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The Legal Intelligencer: Magazine Solutions Inc. engaged in a nationwide telemarketing scam that targeted young mothers with promises of valuable coupons when, in fact, they were luring them into buying unwanted magazine subscriptions.

The Recorder: The school will pay stipends of $4,000 to $5,000 to students who intern in public interest positions.

Daily Business Review: “It was a 50-year conspiracy where the tobacco companies deliberately and consciously lied. All the while, they knew people were dying.”

Millions of dollars in corporate campaign spending led to the election of sympathetic judges who upheld the law after it had been struck down earlier.

InjuryBoard.com: A self-described conservative attorney says caps on medical negligence damage awards would allow insurance companies “to usurp the will of a jury of one’s peers in favor of an artificial limit set by a politician who knows nothing about the intricacies of a case.”

Baltimore Sun: The firm routinely took unpaid-debt cases to the National Arbitration Forum, which billed itself as neutral ground for disputes, even though it was connected through a common ownership structure. Arbitrators almost always ruled in favor of creditors.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that the constitutional right to a trial by jury “includes the right to have a jury determine the amount of…damages, if any…”