By By Michael Marciano | September 29, 2017
Connecticut's legal community has been eager to assist fellow Americans in Puerto Rico who have experienced a humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Maria hit the island Sept. 20.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Taxicab regulating authority's per-vehicle assessment on partial rights taxicab operators was arbitrary and unreasonable where assessments were derived from an estimate of the number of vehicles that would be in service. Order of the trial court reversed.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Court denied ridesharing company's motion for partial summary judgment on the question of whether drivers, assuming they were employees, were entitled to compensation for the time they spent online on the company's app because a jury could find that drivers were tethered to their phones, were restricted from engaging in personal activities and were not meaningfully in control of their time. Motion denied.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
OOR erred in holding that video recordings made by cameras on an authority bus were not exempt pursuant to the noncriminal investigation exemption where requester sought videos after a vehicle accident that led him to file a property claim against the authority because the recordings, which the authority's claims adjuster reviewed in the course of investigating requester's property damage claim were related to and part of the noncriminal investigation and constituted investigative materials. Reversed.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
The court, in case in which pedestrian was struck crossing train tracks, granted defendant train company's motion for summary judgment regarding plaintiff's claims for negligently exceeding the speed limit, negligently failing to have adequate pedestrian warning, negligent design and maintenance and negligent failure to issue adequate audible warnings and denied the motion with regard to plaintiff's claim for negligent operation of the train. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
By Thomas A. Dickerson | September 28, 2017
Thomas A. Dickerson reviews recent antitrust class actions involving the travel industry brought by or against airlines, in-flight Internet providers, hotels, tour bus companies, ride-sharing companies and online travel sellers and involving various types of alleged marketing misconduct such as resale price maintenance, parallel business behavior, misleading and unfair price guarantees, elimination of competitors and unfairly raising prices, substantial market foreclosures and price fixing.
By Max Mitchell | September 27, 2017
A trucking company has agreed to pay $9 million to settle claims that its driver was using his cellphone before falling asleep at the wheel and colliding with another vehicle.
By Ross Todd | September 27, 2017
Facebook Inc. convinced the Fourth District Court of Appeal to block an criminal defendant's attempt to get non-public user information about a key trial witness.
By John Council | September 26, 2017
The parents of a 13-year-old boy have sued the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America in a Harris County state district court alleging that their son was assaulted by older scouts on a camping trip, including threats that he was going to be "waterboarded" before being knocked unconscious by a punch to the face.
By Ross Todd | September 26, 2017
The complaint runs through a laundry list of legal scandals at the ride-hailing company and claims investors were misled about the lawfulness of Uber's operations.
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