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Connecticut Law Tribune

Student Awarded $40K Following Scissors Injury

A New Haven student who received a permanent facial injury when he was 11 years old was awarded more than $40,000 after a Superior Court judge found one of the city's magnet schools was negligent.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Certification of Permanency: Important Policy With Unfair Unintended Consequences

There should be an exception for injured parties whose treating physician won't sign a certification of permanency for reasons unrelated to his opinion on the injury.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: 'Claire Dire' Looks Back on Jury Duty | Would a Political Convention Starring Trump Be Bad for Business?

Sen. Claire McCaskill live-tweets her jury duty and lobbyists consider the fallout for their clients during a Donald Trump presidential nomination: This is a round-up of news from ALM and other outlets.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Blackwell v. Vasilas

By | January 26, 2016
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Liquor Store Detour Thwarts Injury Claim Against Car Owner

A Newark woman who tasked her brother with taking her car to pick up her daughter cannot be held liable for the crash that occurred after he stopped off to buy—and drink—enough scotch to push his blood alcohol level to nearly four times the legal limit, a New Jersey trial judge has ruled.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Wields Honed Mode-of-Operation Standard in Dismissal

In another casualty of the state Supreme Court's recently refined mode-of-operation doctrine, an appeals court has deemed it in applicable to a woman who slipped on a stray berry while shopping at Burlington Coat Factory.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Wields Honed Mode-of-Operation Standard in Dismissal

In another casualty of the state Supreme Court's recently refined mode-of-operation doctrine, an appeals court has deemed it in applicable to a woman who slipped on a stray berry while shopping at Burlington Coat Factory.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Suit Alleging Injury After Move Allowed to Proceed

A Queens judge denied a property owner's motion to dismiss a slip-and-fall lawsuit filed by an elderly tenant who was injured at an apartment where she was moved temporarily for repairs but which the defendants did not own.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

2 Important Exceptions to General Rules of Premises Liability

There are two important exceptions to the general rules of premises liability and the Texas Supreme Court ran through them again last year in Austin v. Kroger Texas.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Impact of 'Obergefell' on Wrongful Death Claims

By affording same-sex couples the right to marry in Texas and mandating the recognition of lawful same-sex marriages in other states, Obergefell and DeLeon seem to make clear that same-sex spouses are entitled to bring wrongful death, loss of consortium and loss of household services claims on the "same terms and conditions" previously reserved exclusively for marriages between a man and woman.
5 minute read

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