The Business Insider: “Lawsuits filed by consumers against big business took off in the 1990s in the golden era of tort ligitation. In 1994, a 79-year-old woman won $2.86 million for spilling scalding hot McDonalds coffee on her lap. Since then, lawsuits targeting big businesses have become common. Thankfully, most have at least [...]
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From the “It’s a quagmire we should pull out department” – Wall St. Journal: “A group of Chicago high schoolers and their parents sued the Chicago Public Schools, arguing that the school system has effectively locked them into a dangerous situation by not allowing the students to transfer to other schools. The parents involved in [...] Courthouse News Service: “A South Carolina license plate bearing the image of a cross before a stained-glass window and the phrase ‘I Believe’ violates the separation of church and state, a federal judge ruled. The license plate was established by a state law called the ‘I Believe’ Act, which Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer [...] Courthouse News Service: “Environmental groups are applauding a 9th Circuit decision rejecting a land exchange that would have cleared the path for the world’s largest landfill adjacent to Joshua Tree National Monument. The National Parks Conservation Association, Desert Protection Society and others challenged the land exchange, proposed by Kaiser Eagle Mountain and [...] Nation’s Restaurant News: “A New Jersey Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Denny’s Corp. of perpetrating fraud by not disclosing the amount of sodium in its food. The lawsuit, the first sodium-related case against a restaurant company, was filed this summer by a New Jersey man with help from the Center [...] Above the Law: “Our long, national, helium induced nightmare is almost over. CNN is reporting that Richard and Mayumi Heene — parents of Falcon “Balloon Boy” Heene — will plead guilty tomorrow“ Digital Media Lawyer Blog: “A judge in the Southern District of New York has upheld a clause contained in a click-wrap user agreement that required any suit regarding use of the Match.com site to be brought in north Texas. The opinion actually commended Match.com for including this forum selection clause in its User [...] Arizona Republic: “Burger King’s franchisees are taking their fight against the company over sandwich pricing to court. The National Franchisee Association filed a suit this week in U.S. District Court in Miami against Burger King, arguing that the company does not have the authority, under the franchisees agreement, to ‘dictate maximum pricing.’ The [...] Lowering the Bar: “The Washington Supreme Court has agreed to hear Helen Immelt’s claim that the city of Everett violated her First Amendment rights when it convicted her of excessive honking. As I noted this summer, the state court of appeal ruled against Immelt in June, holding that “horn honking per se” is [...] Digital Media Lawyer Blog: “Can a physician be held liable for disclosing “before and after” photographs of one of his patients to a third party, if the photos don’t show her face or state her identity? According to a judge in the Eastern District of Missouri, is ‘yes’ — but only if the [...] Styleweekly.com: “A former worker at Williams Mullen is suing the law firm, charging sexual harassment and discrimination in U.S. District Court. The lawsuit, filed in Norfolk on Nov. 4, asks for $950,000 in punitive damages plus legal fees. . . . The suit describes what’s referred to as the ‘cucumber incident‘ . . [...] Kentucky.com: “The former attorney for accused killer Steve Nunn has filed a lawsuit against unnamed defendants who posted comments about her on Kentucky.com, a Web site operated by the Lexington Herald-Leader.” Law.com: “A federal jury on Tuesday awarded more than $6.2 million in an age discrimination suit brought by two scientists who said they were fired from their jobs at a Chester County, Pa., chemical manufacturing firm when the company targeted only older workers in layoffs in 2005. Significantly, the jury concluded that PQ [...] Law.com: “The State Bar of California’s crackdown on attorneys for alleged loan modification misconduct has claimed five more lawyers in Southern California, three of whom have resigned. Since the State Bar of California launched its Loan Modification Task Force in April, 14 attorneys have resigned or been placed on involuntary inactive status. About [...] Wall St. Journal: “There’s nothing like a good old fashioned separation-of-church-and-state case to get a community all riled up. Politicians hurl barbs; interest groups from the right and left make brazen accusations; TV talk-show hosts lean just a little closer to the camera when they make their appeals. And bloggers, well, we eat [...] Law.com: “We’re betting that no one was more relieved by Verizon’s Nov. 2 defeat of a $1.67 billion ERISA class action than a former Bell Atlantic in-house lawyer named Barry Peters. Peters, as he testified at a September hearing in the case, was responsible for the typographical error in the Bell Atlantic ERISA [...] Law.com: “A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes his former [...] New York Injury Cases Blog: “It’s got to stop at some point. Some “fans” are trying to ruin our national pastime – the game of baseball. Spectator lawsuits have been going on for quite some time, as we discussed just last week, here. Now, there’s a brand new case and I’ll tell you [...] Yahoo News: A court entered a default judgment against PepsiCo for $1.26 billion after the company failed to file an answer to a lawsuit alleging that PepsiCo stole an idea for bottled water. Lawyers for PepsiCo convinced the judge to set the judgment aside and allow the company to defend the lawsuit on [...] Westchester Magazine: “When the human resources department at Richard Michaels’s job told him that he’d been accused of sexual harassment, he was confused. The representative told Michaels, a manager at his company, that one of the employees he oversaw alleged that he had kissed her. Experts agree that forcible touching of employees by [...] A Delaware bankrupcty court approved a settlement in of a class action lawsuit that requires American Corrective Counseling Services, a California debt-collector, to pay $2.55 million. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of thousands of Pennsylvania residents who claimed the debt collector sent them letters that implied that they had to pay money to avoid criminal charges for [...] Technology & Marketing Law Blog by Eric Goldman: “In my world, we have an honor code among geeks–thou shalt not harm other geeks. As you can imagine, then, I was a little sad to see geek-on-geek litigation like this one, where auto parts geeks are suing computer geeks. Can’t we geeks all get [...] The Macomb Daily: “A man who was shot and allegedly beaten by party store operators he had just robbed was ordered Monday to post a $10,000 bond in order to continue his lawsuit against them.” Above the Law: “For the first time in over three years of operation, Above the Law has been sued. We feel the lawsuit has no merit, but we will not comment further on this ongoing litigation.” See the complaint. Law professor Eugene Volokh takes a dim view of the plaintiff’s case in ”Prof. Donald Jones’ [...] Lowering the Bar: “As I wrote this past summer, a number of lawsuits have been filed in California over the past couple of years by people who say they were deceived by certain representations on cereal boxes. Specifically, plaintiffs including Janine Sugawara, Mark McKinniss and Keith Videtto have alleged they were led to [...] The Weekly Standard: “The case of the flying imams who were removed in November 2006 from a USAirways flight in Minneapolis for questioning by law enforcement authorities concluded in the Minnesota federal district court before Judge Ann Montgomery. The parties arrived at a settlement of the case on October 20 in a court-supervised [...] Cnet News: “A federal appeals court overturned a ruling against adware maker WhenU that held it violated the trademarks of vision specialist 1-800-Contacts in the sale and distribution of pop-up advertising. The ruling, delivered Monday by the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals, reversed an earlier decision that confined WhenU from selling pop-ups triggered [...] LawyersandSettlements.com: “For those concerned about the health implications of bisphenol-A (BPA), the focus has been on things like plastic water bottles, baby bottles or even lined aluminum water bottles. . . . Consumers would be wise, to be wary of receipts. Many of us carry them in our wallets, and come in contact [...] Radio Online: “Jurors in the wrongful death suit against Entercom and KDND-FM in Sacramento have awarded a whopping $16.6 million to the family of Jennifer Strange. Strange, 28, died nearly three years ago after finishing second in 107.9 The End’s ‘Hold Your Wee For a Wii,’ the now infamous bladder buster stunt put [...] |
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