Reason

Plaintiff's Idaho Murder Libel Claim Beats Defendant's "Tarot Readings" and "Psychic Intuition"

"[T]he only support for Defendant's statements about Plaintiff is that Defendant's 'spiritual investigation' into the murders using 'intuitive tarot readings' led her to Plaintiff." From today's ...

Going Against a Hometown Hero: How a Plaintiff Secured a $10M Verdict for a North Georgia Crash

The plaintiff, Mondarius Addison, is Black and was filing suit in a majority white county. According to Addison's attorneys ...
JD Supra

Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Complaint Granted in Part

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Plaintiffs James and Lucretia Sarjeant brought suit in California state court following Mr. Sarjeant’s diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma.
Inman

Defendant, plaintiffs in Nosalek commission case unite against DOJ

Defendant MLS PIN and plaintiffs Jennifer Nosalek, Randy Hirschorn and Tracey Hirschorn asked a district court judge for permission to respond to a statement of interest the DOJ filed in the case ...
JD Supra

General Release That Was Entered Because of Defendant’s Fraudulent Misrepresentations Held Not To Be Enforceable

We have written frequently about the substance and scope of general releases.[1] In New York, “a valid release constitutes a complete bar to an action on a claim which is the subject of the ...
Reason

Court Allows Plaintiff to Proceed Pseudonymously, Without Disclosing Name to Defendant

From Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal's decision in N.D. Human Rights Coalition v. Patriot Front, which was handed down under seal early this year and was then released (with modest redactions) in ...
USA Today

The Tools Plaintiffs and Defendants Are Increasingly Using At Lawsuit Settlement

When the parties to a lawsuit come to an initial agreement on the terms of a financial settlement, it’s easy to think that the attorneys’ hard work is done. The truth is, that agreement act kicks off ...