Bankruptcy courts have disqualified votes that showed irregularities in tort cases before, particularly when lawyers vote on ...
Chris Jaeger won the award for research on how juries perceive the key legal concept of reasonableness in tort cases.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s selection to run the Health and Human Services Department is being cheered by plaintiffs’ attorneys ...
Brian Roth, CEO of mass tort funder Rocade Capital, says the market is in a digestion phase after capital surged in quickly. ...
Where defendant alleges immunity under section 2-201 of the Tort Immunity Act, it must show how the tort stemmed from defendant’s exercise of discretion or determination of policy.
SPD Lieutenant John O'Neil filed a formal tort complaint against the city of Seattle Monday, alleging retaliation, ...
While tort law’s flexibility positions it to address novel issues posed by AI, gaps in standards and the technology’s ...
They exist at the boundary between public harm and private resolutions: Depending on how you count, between 400,000 and 6 million Americans were part of a mass-tort case last year. You've ...
In Mrs. Clark’s case, said Kenison, “our rule is preferable to that of Vermont. The automobile guest statutes were enacted in about half the states, in the 1920s and early 1930s, as a result ...
The woman's attorney denies this. Peppers' attorney, Marc Brofsky, said during a pretrial hearing in the criminal case against Peppers that the settlement offer, while "technically not extortion, ...