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Hundreds of military service members and contractor employees have reported serious illnesses, including cancer and severe breathing problems, following service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On August 10, 2010, the U.S Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ("JPML") issued a Transfer Order which effectively transfers all federal lawsuits arising out of the enormous BP Oil Spill to the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, which is located in New Orleans.

Dr. Robert Miller, associate professor of allergy, pulmonary and critical care medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has diagnosed multiple patients with constrictive bronchiolitis who have also been exposed to burn pits.

Former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation and Motley Rice aviation attorney Mary Schiavo speaks with MSNBC about the controversy surrounding 3D Body Scanners and how the saving of images collected from these scanners affects passenger rights.

Motley Rice attorney Kevin Dean is representing Obie F. Carlisle in a lawsuit against BP that some say could initiate similar cases against the oil giant. Carlisle alleges that while flounder gigging in Mobile Bay, AL, he was exposed to oil and toxins in the waters that may have caused the "painful rashes, nosebleeds, nasal blockages, shortness of breath, as well as…emotional distress" that he experienced shortly thereafter.

Motley Rice attorneys Ron Motley, Joe Rice, Jodi Flowers and Kevin Dean were in attendance at a 90-minute preliminary court session that allowed trial lawyers to address a special judicial panel regarding how to best bring to order the hundreds of civil lawsuits that have been brought against BP since the April 2010 oil spill.

Recognizing the community's need to arm elementary school students with proper school supplies and essential services, Motley Rice is again proudly supporting Hootie's Homegrown Roundup: Back to School Basics, which provides approximately 1,300 elementary age students from four Charleston, SC schools with school supplies and other services necessary to help them begin the new school year.

Motley Rice is proud to announce that attorney Anne Kearse was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Public Justice Foundation.

CBS News investigates open-air burn pits on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on the many former soldiers and personnel who are reporting chronic and even fatal illnesses that they attribute to exposure to burn pit smoke during their service abroad.

According to an NPR investigation into Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster, a mine electrician was ordered on February 13, 2010, to disable a methane gas monitor on a continuous mining machine, allowing the machine to continue cutting rock without a functional methane monitor.