Legal Headlines

Recalls

NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION | August 4, 2009

TRW Automotive is recalling 2,586 IGEN3 intermediate steering columns which were shipped to certain vehicle manufacturers between April 21 and May 26, 2009, for use as original and/or replacement equipment on heavy trucks.




Community

BIRMINGHAM NEWS | July 31, 2009

Hoover police have arrested two men who allegedly burglarized the homes of Hoover residents they tracked on Facebook. Police say the suspects used the popular social networking site to glean personal information about residents, including summer travel plans.




Environmental

CNN | July 13, 2009

HARRIMAN, Tennessee (CNN) -- Pamela Hampton stands at the kitchen sink, her gaze trained out of the window of her family's small hillside home. The disaster site is not visible from where she stands, but she knows it is there, down the hill, around a short stretch of highway, less than a mile away.




Community

THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS | June 15, 2009

Former Alabama Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley, one of the nation's most successful trial lawyers and one of Alabama's most influential Democrats, today endorsed U.S. Rep. Artur Davis for governor.




Consumer Fraud

THE DAILY NEWS | June 5, 2009

When the bottom fell out of several Regions Morgan Keegan mutual funds in 2007, billions of dollars in value belonging to shocked investors quickly evaporated. Law firms throughout the country began signing up investors to represent. One of those firms is Montgomery, Ala.-based Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles PC.




Environmental

ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE | June 2, 2009

DECATUR, Alabama, May 31, 2009 (ENS) - High levels of toxic perfluorochemicals found in agricultural soils near Decatur have led federal government scientists to investigate whether the chemicals have entered the human food chain and contaminated meat and milk. They already have been found in several private drinking water wells.




Environmental

THE CARTHAGE PRESS | May 7, 2009

CARTHAGE, Mo. - An attorney for a Carthage resident suing the owner of the Renewable Environmental Solutions plant say they will file a motion in federal bankruptcy court in New York to lift a stay that has stopped the suit in its tracks.




Personal Injury

FOX10TV.COM | April 30, 2009

BAY MINETTE, Ala. - Hollis Thorn served in the Navy during the 1940's, then became a baptist minister. After his retirement, Thorn was stricken with diabetes.




Environmental

THESTARPRESS.COM | March 10, 2009

MUNCIE - For years, the owners of a former gasoline station failed to warn a neighbor that the ground water and soil beneath his house was contaminated with gasoline, a lawsuit alleges.




Consumer Fraud

MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER | February 18, 2009

Colonial BancShares is facing at least six lawsuits alleging that the bank purposefully didn't disclose pertinent material when it announced it had been declared eligible for federal bailout money.