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19 Jul 2007, 5:10 am
The AP reports that Governor Deval Patrick showed openness to a deal that would provide for a payment in the neighborhood of $1 billion from Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the manager of the Big Dig tunnel project in Boston. [read post]
19 Jul 2007, 5:06 am
Marianne Pearl, whose husband Daniel Pearl was a Wall Street Journal reporter who was tortured and murdered in 2002, filed suit yesterday against 23 defendants, including a number of reputed terrorists and the Habib Bank Limited of Karachi, Pakistan's largest... [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 10:00 pm
An interesting two-day story, chronicled by The Pump Handle, about OSHA enforcement of guidelines for respiratory masks for first responders and health care workers: Day 1: [T]he House of Representatives will very soon (perhaps later today) be voting on an... [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 8:12 am
The Consumerist blog is live blogging the Senate hearings on safety issues with products from China. [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 4:52 am
CBS News/AP reports that sick 9/11 workers (firemen, police officers, rescue workers, etc.) have sued the World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company. [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 4:31 am
The New York Times reports that 11 big food companies, including McDonald's, Coca Cola and General Mills, have agreed to stop advertising certain products to children under 12. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 7:36 pm
Via Point of Law, an LA Times story covers the California Supreme Court's ruling invalidating waivers in the case of gross negligence. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 5:12 am
Glaxo Smith Kline is threatening some lawyers who are advertising for Avandia clients with cease-and-desist letters. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 4:29 am
The AP/WUSA reports that on Monday, Judge Bartnoff denied the plaintiff's motion to reconsider in the DC Pants Case. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 4:09 am
The U.S. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 2:49 pm
The proper response from the plaintiff's side is asking whether this is an avoidable complication, if proper care is exercised.This trial, by the way, is being live-blogged by a college football blog, The Wizard of Odds (Hat tip, TortsProf).OK, now here is the weird part: The live-blogging of the trial will come out of Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 11:26 am
This time, it's not by a participant, but by a business litigator on a sports blog, covering the retrial of Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 4:27 am
From ABC News (via AP), reports of Avandia side effects (including heart attacks, deaths and hospitalizations) tripled in the month following the New England Journal of Medicine's report on the drug's safety. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 4:11 am
In a news release, the FDA confirmed that salmonella found in the Veggie Booty snack caused an outbreak of illness back in June. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 2:33 pm
With that in mind, TortsProf and amusement park afficienado William Childs points to a story in the New York Post about a spot check done by the paper and some very unhappy findings;Also in the lawsuit waiting to happen arena, Seth at QuizLaw gives us one truck driver with 131 accident claims in six months;At Overlawyered, guest blogger Ron Coleman notes a stampede of doctors to Texas in the wake of tort "reform" that places sharp limits on recoveries. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 11:14 am
Interesting new piece (out now in the Nebraska Law Review) available on SSRN. [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 9:04 am
Kenneth I. [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 7:24 am
The calls to 911 from witnesses to the amputation on the ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom have been released, and they suggest that the cable in question broke while the carriage went up, the cable wrapped around the patron's... [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 3:10 am
The AAJ/ATLA doesn't like the polling that the Chamber of Commerce does on litigation issues, so it's done its own (press release/results here [PDF]). [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 6:36 am
The House yesterday passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, which is close enough to the Senate version that it looks likely to become law. [read post]
