injunction blocking a South Dakota abortion law from taking effect. The 2005 law requires abortion providers to tell patients that the procedure will “terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” the New York Times…

Apr 11, 2007 1:33 PM CDT

Suits Target Annuity Pitches

En Banc Court Mulls Abortion Law

Laws Shield Executioners

Last Resorts of Court

Missouri Lethal Injections Upheld

Lawyers Spar Over Abortion Law

8th Circuit Reconsiders Abortion Issue

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