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[08/19] NY state firefighters deliver 3 babies in transit
[08/19] Suit accuses restaurant of giving man big tapeworm
[08/19] Sailor, knocked from boat, rescued 12 hours later
[08/14] Calif. mom gives birth on front lawn by herself
[08/01] Boy, 4, tries to drive to grandma's house, crashes
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Injury & Tort Law

[08/28] Northland Casualty Co. v. Meeks
In an insurance claim by estate of plaintiffs in which defendant-insurer's coverage excluded claims by employees, grant of summary judgment to defendant insurance company is affirmed where: 1) there were no genuine issues of material fact; and 2) the district court correctly determined that the deceased was an employee and not a temporary worker as defined by the insurance policy.

[08/28] Harrison v. Ash, C.O.
In a claim by the estate of plaintiff-inmate, serving 35-day sentence for failure to pay child support, who died after a severe asthma attack in a county jail, judgment denying qualified immunity with respect to defendant officers is reversed and nurses' appeal for lack of jurisdiction is dismissed where: 1) defendant officers were not deliberately indifferent to plaintiff's medical needs because they reasonably responded to his requests for medical attention in a timely manner and defendant officers were entitled to rely upon the medical treatment of nurses once they obtained medical care for plaintiff; and 2) purposes of qualified immunity do not support the extension of the doctrine to nurses employed by a private medical provider.

[08/27] Khorrami v. Rolince
In a suit alleging violations of due-process rights by government agents who detained plaintiff while investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, an interlocutory appeal of the denial of a grant of qualified immunity to defendants is dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction where the district court's deferral of a ruling on the government's qualified immunity motion was not equivalent to a denial of the motion.
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