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Judge Blocks Oklahoma Firm from Selling Execution Drug to Missouri
Feb 13 2014 // A federal judge on Feb. 12 agreed to temporarily block an Oklahoma pharmacy from providing an execution drug to the Missouri Department of Corrections for use in an upcoming lethal injection. The temporary restraining...
Federal Appeals Court: U.S. Has Jurisdiction in Chinese Drywall Suits
Feb 13 2014 // U.S. courts have jurisdiction over claims that a Chinese drywall company’s defective product wrecked homes, and a company that failed to show up in court must pay $2.7 million for damage to seven Virginia couples, a...
Ventura: ‘American Sniper’ Lawsuit Aimed at Insurer, not Widow
Feb 12 2014 // Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura contends he isn’t going after the widow of slain “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle by continuing his defamation lawsuit, but rather the publisher’s insurance...
President’s Delay of Employers’ Healthcare Mandate on ‘Shaky’ Legal Ground: Experts
Feb 12 2014 // The Obama administration may have pushed the bounds of its legal authority by delaying the healthcare law requirement that certain employers provide coverage to full-time workers, but the move will be tough to challenge in...
Garlock Ruling Could Shift Asbestos Litigation in Manufacturers’ Favor
Feb 12 2014 // A judge who found what he called a “startling pattern” of abuse by plaintiffs’ lawyers may have shifted the landscape of asbestos litigation with a ruling in favor of manufacturers. In a decree last...
Lawyers to Appeal Verdict in Flooding Lawsuit Against Louisiana Parish
Feb 11 2014 // Attorneys who brought a class-action lawsuit against Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish say they will appeal a 9-3 jury verdict that found the parish was negligent in its emergency response planning but that the negligence...
Abuse Suits Settled by California Diocese For $3.8M
Feb 11 2014 // A Southern California diocese has paid $3.8 million to settle two child-abuse lawsuits brought against a former Catholic priest. The Diocese of San Bernardino announced Sunday that payments settling the two civil cases...
Environmentalists Hit North Carolina Politics Behind Duke’s Coal Ash Pollution
Feb 11 2014 // Over the last year, environmental groups have tried three times to use the federal Clean Water Act to force Duke Energy to clear out leaky coal ash dumps like the one that ruptured last week, spewing enough toxic sludge...
New Mexico Woman Settles Solitary Confinement Suit
Feb 10 2014 // A woman who says she was kept in a filthy, isolated New Mexico jail cell for months at a time has reached a $1.6 million settlement with Valencia County, attorneys for both sides confirmed. The settlement came after an...
Court Dismisses Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg’s Bailout Lawsuit Against New York Fed
Feb 10 2014 // A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by former American International Group Inc. CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg accusing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of unlawfully bailing out the...
Securities Class Actions Up 9% in 2013, But Below Average
Feb 10 2014 // Plaintiffs filed 166 new federal securities class actions in 2013, a 9 percent increase over 2012. However, the 2013 total is 13 percent below the average from 1997 to 2012, despite a second-half surge. The slump in...
‘Storm’ or Not? Iowa Appeals Court Decides in Mall Lawsuit
Feb 7 2014 // The Iowa Court of Appeals on Feb. 5 weighed into the murky issue of how to define a storm in Iowa when it ruled that a Cedar Falls mall wasn’t at fault for a woman who fell in its parking lot as freezing rain fell in...
Judge: Calfire Owes $30M in 2007 Fire Lawsuit
Feb 7 2014 // A Northern California judge has found the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection guilty of ‘egregious and reprehensible’ conduct in its response to the 2007 Moonlight Fire and ordered the agency...
Settlement Reached in Virginia Meningitis Death Lawsuit
Feb 6 2014 // The family of a Salem man who died of meningitis has settled a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Roanoke, Virginia, clinic. The Roanoke Times reports that Douglas Wingate’s family agreed to settle the...
Nevada Settles Suit With Shackled Pregnant Inmate
Feb 6 2014 // A state board has approved paying $130,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a former Nevada inmate who was shackled while in labor and after giving birth. The Board of Examiners on Tuesday authorized the settlement...
Teen’s Wrongful Death on Hawaii Kayak Tour Lawsuit Settled
Feb 6 2014 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a New York teenager swept out to sea during a Hawaii hiking and kayaking tour has been settled. Michael Madoff, the father of 15-year-old Tyler Madoff, said Tuesday he hopes...
Mothers of Tornado Victims Sue Oklahoma Governor over School Safety Records
Feb 5 2014 // The mothers of two Moore schoolchildren who were killed in last year’s tornado have filed a lawsuit accusing Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin of violating the state’s open records law. The lawsuit was filed in...
Court Denies AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Bid to Remove Judge From New York AG Case
Feb 5 2014 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc., lost his bid to remove a judge from a lawsuit brought in 2005 by the New York state attorney general accusing him of...
West Virginia Agencies Join Lawsuit Alleging Pain Pill Abuse
Feb 4 2014 // Two West Virginia agencies are joining a lawsuit against an Ohio drug company, alleging its negligent practices have helped fuel the state’s pain pill abuse epidemic. The Department of Health and Human Resources and...
Judge Dismisses Kmart’s Mississippi Flood Damage Suit Against Kroger
Feb 4 2014 // A federal judge has dismissed Kmart Corp.’s lawsuit over flood damage to one of its stores in Corinth. U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson ruled that Kmart has insufficient evidence to support its arguments that the...
