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Showing posts with label jury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jury. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Whitehouse laments mandatory arbitration, civil jury woes; SCOTUS-nominated Jackson does not engage

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I., one of my state senators) just questioned U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the...
Monday, December 27, 2021

After dog bites postman, $375k jury award fits between floor and ceiling of high-low settlement agreement

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Pxhere CC0 In a dog-bites-postman case in Massachusetts, the Appeals Court in late October held that the parties' "high-low"...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

'Error in judgment' jury instruction properly cuts room for doctor to escape liability for delay of surgery

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Ischemic bowel in CT scan ( image by James Heilman, MD , CC BY-SA 3.0 ) A doctor did not commit malpractice by awaiting test results before...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Gruesome bone-in-burger case: verdict remanded for reconsideration of 'reptile,' 'golden rule' arguments

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Willis Lam CC BY-SA 2.0 Reversing and remanding an order for new trial in a personal injury-product liability case over a $5 Wendy'...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Civil rights suit claims a right to education.
The problem might be bigger.

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My UMass Dartmouth colleague in history, Professor Mark Santow , also a member of the Providence, R.I., School Board, is part of litigati...
Friday, October 14, 2016

'Goliath' bursts onto Amazon scene

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Tonight marks the premiere of Goliath on Amazon TV/Video .  Billy Bob Thornton, a native of Bill-Clinton-"Boyhood Home" Hot Spri...
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Big Tobacco wins in Mass. trial for medical monitoring

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Big Tobacco's Philip Morris prevailed in a product liability jury trial in Massachusetts in late September.  Hat tip: Torts Today . Th...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Guest post: Where is tort (anti)reform in politics now?

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Alex Nee, a student in my Torts I class, posted to the class website links to Ralph Nader in Harper's (April 2016) and Michael Shammas&...