Mo. GOP lawmakers refocus their business proposals
NECNDecember 31, 2011
The Republican business agenda for the legislative session that starts this coming Wednesday seeks to keep certain workplace injury spats out of the courts, make it harder to bring employment discrimination suits and shift more of the costs in ...more »
State makes 'judicial hellhole' watch list
Houma CourierDecember 31, 2011
Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, has vowed to push new legislation this year. He said the liability portion of the bill was essential, because it would speed up environmental settlements if companies could pay for ...more »
Kansas City Drug Injury Lawyer Provides Updates on Topamax and Zoloft Cases
DigitalJournal.com (press release)December 30, 2011
The Potts Law Firm, LLP, currently is representing clients in a Mass Tort that is being litigated in the Court, In re Topamax Litigation (CCP Philadelphia County, No. 02131). According to the Court's website, a status conference will be held in the ...more »
12/30/11 civil cases
Inside Tucson BusinessDecember 30, 2011
Law Firm: DOUG ZANES & ASSOCS PLLC. C2011 8851. SCOTT PARKER vs. SYLVIA GOOFRIEND FAIBISOFF; ET AL TORT: MOTOR VEHICLE. Law Firm: DOUG ZANES & ASSOCS PLLC. C2011 8852. US BANK NATL ASSN vs. JOHN STAHL ET AL FORCIBLE DETAINER. Law Firm: HOPP LAW FIRM ...more »
Is there a tort claim for political discrimination?
Talk of the SoundDecember 30, 2011
Some professors I met in college and law school were not even open to hearing conservative viewpoints. My law school was beyond liberal – as I often joked at the time, Ted Kennedy would have been a conservative on the University of Buffalo Law School ...more »
Fort Myers Attorney John Lewis Achieves 20 Years of Florida Bar Certification
PR.com (press release)December 30, 2011
Lewis received his undergraduate degree, law degree and graduate degrees from Florida State University. Henderson Franklin is one of the largest law firms between Tampa and Miami with over 55 attorneys practicing in the areas of business and tax ...more »
Lawsuit over Rwandan genocide appealed in federal court in Denver
Denver PostDecember 30, 2011
But Ved Nanda, a professor of international law at the University of Denver, said Erlinder isn't automatically sunk. Nanda said the Alien Tort law might allow lawsuits against heads of state who commit human-rights atrocities. The 10th Circuit "cannot ...more »
Action by lawmakers vital in order to reduce lawsuit payouts by state
TheNewsTribune.comDecember 29, 2011
He has worked to inform legislators and has repeatedly invited the Legislature to revisit and reform state tort laws. Every major proposal, however, was killed in committee. Neither McKenna nor any of our attorneys can control the facts or severity of ...more »
The Tort of Political Discrimination
The League of Ordinary GentlemenDecember 29, 2011
Thing is, she's quite politically and socially conservative, took her law degree from Ave Maria School of Law, and dedicated part of her early career to advancing a pro-life political and legal agenda. She applied for a position as a legal writing ...more »
Loss of love can result in lawsuit
Salisbury PostDecember 29, 2011
A lot of states feel the alienation of affection law shouldn't exist, either. “Many states got rid of this common law or tort law at the end of the 19th century when states bypassed married women as property,” said Maxine Eichner, a law professor with ...more »
Dodgers Fan Beating Lawsuit Could be Millions if Permanent Brain Injuries...
PR Web (press release)December 29, 2011
As personal injury attorney, Michael Ehline stated, the allegations of permanent injury, if found by a court to be true, would be devastating, since it impacts the person's ability to make decisions, plan and personality. Ehline said, it is easy to ...more »
University of Wisconsin Law School Mourns the Loss of Professor Jane Larson
University of Wisconsin-MadisonDecember 28, 2011
Among Professor Larson's signature scholarly contributions are her Columbia Law Review article on the development and decline of the tort of seduction, which later formed the basis for her co-authored Oxford University Press book, "Hard Bargains: The ...more »
Rick Perry: Tort Reform Hypocrite
InjuryBoard.comDecember 28, 2011
... rights through tort reform. What is your remedy if someone violates your constitutional rights to free speech? To religious freedom? To keep and bear arms? To contract? Or even to be on a Virginia presidential primary ballot? These are civil law...more »
Report names California a 'Judicial Hellhole'
OCRegisterDecember 28, 2011
An Alabama law firm chose California courts in which to sue Taco Bell for false advertising of beef tacos. After the restaurant chain waged an aggressive advertising counterattack, the case was withdrawn. On the same issue, plaintiffs' lawyers filed an ...more »
ALLRUD v. CITY OF EDMONDS
Leagle.comDecember 28, 2011
The issue presented is whether the officer and the 911 dispatch agency owed the woman a duty actionable in tort. The estate would locate the source of such duty in the statute providing for involuntary commitment, one purpose of which is to provide ...more »
