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New York Times: “Do not underestimate the anger and frustration of people in the Gulf.”

New York Times: “Consumers rarely emerge from debt settlement programs with their credit card balances eliminated,” according to a report on the debt settlement industry.

National Law Journal: The court’s ruling in Rent-A-Center, West v. Jackson “greatly limits the ability of consumers and employees to challenge the fairness of arbitration agreements.”

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: An Arkansas jury’s $2.7 million award to a woman who claimed her use of the hormone replacement drug led her to develop breast cancer was allowed to stand.

Detroit Free Press: Former Michigan Association for Justice president Robert M. Raitt writes, “Our crippled economy, record unemployment and foreclosures, and the environmental catastrophe in the gulf have revealed the lies of tort reform.”

Daily Business Review: A Miami couple was awarded almost $2.5 million after their house was ruined by gas emitted by drywall.

The Pop Tort (blog): The New York State Department of Health is participating in a new federally-funded hospital program “where the health industry essentially becomes (or highly influences) the decision maker as to whether malpractice occurred.”