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Securities Litigation Attorney Texas
Judge again refuses to dismiss suit against Marine recruiters
A federal judge has again refused to dismiss the ongoing lawsuit by two Ukiah area women who say local Marine recruiters sexually abused them when they tried to join the Marines. The recruiters were discharged from the Marines after military trials but the women -- who say they still want to enlist but are afraid to -- want the Marine Corps to do more when hiring and training recruiters to ensure that such behavior is not repeated in the future. They allege that inappropriate sexual contact with recruits is a common problem in the Marines. Marine Corps attorneys tried to get the suit dismissed on a variety of technical grounds, one of which the court agreed with, but which does not rise to a level at which the entire suit was dismissed. The court gave the women's attorneys time to resubmit their argument on that point.
Mother and girlfriend of dead servicman feud over his remains
PORTLAND (AP) � A battle over custody of the remains of an Iraq veteran who died after a bar disturbance in Texas has boiled down to claims of love, greed and the freewheeling common-law marriage laws of the Lone Star State.
Shawn Michael Freese, 28, was working as a bouncer in a bar popular with University of Texas students near Austin on Jan. 14 when he died after a fracas.
The bar employee he lived with for 18 months, Kimberli Uranga, and with whom he has an infant daughter, is claiming Freese�s body and wants him buried in Texas. She is claiming rights as a common-law wife and says he wanted a Texas burial.
Shawn�s mother, Cheryl Freese, who lives in the Portland suburb of Beaverton, wants his body sent to Oregon. She contends common law does not apply in the case, and that Uranga has designs on her son�s Social Security and veterans� benefits.
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