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An Ex-Braves Player Allegedly Shattered a Fan's Eye Socket During a World Series Game. But Will Plaintiff See Her Day in Court?

Lawyers weigh in on whether they think the plaintiff's claims will be barred by the Baseball Rule.
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Daily Report Online

'The Defendant Reaps What it Sows': Savannah Premises Liability Suit Moves Closer to Trial After Appellate Decision

"I think the judge was backed into a corner," plaintiff's counsel Mark Tate said.
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Daily Report Online

Ga. Appellate Premises Liability Opinion Lays Groundwork for the First Civil Sex-Trafficking Trial in State Court

"In general this opens the door to allow clients to bring their claims in their backyards, in their hometowns, in the jurisdictions where it happened to them," said plaintiff-appellee attorney Pat McDonough.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff at Fault for Fall in Fast Food Restaurant: Defense

On Jan. 12, 2018, plaintiff Lena Berry entered a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Langhorne. As she entered the main dining area, she slipped and fell. She claimed she injured her neck, back and ankle.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Worth More Dead Than Alive? Here's What Recent Verdicts Say About Jurors

"I think wrongful-death verdicts are a lot higher than they used to historically be ... but it's so dependent on [the facts of each case]," said plaintiff attorney Jeff R. Harris of Harris Lowry Manton.
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Daily Report Online

Woman Sues Braves Player for Alleged Injuries From Ball Thrown in Stands

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Jury Awards $1.3 Million For Intersection Crash in Essex County

An Essex County jury awarded $1.3 million on Sept. 29 in Terell v. Chitra to a woman who suffered neck, back and shoulder injuries in a motor vehicle accident.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

REVERSED: $3.2M Award Undone Amid Lengthy Dissent Over Stray Cow

The trial court found Victor Ybarra's testimony uncredible; the testimony of an interested witness raises a fact issue, and whether to credit that testimony is a question for the factfinder, Justice Gordon Goodman noted in his dissent.
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Law.com

Maryland Judge Finds Company May Have Had 'Actual Notice' of Hazard in Slip-and-Fall Suit

A federal judge in Maryland denied a government contractor's motion for summary judgment in a slip-and-fall lawsuit, finding a reasonable juror could conclude that the defendants had actual notice of water left on its lobby floor because its employees had been mopping in the area.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Suit: Fall on Defective Stairs Caused Vision Impairment

On Oct. 16, 2019, plaintiff Kathleen Bleakley, 76, was walking toward a clothing boutique in a small strip mall in Wexford. She claimed that she tripped and fell on stairs which caused her to strike her face against a brick windowsill, fracturing her orbital bone.
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