The Vermont Supreme Court has denied an appeal by an Elks lodge found to have discriminated against women, saying it failed to show any “reversible errors” in a 2005 trial. In an entry order received by the parties last week, …
More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances. Proponents say the higher age hasn’t kept young people …
Advocates acknowledge their argument is a hard sell politically but say it would be effective at curbing binge drinking More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow …
More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances. Proponents say the higher age hasn’t kept young people …
Torrential rains pelted central Vermont on Wednesday, triggering flash flooding that washed out roads and inundated the city of Barre, where water ran up to 6 feet deep for a time. Between 3 and 4 inches fell in the area …
A judge last Friday rejected Merck & Co.’s request to abort a hearing aimed at establishing whether the company must pay punitive damages to a former Vioxx user already awarded $4.5 million for a heart attack he blamed on the …
In a courtroom in Atlantic City, N.J., Merck & Co. rested its defense last week in a closely watched trial aimed at determining whether the company’s now-withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx caused the heart attacks of two New Jersey men. Closing …
In N.J. Bellwether Case, Trial Lawyers Closely Monitor Evidence, Tactics and Jurors In the back rows of Courtroom 3A in Atlantic City, N.J., the well-dressed men and women sit quietly, watching jurors’ faces, scribbling notes on white legal pads, listening …
