La. judge: Hospital deaths case too slow
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Frustrated by the slow progress of the case, a judge said Monday that a doctor and two nurses accused of killing four desperately ill patients after Hurricane Katrina should be formally charged or exonerated.
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The case against a doctor and two  nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after  Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling  that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District  Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - The judge in Michael  Jackson's child molestation trial told prospective jurors on  Monday the case had been postponed for a week following a death  in the family of the pop star's lead attorney.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- In the 18 months that the case of journalist Jean Dominique's slaying languished at the Supreme Court, two presiding judges resigned in fear for their lives, two suspects were killed in jail, and most of the evidence went missing.
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All charges against a doctor accused of murdering patients who were suffering in a chaotic New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina have been dropped, local prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Detectives are given more time to question a man over the death of a woman whose body was found in a lay-by.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.  - A federal judge on Monday  granted a one-week delay in the criminal fraud trial of former  HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK  Chief Executive Richard Scrushy to  give his defense team more time to review evidence turned over  by the government.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 12--La Crosse County says it has negotiated a substantial reduction  in fines levied by the state against Lakeview Health Center after a resident  died in 2005.
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A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an expert to help him make sense of it all.
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Patient safety is at risk because of delays in hearing misconduct cases against nurses, the BBC learns.
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With a doctor and two nurses accused of killing four patients in the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, there was anger among relatives but little surprise from some who have long considered the deaths of their loved ones to be suspicious.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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Dr. Anna Pou was accused of murdering nine patients in a New Orleans hospital wracked by Katrina, but a grand jury declined to indict her. Now she gives her side of the story.
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A grand jury refused to indict a doctor accused of killing four elderly patients in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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A grand jury to be formed this month will probe allegations that a doctor and two nurses euthanized four critically ill patients in the days after Hurricane Katrina, prosecutors said Thursday.
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A feeding tube for a severely brain-damaged woman can't be removed until appeals are exhausted in her parents' fight to have a new trial in the long-running right-to-die case, a judge ruled Friday.
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A grand jury investigation into deaths at a hospital during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will not begin for at least a month.