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Consumer Concerns and Advice Recent UpdatesJune 18, 2008 June 13, 2008 June 11, 2008 May 27, 2008 May 20, 2008 Archives
May, 2008 Web ResourcesChalat Hatten Law Offices
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It practically takes a legal background to act as an informed consumer in the American marketplace today. You make a simple purchase and then find yourself confronting - defective products, product recalls, class action suits, waivers, mandatory arbitration clauses and so on. How do you protect yourself and your legal rights? By staying informed - and we will help by providing timely updates to current issues.
Pools Pose Deadly Attraction When 3-year-old Anthony Muniz drowned in a neighbor's backyard pool here earlier this month, the tragedy was particularly piercing: Little Anthony had been named for his mother's teenage brother, who died in his family's pool years ago. The fence that Anthony climbed over after slipping out of his Long Island home on June 6 was four feet tall, as required by the town where he lived, Brookhaven. An hour's drive west, the fence would have had to be five feet in the town of Hempstead and six feet in North Hempstead. And the pool he drowned in, built about 30 years ago, was exempt from a new New York state law that requires alarms, but only for new or renovated pools.
No Day in Court for Widow The widow of a leukemia victim failed to persuade the Supreme Court Monday to consider allowing her to sue chemical companies over her husband's exposure to a toxic chemical, a case her lawyer calls a legal "Catch 22" in Alabama. The justices without comment declined to take up the case of Martha Jane Cline, who is trying to hold the manufacturing companies accountable for her late husband's health problems. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the case June 4. |
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