Our sister blog, The Tarnished Twenty, reports that Jason Peters, the left tackle for the Eagles, will be filing a lawsuit after having to undergo a second surgery due to a malfunctioning mobility device. According to the blog, and other news sources, Peters was using the Roll-A-Bout when it collapsed and caused him to retear his Achilles’ tendon. He had surgery on that tendon earlier this offseason.

While Tarnished Twenty covered the possible theories of recovery, the damages issue is also quite complicated. For an NFL player, the obvious source of damages is lost wages. But there other sources of lost income as well as pain and suffering that should be considered as well.

We've all gotten those odd notices. Some class-action settlement has occurred based on some product that we may or may not have purchased years ago, and we are now entitled to a $0.37 share of the proceeds. A lot of people, especially when the amount is a pittance, fail to claim their piece of the pie.

So, what happens to the left over class-action money?

Well, thanks to the newest rules promulgated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the residual funds from a class action award or settlement should now go towards providing legal services for low-income residents of the state, reports the Pennsylvania Record.

Disturbing news has emerged from the basement of a local Philadelphia High School. On May 4, a 15-year-old male student lured a female student into the basement of Germantown High School and sexually assaulted her, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Though a sexual assault in a high school is disturbing enough, the Inquirer also dug up 45 serious incidents at that same high school over a six-year period. Eleven were sex offenses. And it's not just the basement or stairwells. There were 27 sexual assaults throughout the school and nearly 400 serious incidents in general.

Officer Michael Paige bought some time on his civil trial. The federal judge in the case granted a delay until June 25 for the civil-rights trial because the officer, a reservist, is away on military leave. Paige, who is still an active Philadelphia police officer, faces civil liability for the alleged sexual assault of James Harris in his police cruiser in Fairmount Park.

Harris' claims that Paige violated his civil rights by forcing the North Philadelphia man to repeatedly perform oral sex on him in 2007 fell upon deaf ears in the criminal court. The decisive issue in that case was consent. The Judge felt that the acts were consensual.

The Police Department had earlier found the opposite, and had fired Paige, but he was later reinstated after a battle with the Fraternal Order of Police.

They say that correlation does not equal causation. However, at a certain point, when there's enough smoke, when do we begin to worry about putting out the fire?

This blog has been covering the NFL lawsuits extensively. It seems every few months, another tragedy strikes. A former player is diagnosed with ALS and told he only has a few years to live. Another former player commits suicide by shooting himself in the chest.

And now, Junior Seau has done the same.

On Monday, the civil suit against Officer Michael Paige begins, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Officer Paige has been accused and acquitted, in a court of law, of forcing James Harris to perform oral sex three times on a cold May morning in 2008.

The story of the alleged incident, pulled from the civil case filings, contains graphic details for those of you who might be squeamish. James Harris and an unidentified male were in a vehicle at 2:00 am. They had been smoking marijuana while waiting out a snowstorm and were allegedly kissing in their vehicle.

On the eve of trial, the attorneys for the parents of two plaintiffs who died in the horrific boat Duckboat crash in 2010 have released footage of the accident, reports NBC 10 Philadelphia. The crash happened when a Ride the Ducks boat, full of passengers, stalled in the Delaware River.

After being stranded for a short time, an immense tugboat, the Caribbean Sea, crushed the diminutive tour boat, with most of the passengers still on board. Amazingly, only two people died as a result of the crash, which the NTSB has labeled a warning of the “dangers of distraction.”

Judge Gene Pratter released a decision on Monday in a local baby vomit slip and fall case, and the news was not positive for Target.

According to the released court document, Nadyne Timberlake was entering the Target store at 4000 Monument Road when she slipped and fell on a pool of baby puke. Surveillance tape shows Target employees standing near the puke for approximately seven minutes prior to the fall.

Epicureans with an eastern preference will have to look elsewhere in the short-term future. At least two-hundred cases have been reported of salmonella poisoning, all along the East Coast, and all originating from a company’s now recalled “tuna scrape,” reports NBC 10 Philadelphia.

Tuna scrape, which is tuna scraped off of the bones and ground up, is at fault in all of the known cases so far. So far, all of the known cases have been in the eastern half of the United States. The company behind the fishy fish, Moon Marine USA Corp., has recalled 300 tons of tuna. As of now, sushi restaurants and consumers should be extra-cautious, as the fish may also have been sold wholesale and may not be labeled with the company’s name, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

And some question us when we refuse to eat sushi or other raw fish.

There is one guaranteed way to get the attention of even the most convoluted and mismanaged public bureaucracies: go after the money.

Khalil Wimes was three years old when a family law court ordered his foster parents to return him to his birth parents, despite their seven other children being taken away, reports The Inquirer. Khalil was six when he died after years of abuse by his parents. He was still wearing the same tiny red sweater that he was wearing when he left his foster parent's care.