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Buffalo News Article: Holding Center incident: Fair force, or foul?: Feb-22-2012 — Two attorneys fought for nearly two years to get nine minutes of security footage from an underground holding cell released. Here is the update.
Buffalo News Article: Linde compensation expanded: Dec-13-2011 — Another group of former workers at Linde Ceramics on Thursday won their battle for federal compensation for the cancers they suffered because of exposure to radiation during the Town of Tonawanda facility’s work on Cold War-era nuclear weapons projects
Buffalo News Article: Jury awards $2 million to Falls man in suit filed over asbestos exposure: Dec-11-2011 — A jury this week awarded $2 million to a Niagara Falls man who filed an asbestos lawsuit a year ago in State Supreme Court.
Buffalo News Article - 11 indicted in project tied to asbestos removal: Aug-05-2011 — A state inspector and two City of Buffalo inspectors are among nine individuals and two companies indicted Thursday on felony charges related to an asbestos removal project in the city.
Slate Article: Canada's Breathtaking Hypocrisy on Asbestos: Jun-30-2011
The Star Article - PM’s callous pitch for votes: Apr-28-2011 — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has just set a new low in trolling for votes, with a shamelessly self-serving campaign stop in Asbestos, Que., home to one of the country’s most notorious exports.
Buffalo News Article - N-exposed retirees win Linde Ceramics fight: Feb-25-2011 — Decades after the federal government secretly exposed them to cancer-causing radiation, retirees from the former Linde Ceramics plant in the Town of Tonawanda -- and their survivors -- have won the biggest battle in their long fight for compensation.
Buffalo Law Journal Article - Intern Program Works: Jan-20-2011
Buffalo News Article - Effort aims for easier lead testing in children: Dec-22-2010 — Some medical authorities in Western New York said this week that lead levels should be a concern for parents of young children all the time -- not just at the holidays.
Buffalo News Article - Students get inside look at the law: Jul-07-2009
Public Justice News Story - Proposed Settlement with CBS & Toy Retailers to Give Refunds for ‘CSI’ Toy Fingerprint Kits That May Contain Asbestos: Jul-01-2009 — Public Justice and the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization announced on July 1 that a proposed settlement of a nationwide class action against CBS Broadcasting, Inc. and major toy retailers, if approved, will give cash refunds to consumers and effectively implement a nationwide recall of toy science kits, based on the popular “CSI” television drama series, that may contain asbestos.
New York Times Article - Ex-Grace Officials on Trial in Asbestos Poisoning: Feb-19-2009 — LIBBY, Mont. — A reckoning in one of American history’s worst industrial disasters, which unfolded here over seven decades as an asbestos-tainted mineral was dug from the ground and processed, begins Thursday when five former mine executives go to trial on federal criminal charges.