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Four-Plaintiff Chicago Trial Opens Against Abbott Over Preterm Infant Formula
1+ day, 12+ min ago (171+ words) The trial is the fourth in the nation to allege cow's milk-based formula fed to premature babies in hospitals causes a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness called necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. Dean Omar Branham & Shirley, the Dallas plaintiffs' firm that won verdicts…...
Recalibrating Custody Adjudication in New Jersey: Child Safety, Judicial Discretion and the Limits of Legislative Design
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (186+ words) The recent amendments to N.J.S.A. 9:2-4 reflect a legislative effort to prioritize child safety and to constrain therapeutic intervention in contested custody cases. This fourth reprint of S4510 and third reprint of A5761 issued on or about Dec. 22, 2025 substantially alters how contested custody cases…...
Florida Supreme Court Rules At-Home Sperm Donors Can Seek Parental Rights
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (303+ words) "This really isn't a decision about the rights of same sex couples to have a child. ... It says a person, in this case a man, who has a constitutional right to parent his biological child, cannot be deemed to relinquish…...