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Rockwood Chief Financial Officer Gregg Becker's Right to Sue Communioty Health Systemts Inc Upheld by Washington State Supreme Court
September 17, 2015...
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Spokane Golf and Country Club Discrimination Judgments from Verdicts Settled through the Kalispel Tribe Purchase of the Spokane Country Club
September 11, 2015
Mary Schultz Law clients Dru Hieber, Nancy Van Noy, Laura Skaer and Tracy Villaneueva will all recover their judgments from the verdicts and fee awards they obtained in their private ...
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PBS's Frontline "Rape on the Nighshift"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/
June 23, 2015
Mary Schultz will appear on PBS's Frontline, an investoigative news report, regarding her experiences as a plaintiffs', defense, and consulting counsel in the janitorial industry. ...
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Showdown in Spokane - The Spokane Country Club's Efforts in Bankruptcy Go Awry
March 23, 2015
http://commercialbankruptcylitigation.com/articles/showdown-in-spokane
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Gregg Becker V Community Health Systems Inc, et al Published Decision Division III Appellate Court
August 14, 2014...
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Injunction against Spokane Country Club takes on deep-rooted gender discrimination
August 8, 2014...
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Jury awards four female members damages against the Spokane Country Club
March 3, 2013The Spokane Country Club must pay more than $500,000 for discriminating against female members.
A Spokane County Superior Court jury Thursday ruled in favor of four women who argued they ...
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Mary Schultz Law P.S. Relocates to Acreage Preserve
August 2, 2012Mary Schultz Law P.S. has relocated to a 150 acre forest and wetland area south of Spokane, remodeling a 6200 square foot building to house the new office model. The practice is...
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Former Rockwood CFO suing clinic
March 7, 2012Rockwood Clinic’s former chief financial officer has filed a whistleblower complaint accusing the large medical practice of attempting to force him into filing misleading financial rep...
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Club Traditions Just Discrimination
Spokesman Review Columnist Shawn Vestal
July 30, 2010It was Wednesday, May 9. The place, the Spokane Country Club.Little did the community know that what was about to happen would shake the foun...
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Strong Arm of the Law
What happens when someone complains a cop used excessive force? Usually, not much.
June 29, 2010...
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Wrongful Death Alleged in Suicide
July 23, 2009A claim for medical negligence resulting in the death of a Spokane man from self inflicted suicide was filed today, claiming that the medical treatment and accomodations provided to this known...
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Country Club Bias Alleged
Suit Bought against Country Club for Gender Discrimination/Stockholder Devaluation
July 20, 2009Three female stockholders of the Spokane Country Club have sued that club, claiming that the Club has breached their stockholder contract with the Club by according male shareolders ...
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Boeing Worker Sues Over Violated Ethics, Wrongful Termination
Seattle PI
May 13, 2009Atttorney Joseph Sicilia, who worked in Boeing's ethics policing division, says that he was demoted to being an administrative assistant and then fired after raising concerns about violation of gov...
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Mother joins suit against her father in son's boating death
October 24, 2008The mother of a 13-year-old boy who died after a Lake Coeur d'Alene boating accident has joined her ex-husband in a wrongful-death lawsuit. Nicole Alexander was encouraged to join the suit by her f...
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Father files suit in son's boating death
13-year-old died in July on Lake CdA
October 18, 2008Danial Newlon struggled to learn whether his 13-year-old son was dead or alive after getting a brief phone call and seeing a blip on the news about a boating accident last July on Lake Coeur d'Alen...
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$15 million dollar oral surgery malpractice verdict in favor of dental patient
August 27, 2008A Spokane jury ruled Tuesday that a local dentist was negligent in performing a series of aggressive jaw surgeries in 2000 and 2001 - awarding Kimberly Kallestad a total $14,888,525 million in economi...
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Oral surgery case goes to jurors
Karen Dorn Steele (Staff Writer)
August 22, 2008The lawyers who've dueled for six weeks in a malpractice trial brought by a disabled woman against a Spokane oral surgeon gave their closing arguments Thursday in a packed courtroom in Spokane County ...
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Former patients challenge oral surgeon's testimony
Karen Dorn Steele (Staff Writer)
August 21, 2008Three women treated by Dr. Patrick Collins for jaw problems testified that the Spokane oral surgeon promised to be their "hero" or "savior" - and then turned on them when they reported post-operative ...
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Dentist's former patients will take the stand
Karen Dorn Steele (Staff Writer)
August 20, 2008Judge's decision allows three to testify
A Spokane judge has ruled that three former patients of Dr. Patrick Collins will be allowed to testify this week about their negative exper...
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Lawyer questions data cited by oral surgeon
Karen Dorn Steele (Staff Writer)
August 19, 2008Malpractice trial now in its sixth week
A lawyer in the malpractice trial of Spokane oral surgeon Dr. Patrick Collins challenged Collins' claim that he has an 86 percent success ra...
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Oral surgeon testifies in malpractice trial
Karen Dorn Steele (Staff Writer)
August 15, 2008A Spokane oral surgeon accused of malpractice for a series of jaw operations on a young woman took the stand Thursday in his own defense, saying although he doesn't remember the specifics of his initi...
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More patients ready to testify against oral surgeon
Key ruling due this week in trial
August 12, 2008With the malpractice trial of Dr. Patrick Collins going into its sixth week Monday, the question of whether additional patients can testify who say they also were harmed by the Spokane dentist remains...
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Oral surgeon testifies in malpractice trial
August 10, 2008A Spokane oral surgeon accused of malpractice for a series of jaw operations on a young woman took the stand Thursday in his own defense, saying although he doesn't remember the specifics of his initi...
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Lawyers clash over testimony from patients
Oral surgeon's malpractice trial continues
August 8, 2008The question of whether more former patients of a Spokane oral surgeon should be allowed to testify in a malpractice trial about bad outcomes from jaw surgery erupted in Spokane Superior Court on Thur...
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Oral Surgery Malpractice Trial-Newspaper coverage prompts several former patients of the same oral surgeon to call plaintiff\'s lawyer
August 6, 2008As her lawyers wrapped up their side of a malpractice case Tuesday against Spokane dentist Dr. Patrick Collins, 29-year-old Kimberly Kallestad testified that Collins assured her he'd never had ...
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Woman says dentist left her disabled
August 1, 2008Kim Kallestad can only eat liquid food, can't get a toothbrush in her mouth and spends much of her day in her bedroom. She hasn't been outside for the past two summers, her father said. "Some days, sh...
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Mary Schultz Law-Movin\' on up to 22nd floor
February 22, 2008One of Spokane's prominent attorneys soon will have a penthouse office in one of the city's tallest buildings....
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Litigation Counsel of America
(press release) : Scottsdale, Arizona
November 1, 2007On November 1, 2007, attorney Mary Schultz was inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America at the LCA's Fall Conference and Induction of Fellows. Yhe Litigation Counsel of America is a trial lawye...
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Couple get judgment in finance fraud case Suit alleges breach of contract for resort
March 20, 2007A Spokane couple who planned to build a resort on Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint have gotten an $18.2 million default judgment against a Seattle-area man who promised to help find financing for the ...
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Lawsuit seeks $1.5 million for use of Taser
December 6, 2006For the second time in five weeks, Spokane County is being sued over the use of a Taser stun gun by a sheriff's deputy. Daniel Brian Strange seeks $1.5 million and additional unspecified punitive dama...
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Court upholds bias suit judgment Award amount was $4 million against ABM by Spokane jury
April 22, 2005The Washington Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a Spokane County jury's $4 million award to a woman who said she was subjected to gender discrimination as a manager for ABM Janitorial Services. The...
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Appeals Court says state doesn't have jurisdiction over Greek husband's property
January 5, 2005Spokane County resident Kristi Tsarbopoulos' international legal odyssey continued this week when the Washington Court of Appeals took back part of a victory it gave her last August. "It's just the la...
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Actress drops lawsuit against Cat Tales zoo; South Korean TV personality could refile case, lawyer says
November 13, 2004A South Korean television personality has at least temporarily dropped her lawsuit over a tiger attack at the Cat Tales zoo north of Spokane. Actress Eun Joo Goh's attorney, Jong Yi, moved to dismiss ...
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Suit alleges tiger mauling
April 10, 2004It was a Siegfried & Roy-type mauling, north Spokane County-style, at least according to a lawsuit against Cat Tales Zoological Park. But unlike the case of the Las Vegas magician who was attacked las...
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