By Mason Lawlor | July 14, 2022
The appeals court found that, because the new lawsuit sounds in tort, it is not a compulsory counterclaim barred by the doctrine of res judicata.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Shohin Vance and Francis G. Notarianni | July 14, 2022
Persuading the Supreme Court to take your case requires a unique—and sometime counterintuitive—type of advocacy.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Samuel H. Pond | July 14, 2022
Punitive damages and other penalties in the legal system need to be wielded with a frequency and severity that make them the deterrent they were intended to be.
By Mason Lawlor | July 14, 2022
The Nevada Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by the state's Eighth Judicial District Court to deny a motion to amend a wrongful death complaint filed by children whose parents died in an arson attempt at a casino.
By Brad Kutner | July 13, 2022
"[Jonathon] Moseley has asked anyone who will listen if they would be willing to cover this civil lawsuit but so far has found no one," the attorney wrote in a filing Wednesday night.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joel R. Brandes | July 13, 2022
Effective July 1, 2022, the matrimonial rules were revised to specifically incorporate 22 NYCRR Part 202 (see AO142/22, amended on June 13, 2022), which contains many of the commercial division rules effective Feb. 1, 2021.
By Marianna Wharry | July 12, 2022
In January 2018, Pierce County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel McCartney was fatally shot when he responded to a home invasion alone, and his family filed a suit in February 2021 alleging that McCartney faced "unreasonable working conditions" due to staffing shortages, the opinion said.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Howard J. Bashman | July 11, 2022
This month's column will summarize five cases: the one case on direct review from the Third Circuit and the four cases in which the Supreme Court sided with the Third Circuit's approach entirely or mostly.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Peter Vaira | July 11, 2022
In the opinion of many attorneys, Cyril Wecht is one of the major reasons the science of forensic pathology is now so important in the fact-finding process of the law.
By Marianna Wharry | July 8, 2022
In a matter of first impression that found the court looking to the recent high-profile defamation trial involving Hollywood exes Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, a federal judge has held that attorney fees cannot be recouped under the state's anti-SLAPP statute where the complaint was voluntary dismissed by the plaintiff.
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