A Los Angeles judge has blasted an asbestos litigation firm for refiling a Texas case in California where the standards for a defendant to obtain summary judgment are more exacting.
Editor William Baldwin calls attention to an epidemic in a commentary piece in the May issue of Forbes: foodborne illness. It “sickens 76 million Americans a year, kills…
A South Florida law firm that’s been handling complaints from homeowners about Chinese-made drywall has reportedly found that its own office walls are covered in the stinky materials.
After a six-week trial in a products liability case over a Ford Explorer rollover accident, the forewoman of a jury in Brownsville, Texas, sent a note to the judge on…
An Arizona appeals court has upheld a $25,000 sanction against a construction law firm that trumpeted to potential clients, without mentioning the exact amount, a confidential settlement of a homeowner…
Updated: It now appears that it wasn’t merely a document but a PowerPoint presentation on legal costs allegedly purloined by an unknown person from a 2004 Sherwin-Williams board meeting that…
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled in a novel case that a sperm bank may be sued under product liability laws for failing to detect that a sperm donor…
A law firm that represents patients who took the antipsychotic drug Seroquel has revealed documents about a hush-hush study showing patients who took the medicine had a risk of weight…
Corrected: Winston & Strawn has represented Wyeth in at least one case claiming the company’s diet drug fen-phen caused health problems. Now a junior partner at the law firm has…
Justice John Paul Stevens declined to participate in the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to hear three cases involving Agent Orange yesterday, prompting questions about whether his son’s cancer death was…
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