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Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline's Caseload Growing, Needs More Staff
Complaints against judges across the state are rising, but the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline is having a tough time keeping up.Executive Director Paul Deyhle said the commission lacks...
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Belfast Lawyer Accused of Bilking 2 Elderly Clients Enters Plea
Accused of BilkingA lawyer from Belfast accused of bilking two elderly clients of more than $300,000 has pled not guilty, according to a court clerk. 60-year-old William Dawson is accused of paying...
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Connecticut teen fighting state over forced chemotherapy treatments
HARTFORD, Conn. — A 17-year-old girl with cancer and her mother are battling Connecticut over an order that she accept chemotherapy treatments — and the state's Supreme Court has agreed to an expedited...
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Granny Locked Up in Basement While Family Was on Week-long Holiday
Tulsa, OK | An 82-year old grandmother has been locked up in the family basement for the past four days while her relatives had left her for a week-long holiday in Mexico before local police officers...
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Tonight on T.S. Radio: Minnesotta is No Exception - Medicating the Elderly to...
Tonight’s guest documents the use of neuroleptics (psychotropic) drugs on her aging mother and the adverse reactions these drugs cause.Finding her self powerless to stop the over-prescribing of...
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California lawyer who inherited client's wealth ordered to pay charities
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A judge has ordered a California lawyer to pay four prominent non-profit groups, including Doctors Without Borders, a total of $4.3 million for using "undue influence" in...
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Honoring Elders: Silver Ribbon Partners targets senior abuse in RGV
McALLEN — Rosa Ramirez will always remember the extreme heat as she walked into the home of an elderly Rio Grande Valley woman in the middle of August a few years ago. The 85-year-old woman was...
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Medicide: Trafficking the Elderly and the Use of Neuroleptics to Cause...
Over 60? Got assets? You could be the next victim of a predatory guardian and a cadre of attorney’s, APS agents, social services agents, all looking to fill their quarterly quota’s or their personal...
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Courting contempt
On leaving the city's old Family Court building, The Inquirer recently reported, some judges saw fit to take the fixtures with them to their new chambers. This neatly illustrated the distance between...
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Advisors As Guardians
Issues involving seniors and their guardians can sometimes present problems for financial advisors and their elderly clients.“We are seeing financial exploitation of the elderly by court-appointed...
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Former Davidson County (TN) Public Guardian Must Stand Trial
A clearly frustrated Davidson circuit court judge has ruled that former Public Guardian Jeanan Stuart must stand trial on charges in a civil suit that she engaged in willful misconduct in her role as...
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Linda Kincaid Reports: Assisted living facility conceals elder abuse,...
Community Care Licensing cited San Bernardino County, CA assisted living facility Wildwood Canyon Villa for neglecting to give a resident needed pain medication. The December 17, 2012 investigation...
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Linda Kincaid Reports: Community Care Licensing botched elder abuse, sexual...
On March 11, 2013, the family of Jean Swope reported that Jean may have been repeatedly sexually assaulted by a male caregiver at Wildwood Canyon Villa, a San Bernardino County, CA assisted living...
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Linda Kincaid Reports: Family’s 3rd request to sheriff for elder abuse,...
Sheriff John McMahonIn 2010, Jean Swope was taken from her home and hidden from family at Wildwood Canyon Villa, an assisted living facility in San Bernardino County, CA. Wildwood kept Jean in a locked...
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Cops: Woman in apartment under daughter may have died in '13
GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. — Authorities say a 94-year-old woman's badly decomposed body may have been in her upstate New York apartment for more than a year before being discovered, despite her daughter...
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Health aide charged with stealing from Corning man
An Elmira woman was charged this week with stealing more than $2,000 from an elderly man who was in her care.Tara Girardi, 28, a home health aide who lives on Allen Street in Elmira, was charged with...
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Connecticut Supreme Court upholds ruling that teen must undergo chemo
The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a prior ruling Thursday that a 17-year-old cancer patient cannot refuse chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.The state argued that the teen lacked...
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2 Years After Car Crash, Man in 'Minimally Conscious State' Suddenly Speaks
A man in Italy who was in what doctors call a "minimally conscious state" for nearly two years unexpectedly regained full consciousness and the ability to talk, according to a new report of his...
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Wichita police: Scammers bilk thousands of dollars from elderly couple
A couple in their 80s is out several thousand dollars after scammers convinced them to part with money in exchange for a “jackpot” of more than $20 million, police said Thursday.An 81-year-old woman...
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