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13 Jul 2007, 6:26 am
A more complete story is here in the Courier-Journal. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 6:24 am
As CTV reports, a Montreal lawyer has filed suit in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of seven Canadians and two Czechs against Andrew Speaker, the TB traveler. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 4:12 pm
In what is not remotely a surprise, the family of Katie Lasitter, the teen whose feet were severed on a ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, filed suit today.... [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 4:32 pm
Business Week has a piece about small businesses and their feelings about litigation risk, framed by the pants lawsuit. [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 5:32 am
A couple of regional updates perhaps of interest generally: Judge Ernest Murphy, who won $2 million in a libel claim against the Boston Herald (recently upheld by the SJC), has had ethics charges filed against him for allegedly trying to... [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 4:16 am
Our neighbor blog about mass tort litigation has a good excerpt from the NYT piece about former Surgeon General Richard Carmona's testimony that public health concerns were repeatedly undercut by Bush administration political concerns. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 11:57 am
That's suggested by a pleading filed back in May: Download 20070529_extension.pdf It appears that Egilman was at that time very close to a settlement, while Gottstein was awaiting the resolution of those talks. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 7:32 am
Michael Dorf is quite skeptical of the claim (noted by Liptak) that contingent fee lawyers working for state AGs or the federal government violates the principle of separation of powers. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 6:36 am
After the second phase of a bifurcated trial, a Washington, D.C., jury decided to award no punitive damages against Allen Iverson and his bodyguard, leaving the total damage award at $260,000. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 6:11 am
Our neighbor TaxProf blog has extensive coverage of the D.C. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 5:57 am
Respectful Insolence has an interesting post about a tort suit being filed by the parents of an autistic child who died after receiving chelation therapy for autism. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 3:59 am
As reported in the International Herald Tribune, a U.S. district court judge held last week that FDA approval of drug labels does not preempt state-law claims for failure-to-warn. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 9:16 pm
Anthony Sebok in his Writ column weighs in on the DC pants suit. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 2:14 pm
The Post has the details about the suit against basketball star Allen Iverson The lawsuit arose out of a bar scuffle between Iverson's bodyguards and two patrons. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 4:58 am
Adam Liptak, in a Sidebar column, writes about the practice of state AGs hiring contingent fee lawyers, and about President Bush's executive order barring such activities at the federal level. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 4:42 am
It is the NY Post, so obviously I hesitate to over-rely on it, but for a new story the paper hired an inspector to walk through the park a week or so after the most recent fatality (posts here and... [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 7:03 am
The Toronto Star reports that at least three passengers who sat near Andrew Speaker, the TB traveler, plan to file suit in Canada next week. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 6:55 am
Listed below are the top 10 downloads for papers posted on SSRN from May 7, 2007 to July 6, 2007 in the Journal of Torts Products Liability Law : Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 187 Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse:... [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 4:58 am
Over the next few days, posting will depend on one of us getting to various small-town libraries during their seemingly random hours on our respective vacations. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 7:13 am
The Supreme Court granted cert in Riegel v. [read post]
