Day on Torts

A motion in limine to prevent your adversary from performing magic tricks in closing argument? Read all about it here from  the Litigation and Trial Blog.

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued the opinion in Wyeth v. Levine,  the product liability case against the manufacturer of Phenergan.  Wyeth appealed from an adverse jury verdict saying that Levine’s failure-to–warn claims were pre-empted by federal law because Phenergan’s label was approved by the FDA. The USSC held that federal…

Lawyer and cartoonist David Mills shares his craft on Courtoons.  An example:   I confess to extreme jealously of lawyers who have talent is any aspect of the world of art or music. 

This post from the New York Attorney Malpractice Blog includes the full text of an article from New York Lawyer titled "Legal Malpractice Cases May Surge as the Economy Tanks." The article says that " [a] recent American Bar Association (ABA) study that looked at legal malpractice claims filed between…

The March 2009 edition of the Tennessee Trial Law Report is in the mail. This edition includes a summary of 20 different cases addressing various aspects of the law of torts, civil procedure, evidence and trial as decided by Tennessee appellate courts between January 15 and February 15, 2009.   The…

Here is an animation of the crash of US Airways 1549 landing in the Hudson River prepared by Scene Systems.  The simulation includes the audio from the pilot and air traffic control. Scene Systems creates animations for litigation of all types.

Kroll Ontrack, an company in electronic discovery and computer forensics business, has compiled a list of the 5 most important of the 138 reported electronic discovery opinions issued from Jan.1, 2008 until Oct. 31, 2008.  A full 25% of the cases address the issues of sanctions. To read a summary…

The American College of Emergency Physicians has released a new clinical policy called  "Clinical Policy: Neuroimaging and Decisionmaking in Adult Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Setting." 

I grew up in Spencer, Wisconsin, a village of about 1000 (less in the 1960 census, more in the 1970 census) in North Central Wisconsin.  The closest city was Marshfield, at eight miles to the south on Highway 13,  which at the time had about 15,000 people, a J.C. Penny store,  a mail order-only Sears…

I admit it:  I am a fan of the Wall Street Journal.  I have read it almost every week day since I was 19, and actually got chill bumps when they started a Saturday edition a couple of years ago.  The editorial page makes me mad as hell every morning, but quite…