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  Dangers of drug patches overlooked
by: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times 
August 27, 2007
Sales of Ortho Evra, the first birth-control patch, plunged last year after the FDA cautioned that it exposed women to higher levels of a hormone linked to dangerous blood clots than do oral contraceptives.
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  Pact reached in garbage dispute
by: Chris Metinko, Oakland Tribune
July 27, 2007
Prompted by three weeks of missed trash collection and accumulating containers of rotting garbage, the class-action complaint was filed on Simon’s behalf in Alameda County Superior Court and seeks to force Waste Management to repay customers for missed service during the labor dispute. Compensation and damages also are demanded.

The proposed class of plaintiffs includes thousands of Waste Management customers in Alameda County cities and unincorporated areas. They paid quarterly collection bills but didn’t receive service.
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  Her dog sick, woman sues over garbage
by: Christopher Heredia, San Francisco Chronicle
July 27, 2007
Garbage hauler Waste Management’s legal troubles mounted Thursday as a Castro Valley resident who claims her dog got severely ill from eating rotting garbage filed a lawsuit alleging the company’s three-week-old lockout of truck drivers has created a public nuisance.
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  Castro valley woman sues waste management
by: KCBS, 740 AM
July 26, 2007
Cindy Simons and her neighbors have paid for garbage service they have not received, according to a law suit filed against Waste Management in Alameda County Superior Court today.
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  Regional: Update: Garbage talks continue, lawsuit filed
by: cbs5.com, KPIX TV
July 26, 2007

Castro Valley resident Cindy Simons filed a class action lawsuit against Waste Management in Alameda County Superior Court today on behalf of thousands of East Bay consumers who say they paid their quarterly collection bills in a timely fashion but didn’t receive the collection services they paid for.

The lawsuit, filed by the San Francisco law firm Andrus, Liberty and Anderson, seeks to force Waste Management to repay consumers for missed collection services and for the expenses many residents and businesses ran up while being left to get their garbage and recycling removed on their own.

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  Simons v. Waste Management (Alameda County Garbage Class Action):
July 26, 2007
Oakland, CA - A Castro Valley resident has filed a class action complaint in Alameda County Superior Court today against Waste Management on behalf of customers who have paid for trash collections they never received. The suit titled Simons v. Waste Management was filed by Andrus Liberty & Anderson LLP on behalf of thousands of East Bay consumers who paid their quarterly collection bills in a timely fashion, but then did not receive the service they paid for.
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  Ortho Evra Birth Control Litigation
by: 2 KTVU.com
In this video clip, Attorney Lori E. Andrus speaks to television reporter Priya David about the dangers of the Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch.
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