President Obama has ordered federal agencies and departments to strike pre-emption language from regulations unless it can be legally justified, a move that has won applause from trial lawyers.
A class action lawsuit filed today against Costco Wholesale Corp. contends the national retailer has a routine store-closing policy that not only allegedly violates California labor laws but amounts to…
A lawsuit filed by a Louisiana woman over foot injuries she allegedly suffered while shopping at her local Wal-Mart store has made international headlines because of the claimed cause of…
Robert Friedrich went to Fetterman & Associates in 2003 seeking representation in an auto accident case. But after his chair collapsed in a conference room at the North Palm Beach,…
Updated: At least one parent of a Florida schoolchild has sued over “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” after guards at three separate state prisons zapped visiting children…
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.
His ship’s high-profile story had a relatively happy ending, except for the alleged pirates accused of taking the American captain hostage near Somalia.
Trial lawyers can learn a few things from Susan Boyle, the dowdy-looking, unemployed woman who surprised judges on Britain’s Got Talent with her angelic singing voice.
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…
Decades ago, the groundbreaking Tarasoff decision made the tort law casebooks after the California Supreme Court found that a treating psychotherapist had a duty to warn a third party of…
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