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Westlaw Journals: Attorneys say the information has implications for both economic-damage and personal injury/wrongful death cases against the automaker.

FairWarning.org: Sean Kane of Safety Research & Strategies writes, “We handed safety over to the machines long ago.” Now, he says, we need to update safety regulations.

Washington Post/Kaiser Health News: Even though medical experts agree operating on the wrong body part should never happen, some researchers say the problem of wrong-site surgery is getting worse.

California Watch: The AG’s office has filed legal documents arguing hospitals in the state must file monthly reports on infections related to 29 types of surgeries under a 2008 state law, while the California Hospital Association says state regulators haven’t followed the process for making the rules.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Banner Homes has agreed to pay $54.5 million to repair homes tainted with the corrosive material.

Houston Chronicle: Jury selection is underway in the case of a woman who says she was drugged and gang raped by coworkers six years ago while working for a contractor in Iraq, after she fought her employer’s efforts to force the case to binding arbitration.

The National Law Journal: It has not yet produced any graduates, but the two-year-old UC Irvine School of Law has been granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association.