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Dead New Mexico Woman’s Family Sues Bar over Lewd Corndog Contest

A New Mexico family is suing the owners of a shuttered Albuquerque night club, their former landlord and a liquor license-holder after a woman choked during a corndog eating contest and suffered fatal brain damage. The mother, husband and daughter …

Court Says Oklahoma Tribe Immune from Dramshop Liability Lawsuit

The Oklahoma Supreme Court, reversing a previous ruling, says a family injured in a 2006 auto accident cannot sue the Peoria Tribe or its Buffalo Run Casino, where the other driver in the crash had been drinking. The court’s 5-4 …