Here is a great decision out of the state of Illinois, home of the World Champion White Sox. (I never thought I would type that phrase.) The Fourth Division of the Illinois Court of Appeals said that “plaintiffs presented evidence that one result of the budget cuts mandated by defendant…
The Government Printing Office has a host of information for you. Government Printing Office which provides electronic access to Federal Government documents. The site gives you access to official, published versions of legislative, executive and judicial documents, including the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and Presidential Materials. For example,…
Insurance Journal reports this: “There is no credible evidence to link the tort system either to the economic ills its critics claim or to the benefits they argue would be produced by altering it, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute.” The article goes on to say…
The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided Brown v. Crown Equipment Co., a case that asked the Court to give us a further understanding of the McDaniel opinion on expert testimony that it released a few years ago. Brown involves an injury related to a forklift; the trial judge excluded two…
The jury in the NJ Vioxx case retired for deliberations at short time ago (it is now 2:35 CDT). Here is a summary of Chris’ closing argument.
A friend who is getting ready to file a medical negligence case told me that his medical consultant said this about the case: “It took a whole group of doctors to kill this woman.” The consultant was not suggesting that the doctors conspired to hurt, much less “kill”, the patient.…
Closing arguments are today – read this article from Bloomberg for the latest summary of recent events and thoughts of other lawyers about the case.
Closing arguments in the New Jersey Vioxx trial are expected to begin on Monday, according to news reports. The lawyers are working with the trial judge on jury instructions today. The trial has lasted seven weeks. Predictably, there has not been as much press about this case as the one…
I have not posted any blue-chip tort cases lately. There is no particular reason for my failure to do so; there has just been a good deal of other information out there to post. (For those of you who are new to this blog you can read about “blue-chippers” here.)…
Do you what $146,604 represents? It is the amount of money both Exxon and Shell made every minute of every hour of every day last quarter. Or $2443 every second. But who’s counting.