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30 Jul 2007, 7:21 am
That's the message of a Post story today. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 10:57 am
The LA Times reports that plaintiffs' lawyers have aggressively pursued victims of the Metrolink crash: In the weeks since Metrolink Train 111 crashed head-on with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, killing 25 and injuring at least 130 others,... [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 1:38 pm
A group of neighbors in Ontario have filed a class action against multiple parties for loss of property values due to water contamination. [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]
15 Mar 2023, 12:36 pm
Marin Scordato has posted to SSRN Three Kinds of Fault: Understanding the Purpose and Function of Causation in Tort Law. [read post]
23 Oct 2006, 3:51 am
An interesting instance of liability modifications in a legislative race came up in Illinois. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 9:13 am
So says The American Lawyer, sort of anyway. [read post]
15 Aug 2007, 5:02 am
Another plug for the upcoming punitive damages symposium being held Friday, September 7th here in Charleston. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 7:14 am
Two interesting recent posts/newsletters related to damage awards in tort litigation: The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog discusses a 2003 study that found interesting -- and not necessarily intuitive -- relations among a plaintiff's race, a plaintiff's income, and damage awards.... [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 2:05 pm
The family of the young man killed at Six Flags Over Georgia had said pretty emphatically that they weren't blaming the park (here ("All we know is that we don't blame anybody. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 9:47 am
A ways back, I posted a link to a YouTube video of Joe Jamail taking a deposition that got a bit out of hand. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 1:13 pm
Brandon Mayfield, wrongfully accused of being involved in the Spanish commuter bombings, settled (see also CNN) his lawsuit against the government for $2 million. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 5:12 pm
It's subscription-only, so I haven't read the whole thing yet, but this JAMA article promises to be interesting. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 2:58 pm
The new issue of the Arizona Law Review is all about economic torts. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 5:03 pm
CBS News is reporting that a professor at Ashland University has found very high levels of lead in a variety of Halloween-themed products, including "ugly teeth" which, as you might suspect, are made to go in a child's mouth. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 5:54 am
A member of my first Torts class (a great group!) [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 6:41 am
Yesterday, Cathy Sharkey posted Products Liability Preemption: An Institutional Perspective on SSRN. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 6:29 am
On Wednesday, Sheila posted that Nicholas Cage was suing Kathleen Turner for defamation in London's High Court based on a few sentences Turner wrote in her autobiography. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 4:26 am
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Virginia unanimously ruled that foundations set up to administer the clinical practices of faculty at public medical schools are not eligible for charitable immunity. [read post]
22 May 2008, 4:57 am
I took a CPR course yesterday and was surprised to learn of the scope of many "Good Samaritan" laws (statutes passed to give some form of legal protection to emergency rescuers). [read post]
