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The Legal Intelligencer

'Blackout Challenge' Case Puts TikTok Immunity in the Bullseye

Anderson v. TikTok sets new parameters for the liability of social media under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. Section 230. The facts of the case are tragic and alarming. Its implications for social media could be far reaching.
11 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$6.56M Wrongful Death Verdict Awarded Against Texas Bar Owners

The jury found Kimbo's Saloon was 60% responsible for Johnell Hornsby's death, according to the charge of the court.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Federal Judge Greenlights Claim of 'Deliberate Indifference' for Inmate's Assault and Death

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia issued an opinion Sep. 25 denying a motion to dismiss by Central Georgia's Baldwin State Prison for claims that their negligence led to inmate Jamari McClinton's death in 2021.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Rejects Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Attempt to Reschedule Upcoming Trial Against Panera's Charged Lemonade

"Defense counsel's whimsical treatment of scheduled trial dates as tentative and subject to change is why the parties are now in a difficult—but not insoluble—position,'" said U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Manhattan Jury Awards $116 Million for Wrongful Death in 2018 East River Helicopter Crash

The award is the largest ever recorded in state history for a wrongful death claim on behalf of a single individual, according to Law.com's VerdictSearch.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Clayton County Jury Returns $17M Verdict After Lawyers Sanctioned

"We look forward to appealing this result so that Honda can eventually have its day in court," said Chris Martin, a corporate communications director for American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

DOJ Sues Owner of Vessel that Destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge

"There is a 53-page complaint and answer, and they detail in it the fact that they believe that they're entitled to be compensated," said one attorney.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Which Comes First: Discretionary or Interlocutory Appeal? High Court Tackles Procedural Dispute

"For you to prevail, I think you need to be able to show that the renewal action is the same 'the case' in which the voluntary dismissal was filed," Presiding Justice Nels S. D. Peterson told appellee counsel during oral arguments.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

Affirmed: $35M Wrongful-Death Verdict Survives City's Appeal

"We have always felt that long standing legal principals in the area of municipal liability supported the verdict," Jed Manton of Harris Lowry Manton in Brookhaven.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Sanctioned; Pleadings Struck: What's Next for Honda?

"The Court believes the defendants" conduct undermined the fairness of the trial and influenced the jury with evidence that was specifically excluded by the Court," read a sanction order issued by Clayton County State Court Chief Judge Michael T. Garrett.
4 minute read

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