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Flagpole Radio Cafe Raising Money to Support Challenge Grant
March 19, 2012As the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission announced this week, The Flagpole Radio Café has been presented with a $5,000 challenge grant from the law firm of Stratton Faxon,...
Stew Leonard's Founder Sued in Boater's Death
March 08, 2012The founder of Connecticut-based Stew Leonard’s grocery store chain is facing a lawsuit alleging the reckless operation of his powerboat caused the death of a passenger la...
Stew Leonard Sr. & Son Sued in Boating Death
March 07, 2012Dairy store owner Stew Leonard Sr. is being sued by the wife of a former Westport home builder who died after being washed off Leonard's boat in the Caribbean last year. In the ...
Boy Lost Eyesight After Failed Diagnosis, Suit Charges
January 17, 2012A Tolland boy has sued his pediatrician, charging she failed to diagnose
his bacterial meningitis, resulting in his losing his eyesight.

 The boy, Ada...
Connecticut Supreme Court to Consider Appeal in Death of Yale Student on I-95 Crash
December 21, 2011Nearly a decade after the tragedy, the state Supreme Court may soon provide finality in the case of Nicholas Grass, who, along with three other Yale fraternity pledges, was kill...
Broken Back Broken Record
October 31, 2011In what plaintiffs’ lawyers are calling the largest pre-trial personal injury settlement in Connecticut history, a man rendered a paraplegic following a construction site ...
Largest Pretrial Settlement in Injury Case
October 20, 2011The law firm representing a man paralyzed in a construction accident five years ago said it has won for him the highest known pretrial settlement ever obtained in a Connecticut ...
HALT Needs to be Stopped in its Tracks
October 04, 2011The first time Shengyl Rasim left home with her young son and baby daughter she stayed away for six weeks from the man who beat her. The second time Rasim fled, she went back to...
Jonathan Edwards Opens Season Four of Flagpole Radio Cafe
September 17, 2011Folk musician and performer Jonathan Edwards entertained Flagpole Radio Café attendees with songs and tales of his experiences during the 2011-12 season opener on Septemb...
Suit Against Legion of Christ to Proceed in Connecticut
September 07, 2011A lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was molested for years by the founder of a once-powerful religious order will go forward in Connecticut, where a judge refused in a ruling...
Judge Upholds Key Elements in Maciel Sex Abuse Case
September 07, 2011A state judge has upheld key elements of a lawsuit claiming that for years the Vatican ignored allegations of child sexual abuse by a priest who founded the Legionaries of Chris...
32 Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Against St. Francis Settled
May 09, 2011St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center has agreed to settle one-third of the lawsuits filed by sex abuse victims of Dr. George Reardon, a hospital endocrinologist who decades a...
Dave & Buster's Agree to 1.5 Million Settlement in DUI Case
May 05, 2011A national restaurant chain has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of a 20-year-old Riverside man who was killed in a 2008 drunken-driving accident, according to court&nbs...
Pedophile Trial Puts Hospital Under Scrutiny
April 04, 2011It's a trial that's expected to draw many members of media and public to the courthouse. The Judicial Branch has set up a closed-circuit TV system to handle the overflow. The tr...
West Haven Slaying: Federal lawsuit filed against police; lawyer cites racism in mishandling of 911 calls
March 18, 2011If Shengyl Rasim had not been Turkish, police personnel wouldn’t have “ignored and mock(ed)” her, responding with a “cavalier and dismissive attitude&rdq...
Family Sues West Haven Police In Murder-Suicide
March 17, 2011On Jan. 18, 2010, Selami Ozdemir returned drunk, armed and angry to the Blohm Street home he shared with wife, Shengyl Rasim. He had been released by police just a day earlier o...
Reardon Case Finally Headed to Court
March 06, 2011It has been more than 40 years since the Hartford medical establishment quietly buried the first documented complaint. But the waiting could end this week for the adults who say...
St. Francis Hospital Wants Reardon Sex-Abuse Plaintiffs Publicly Identified
February 02, 2011Attorneys for St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford are asking the court to require that the plaintiffs in the George Reardon sex-abuse case be named in court docu...
Town of Clinton to Pay $14M to Man Injured in 2005 Crash
January 26, 2011A man who was severely injured in a car crash in 2005 was awarded $14 million in court Tuesday after a jury found the town of Clinton responsible for the crash. The jury...
$23,000,000 Pre-Trial Recovery in Negligence Case
January 06, 2011In this construction site negligence, the plaintiff alleged that he fell 25 feet to the ground from the makeshift box on a forklift which was transporting them to the roof of a ...
St. Francis Victims Speak Out
December 13, 2010Joel T. Faxon talks to Fox News anchor, Logan Byrnes, about the sexual abuse lawsuit involving the late George Reardon and St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. Two victims of Reard...
Malfunction Doctrine Functioning Well in Connecticut
December 06, 2010If a product malfunctions, our law permits an inference that the product is defective. This policy judgment is consistent with the product liability rationale of spreading the r...
Diocese Loses Priest Sex Abuse Case
November 19, 2010A state Superior Court judge in Waterbury Friday issued a judgment
 against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport in a lawsuit brought by
 a man who claimed he wa...
Lawyer Says Seymour Priest Unfit to Answer Questions
November 02, 2010The Seymour priest accused in two civil lawsuits of sexually molesting young boys in the 1970s and 1980s is suffering from a medical condition that will prevent him from being d...
Judge Attaches Seymour Priest's Assets; Cites 'Overwhelming' Evidence to Back Sex Abuse Claim
October 21, 2010A Superior Court judge ruled this week that a city man’s sex abuse case against a Seymour priest was persuasive enough to warrant attaching $10 million of the priest&rsquo...
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