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3 Dec 2006, 4:33 am
The Houston Chronicle has the AP story. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 10:24 am
The Pump Handle has an interesting post connecting Exxon-funded research with its recent (relative) win on punitives.... [read post]
16 Feb 2007, 8:05 am
The hospitality industry in San Antonio is no doubt bracing for the arrival of the JPML hearing to be there in March. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 3:19 pm
Jennifer Wriggins (Maine) points out an article potentially of interest to folks into comparative tort law -- Tort Reform A La Francaise: Jurisprudential and Policy Perspectives on Damages for Bodily Injury in France by David Corbe-Chalon and Martin Rogoff, in... [read post]
7 May 2007, 4:26 pm
Interesting sounding new abstract up on SSRN about physician supply in Pennsylvania. [read post]
9 May 2007, 7:30 am
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a webcast (and claims that a transcript will be coming soon) discussing potential reforms of the drug safety process.... [read post]
13 May 2008, 4:53 am
As MSNBC (via AP) reports, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Second Circuit decision allowing an Alien Tort Claims Act suit to proceed against various banks and corporations based on their alleged "aiding and abetting" of the apartheid system... [read post]
28 Jun 2008, 3:54 pm
The Incredibles came out before I started doing this blog (but Overlaywered noted its lawsuits-putting-superheroes-out-of-business premise). [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 10:58 am
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument in the first case on its Oct. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 3:54 pm
We don't usually get to hear a lot about what happens after money is released to satisfy (part of) judgments, but in the Exxon Valdez case, we do: It took better than 19 years for Alaska commercial fishermen and other... [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 6:48 am
Bob Rabin has posted to SSRN Stephen Sugarman and the World of Responsibility for Injurious Conduct. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 1:15 pm
...and they've finally given up on telling the trial judge to come up with a number, instead setting the number for punitives at $2.5 billion (five times the actual harm determined by the trial court). [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 3:42 am
That's the suggestion of Keith Hylton (BU) in this SSRN entry. [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 9:04 am
...the discussion of the case (raised by Chris here) is here, addressing the question under Mississippi law, with tongue perhaps pointed towards the cheek. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 6:56 am
Anthony Franze and I have posted our forthcoming article on SSRN, "Instructing Juries on Punitive Damages: Due Process Revisted After Philip Morris USA v. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 6:38 am
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled earlier today that the University of Virginia does not have charitable immunity for medical malpractice cases. [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 6:19 am
...for being one of a handful of nominees for "Teacher of the Year" at the Charleston School of Law. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 5:39 am
In a story that touches on both criminal and civil cases (and notes the financial influence of civil cases), The Nation this week gives a preview of the upcoming Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's appeal of Paul Shanley, convicted a few... [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 4:42 am
Jonathan Turley reports that a Chicago woman who fell while walking on the floor near a dolphin tank is suing the zoo for "recklessly and willfully trained and encouraged the dolphins to throw water at the spectators in the stands,... [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 3:59 am
The National Law Journal has another take (h/t Overlawyered).... [read post]
