There are 23 lawsuits nationwide against inferior vena cava (IVC) filter manufacturer R.C. Bard that are seeking to consolidate in an MDL, with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation debating the matter in an upcoming hearing session on July 30.…
On June 29, 2015, the Supreme Court decided a controversial death-penalty case involving Oklahoma’s use of midazolam, a sedative, in its executions of prisoners. Finding that the use of the drug did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel…
Last week, the Supreme Court made it unlawful to prevent same-sex marriage. Obergefell v. Hodges 576 U.S. ___ (2015). This landmark ruling is the culmination of several cases challenging state laws or policies that discriminated against same-sex couples. Such as…
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan is reportedly paying between $250-$350 an hour to an expert witness in his suit against Gawker to read old Gawker posts and analyze them. Michael Foley, a professor of journalism at the University of Florida, is…
In a surprising decision, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn tentatively ruled that interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao must pay her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, $275,966 to defray legal expenses from…
On June 16th five visiting Irish college students and another from California were killed, and seven others seriously injured. This occurred after a fifth-floor balcony collapsed. The balcony is located just blocks from the University of California, Berkeley campus. Officials…
The interdiction trial of New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans owner Tom Benson came to a conclusion on June 12th. The 87-year-old Benson is being sued by his daughter, Renee, and her two children. They claim that the changes Benson…
A guilty verdict for a home invasion robbery has been remanded to the county court level by a Pennsylvania state Superior Court on the basis that the defendant was improperly denied the opportunity to call an expert witness to the…
On April 2, 2015, Eric Harris was shot and killed by a volunteer sheriff’s deputy after Harris fled from law enforcement officers following a gun sting operation. The volunteer sheriff, 73 year-old Robert Bates, claims he accidentally shot the unarmed…
Robert Durst, the millionaire scion of a New York real estate empire, is most famous for being implicated in three murders over the span of three decades. Durst’s first alleged crime dates back to 1982 when his first wife, Kathie,…