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Florida Justices Question Whether Time Is Right to Adopt Daubert Standard

In a closely watched asbestos case, Florida Supreme Court justices seemed unsure about switching away from the Frye standard.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Landmark UK Case: Companies May Be Liable for Subsidiaries' Human Rights Abuses

Recently, a landmark United Kingdom case has made it clear that U.K.-based parent companies may be found liable for human rights violations committed by their foreign subsidiaries. Plaintiffs all over the world are filing lawsuits seeking to hold parent companies responsible for the extraterritorial conduct of their subsidiaries.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Missouri Supreme Court Hears Venue Arguments in Talc Case

At issue is whether the St. Louis judge overseeing the case, abused his discretion in allowing a plaintiff who originally sued in St. Louis County Circuit Court, located in Clayton, Missouri, to go to trial in the city of St. Louis.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protections With Respect to Outside Consultants

Stephen DalyNearly every lawyer shares one fear in common: the inadvertent waiver of the attorney-client privilege. Last summer, in BouSamra v. Excela Health, 167 A.3d 728 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2017), the Superior Court of Pennsylvania held that a company waived the attorney-client privilege when it forwarded an email containing legal advice to one of its consultants, a public relations firm.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Eco-Claims and Green Branding: The Importance of Being Earnest

As consumers are becoming more sensitive to the environment, companies are trending toward branding their goods and services with eco-friendly claims such as “carbon-neutral,” “natural” and the like.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami Lakes Litigator Disbarred for Years of 'Obnoxious' Behavior

Now-disbarred attorney Robert Ratiner faced three different Florida Bar discipline cases for behavior such as calling opposing counsel a "dominatrix" and going on a courtroom tirade.
3 minute read

The Recorder

California Supreme Court Allows Landmark Lead Paint Ruling to Stand—for Now

The state's high court declined to review a ruling against major manufacturers of lead paint that held them liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in remediation costs.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Title Washing: The Case of the Disappearing Mineral Rights

Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed on appeal a hunting club's ownership of a tract of land in its entirety—including both surface and subsurface rights—over the objections of a prior owner's heirs.
6 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Ohio AG Sues DuPont, Chemours in Chemical Dumping Case

Ohio's attorney general on Thursday sued DuPont and its spin-off Chemours Co. for restitution and damages over the companies' dumping of a toxic chemical from a plant in West Virginia.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Under New DOJ Policy, FDA Guidance Documents Cannot be Used to Prosecute Cases

On Jan. 25, the associate attorney general of the United States issued a policy that prohibits the Department of Justice (DOJ) civil litigators from using guidance documents to establish violations of law in civil enforcement actions.
6 minute read

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