An influx of cases against manufacturers of duodenoscopes have entered the District Court of Central California after a number of patients at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center contracted serious, and often deadly infections from the use of duodenoscopes. Duodenoscopes…
After two months and more than 35,000 votes The Expert Institute’s first-ever Best Legal Blog Contest has finally come to an end. We were amazed at the response the contest received from the 250 blogs and bloggers who took part…
Walker was 40 years old when he died. He was riding as a passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT that crashed on a California street. Walker’s daughter Meadow (16) filed the lawsuit. It claims the car lacked safety features that…
Many of us will remember the notorious Ford Pinto, which made headlines in the 1970’s and 1980’s with revelations about its terribly vulnerable fuel tank located near the rear bumper, with resulting fuel-fed fires in rear-impact accidents coast-to-coast. I testified…
A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern California U.S. District Court involving Twitter and its direct message feature. The class action stems from privacy concerns regarding Twitter tracking links that are sent through these direct messages. Twitter…
A yet to be tested state law in California has given way to an influx of consumer litigation against tech companies with automatically renewing subscription services. The 2010 California statute in question prohibits such automatic renewal charges without affirmative consent…
The Berlin-based music streaming service SoundCloud is being sued by the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS). They are a group that represents musicians and publishers in the UK. PRS claims that SoundCloud has failed to obtain the proper license…
The UCLA Health System class action was filed against the University of California, Los Angeles, after a data breach put the private information of 4.5 million patients in jeopardy. The lawsuit, filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, states the UCLA…
The Depakote class action has emerged recently, targeting the manufacturer’s anticonvulsant drug that has been prescribed to hundreds of thousands of Americans to treat epilepsy, bipolar mania, and migraines. The Depakote class action was filed in response to birth defects allegedly…
A class action lawsuit has been filed against AshleyMadison.com, a popular Canadian website that facilitates extra-marital affairs. This is after a recent breach of the site’s data systems exposed the personal information of about 39 million current and former users.…