Suit filed to halt closure of King-Drew trauma
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A doctors group says closing the unit will violate the Civil Rights Act and disenfranchise minorities. By Matt Krasnowski. A doctors group trying to block the closing of Martin Luther King Jr.
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.
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A lawsuit has been filed against Sean "Diddy" Combs, alleging the music mogul punched and pushed the plaintiff and his girlfriend at a Hollywood nightclub. Gerard Rechnitzer is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages in the suit, which was filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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LA officials want to add a facility to California Hospital to help handle King-Drew patients. By David Zahniser. County health officials are finalizing an agreement to open a new trauma center in downtown Los Angeles on Dec.
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By Farrish, Jessica  FAYETTEVILLE - A lawsuit filed Oct. 23 in Fayette County Circuit Court to halt Phase I of a controversial plan by Land Resource Co. to develop some of the land overlooking the New River Gorge.
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The son of a 91-year-old woman who died in her wheelchair while waiting to be rescued from the city's Convention Center in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina sued the city and state Thursday.
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The National Basketball Association  has filed a lawsuit to block the players' union obtaining an  independent review of the lengthy suspensions which followed  the mass brawl in last month's game between the Indiana Pacers  and Detroit Pistons.
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DENVER -- An Army appeals court stopped a key hearing yesterday for three soldiers charged with killing an Iraqi general during an interrogation and ordered the military to explain why the proceedings have been closed to the public.
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Chiropractic correction of trauma-induced injury to the upper spine may halt or reverse the progression of both multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease symptoms, according to a Colorado practitioner.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 3 -- The district attorney has dropped the case against two nurses in the deaths of four patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.
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A Colorado resident has filed suit to stop a state ballot measure aimed at ending the state's winner-take-all electoral vote system, which if passed could help determine who is elected president next month.
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A group trying to prevent closure of the trauma center at an inner-city medical center filed a discrimination lawsuit, alleging the county is trying to dismantle the troubled hospital.
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Officials in the nation's capital announced the &#36;425,000 settlement of a lawsuit Monday stemming from a mass arrest that occurred not far from the White House nearly 28 months ago.
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By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Sep. 13--Three environmental groups sued Tuesday to stop a $150 million bridge project, championed by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, that they claim will needlessly degrade a vast natural area on upper Lake Marion.
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The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to close Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center&#39;s trauma unit, dealing a blow to community leaders and other protestors, including UCLA medical students, who fought to keep it open.
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A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday in King County Superior Court on behalf of people who have used the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx.
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LOS ANGELES The family of a 28-year-old Los Angeles man has filed a one (m) million dollar claim for negligence against troubled Martin Luther King Junior/Drew Medical Center and a nurse.