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The family of Brianna Maya, 13, has prevailed against the makers of Children’s Motrin in a lawsuit, receiving a $10 million judgment in Philadelphia. For most users of Children’s Motrin, side effects are fairly uncommon. But for Maya, they have caused a lifetime’s worth of pain. Maya was only 3 years old when her parents gave her Children’s Motrin to help combat a fever, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. She soon began to suffer serious side effects....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit brought by investors who had purchased stock in Merck & Co., Inc. – manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx – and allege that Merck’s officers and directors misrepresented the drug’s safety and commercial viability. Vioxx, once a hugely-popular prescription pain medication, was pulled from the market in 2004, due to its link to increased risk of serious cardiovascular problems like heart attack and stroke....

In side-impact crashes, small pickup trucks offer less protection than many cars and sport-utility vehicles – with some models receiving ‘dismal’ safety ratings – according to a recent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study of side-impact tests involving small pickups. Of the 2008 model small pickups tested by the IIHS, only the Toyota Tacoma received a rating of “good” for occupant protection in side-impact crashes, which the IIHS calls the “second most common type of fatal motor vehicle crash....

Cyntoia Brown’s story has a bittersweet ending, but that’s better than the alternative. Come August, she will be a free woman, notwithstanding ten years on parole following her release. When Brown was 16 years old, she was convicted in a Tennessee court room of murdering a man who bought her for sex, and was handed an adult sentence that wouldn’t have allowed her to seek parole until she was 51....

A group of indie musicians have come clean about selling a fake case about a dead cat to “Judge Judy”… about four years after their episode aired. In an interview with Vice, one of the four culprits of the dead cat con, Jonathan Coward, said it was a quick way to make money and snag a free trip to Los Angeles, where “Judge Judy” is recorded. So how did these fakers manage to punk “Judge Judy,” and could they face any legal consequences for their dead-cat hoax?...

Last March, Disney was sued by Kelley Wilson for copyright infringement. She claims that the trailer for Frozen copied her short film The Snowman. As the judge notes, both the trailer and the short film are about a snowman who loses his nose on a frozen pond. The snowman must battle an animal who also wants the carrot nose. The animal wins the carrot nose but eventually returns it to the snowman....

All packages of “Dole Hearts Delight” bagged salad with a September 19, 2007 “best if used by” date and production codes A24924A or A24924B are being recalled by Dole Food Company Inc., in the U.S. and Canada. In a Press Release, Dole reports that “the recall is occurring because a sample in a grocery store in Canada was found through random screening to contain E. coli O157:H7.” The E. coli bacterium, one of the leading causes of food poisoning, produces a powerful toxin that can cause severe stomach and intestinal illness....

What’s the price to pay for posting photos of museum art on your Flickr account? The World Erotic Art Museum wants $2 million. They sued Thomas Hawk after he allegedly posted photos on Flickr that he snapped during his trip to the erotic museum, which prohibits photography. According to a response from the WEAM, Hawk falsely claimed to be a member of the media in order to obtain permission to take the photos....

Knowing the ending to your favorite television show or movie is a major buzz kill. Twentieth Century Fox Studios apparently thinks it is a $12 million spoiler alert. In a recent screenplay copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the movie studio giant, the company is seeking redress from aspiring screenwriter Patricia McIlvaine. Fox claims she posted hundreds of movie scripts online. Without permission or payment, of course. For her part, McIlvaine does not seem to be making too much money off the posts – she works as a telephone flower saleswoman by day and writes scripts at night....

June is National Safety Month. To commemorate this year’s “Make a Difference” theme, FindLaw’s June Spotlight is on safety tips, injury prevention and National Safety Month resources. According to the National Safety Council, throughout the month of June, “National Safety Month activities will address the most significant reasons for unintentional injuries and deaths in the American workplace, on the road and in the home and community.” National Safety Month information and resources will focus on Emergency Preparedness, Distracted Driving, Poisoning Prevention, and Preventing Falls....

Mike Tyson’s criminal past is catching up to him, as the former heavyweight champion was barred from entering Britain due to his prior rape conviction. The 47-year-old former athlete was scheduled to arrive in the U.K. over the weekend to promote his autobiography, “Undisputed Truth,” but a British immigration law passed in December 2012 blocked the notorious boxer from entering the country, reports The Guardian. How does this British law mirror our own laws on felons entering the country?...

Two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison remain at large and U.S. marshals have added the pair to their most-wanted fugitives list. As the manhunt continues in upstate New York and beyond, there is now a $50,000 reward for information that leads to capture of David Sweat and Richard Matt. The duo escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility over two weeks ago, allegedly with help from prison worker Joyce Mitchell....

An award-winning reporter for Fox News in New York is under arrest for sexual assault of a child. Reporter Charles Leaf was arrested on October 7 on three counts of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. It has been reported that the child in question was a four year-old acquaintance of the reporter’s and that the assault took place at his home in New Jersey. Charles Leaf is an ex-marine who has been a reporter for Fox 5 News since 2006, reports WPIX News....

For the first time in recent memory, a single day has passed in New York City without any reports of violent crime, Reuters reports. That’s no reports of anyone being shot, stabbed, or slashed, according to the NYPD. About 8 million people live in New York City, and for no stabbings or shootings to happen in a single day is quite a feat. Maybe all the potential criminals were recovering from too much turkey over Thanksgiving....

When a woman goes to the trouble and expense of arranging a surrogate to carry a baby for her, she usually wants a kid pretty bad. Often, this follows many other less extreme efforts to have a child, and many in this situation fear that the surrogate will change her mind and decide that the baby she carried for nine months is hers. But the case of Sherry Shepherd shows that you just never know how things will go....

Two years after his fatal crash, Paul Walker’s daughter is suing Porsche, who manufactured the car Walker was a passenger in when he died. The lawsuit alleges that design defects in the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT led to her father’s death. Porsche has previously admitted to problems with the stability control in the Carrera GT, statements which could affect this case. Daughter Furious The lawsuit filed on behalf of 16-year-old Meadow Rain Walker alleges “the vehicle lacked safety features that are found on well-designed racing cars or even Porsche’s least expensive road cars – features that could have prevented the accident or, at a minimum, allowed Paul Walker to survive the crash....

A pharmacist has been arrested in connection with the meningitis-tainted steroid scandal which killed at least 64 people in 2012. Authorities caught Glenn Adam Chin, 46, at Boston’s Logan International Airport, where he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong. According to The New York Times, Chin was charged with one count of mail fraud, but his attorney believes that the sudden arrest was an attempt to generate publicity for the case....

There’s often a misconception that sex offenders are designated as such for the remainder of their lives, but the truth is that, for some, it’s possible to get off a sex offender registry if the law provides for removal. Though the federal government passed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 in an attempt to standardize removal laws across the states, only 8 states (Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, South Dakota and Wyoming) are currently in compliance, making the issue of removal primarily a state-specific inquiry....

Convicted sex offenders are subject to a variety of conditions on their probation or parole. Every state has a mandatory sex offender registry requirement, although time on the registry may vary. And courts have even allowed lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders. All of which is to say that the government and law enforcement have a lot of leeway when deciding how to punish and monitor sex offenders. But North Carolina took that a step too far, apparently....

The ShamWow! guy is apparently not only creepy looking, but is also a big creep. You know the ShamWow! Guy, he’s the As Seen on TV pitchman with the British accent that gets really excited about cleaning up with the ShamWow! Vince Shlomi (he has a name!) is being sued by his former live-in assistant who is accusing him of trying to turn her into his ’love slave.' He also offered to pay her $20,000 to help him create ShamWow!...