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Who Is Liable in “Mass Shootings” and Other Acts of Public Violence? As the recent mass shooting incidents in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio, have tragically demonstrated, we live in a society where acts of “planned” or “premeditated” public violence have become a matter of great concern in regard to public safety. Although we will avoid the very real issues of concern to both the law enforcement and civil libertarian communities, at The Doan Law Firm we believe that…

Virginia Tech has identified over a dozen fraternities that could still be operating after they were suspended from campus for any number of school policy violations, most of which were for hazing and providing alcoholic beverages to minors. This post identifies these “rogue” fraternities and discusses their records at other institutions.

“Cancer Clusters” are cancers that develop within limited geographic areas and involve more victims than can be explained by purely random disease development. In many cases, such clusters are due to exposure to some environmental toxin. This post explains how both the medical and legal communities investigate such unusual disease occurrence patterns.

Massive Florida Gas Pipeline Explosion Injures 23 Turns Section of Shopping Center to Rubble A massive explosion, attributed to a gas pipeline rupture, resulted in a large section of a shopping center in Plantation, Florida, being reduced to rubble. At least 20 people were injured in the blast, two very seriously. The Fountains Plaza Mall, the site of the explosion, is located just outside of Ft. Lauderdale. Witnesses at the Scene of the Gas Line Explosion Shoppers were enjoying an…

The family of a former West Virginia University student has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit after their son’s fraternity “brothers” waited two hours before calling 911 after he fell at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Read this post to learn why Bloomberg.com called Sigma Alpha Epsilon “The Deadliest Fraternity in America.”