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Businesses file first in series of lawsuits against competitors
Sep 4 2006 // Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to court in August, filing the first in a series of lawsuits accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair advantage. Anti-illegal...
Michigan shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
Sep 4 2006 // Courts and legislatures around the country are taking a serious look at the problems created by the consolidation of mass tort cases, like the asbestos and silica litigation. The Michigan Supreme Court provided the latest...
Michigan Supreme Court shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
Sep 4 2006 // Courts and legislatures around the country are taking a serious look at the problems created by the consolidation of mass tort cases, like the asbestos and silica litigation. The Michigan Supreme Court provided the latest...
Case Law Watch
Sep 4 2006 // Actions and Proceedings Brannon v. Continental Casualty Co. (Alaska court, June 9, 2006, Unpublished) Ruling: The trial court had dismissed the injured party’s action against the insurer based on statute of...
News Currents
Sep 4 2006 // The lawsuits were an attempt to enforce immigration law by creating a deterrent against hiring illegal employees. Businesses file first in series of lawsuits against competitors Frustrated businesses took their fight...
Michigan Supreme Court shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
Sep 4 2006 // Courts and legislatures around the country are taking a serious look at the problems created by the consolidation of mass tort cases, such as asbestos and silica litigation. The Michigan Supreme Court provided the latest...
Michigan shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
Sep 4 2006 // Courts and legislatures around the country are taking a serious look at the problems created by the consolidation of mass tort cases, like the asbestos and silica litigation. The Michigan Supreme Court provided the latest...
Case Law Watch
Sep 4 2006 // Actions and Proceedings Brannon v. Continental Casualty Co. (Alaska court, June 9, 2006, Unpublished) Ruling: The trial court had dismissed the injured party’s action against the insurer based on statute of...
Michigan Supreme Court shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
Sep 4 2006 // Courts and legislatures around the country are taking a serious look at the problems created by the consolidation of mass tort cases, such as asbestos and silica litigation. The Michigan Supreme Court provided the latest...
Ill. A.G. Sues Companies for Deceptive Mailers for Annuity Sales to Seniors
Sep 1 2006 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced her office filed two lawsuits against companies that allegedly used deceptive, unsolicited mailers to target senior citizens. The companies used the mailers to obtain...
Wis. Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Suit Against Archdiocese
Aug 31 2006 // Four people who accused two Roman Catholic priests of abusing them in the 1970s and 1980s cannot sue the Archdiocese of Milwaukee because the statute of limitations has expired, a state appeals court ruled this week. The...
Plaintiffs Crowd La. Courthouse, Suing Insurers Just in Case
Aug 31 2006 // The line of people suing insurance companies – just in case something derails Louisiana’s one-year extension of the deadline for victims of last year’s hurricanes – spilled out of the clerk of...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Boston’s Big Dig Tunnel Collapse
Aug 30 2006 // The family of a Boston woman killed when concrete ceiling tiles in a Big Dig highway tunnel fell on her car has filed a wrongful death suit against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and nine companies involved in the...
Lawsuits Cost Memphis $2 Million
Aug 29 2006 // Memphis city officials say they’ve shelled out nearly $2 million toward settling at least five lawsuits this year. The city attorney’s office, responding to The Commercial Appeal’s open records request,...
Other Side of Tort Reform: Alabama Woman Hurt By Award Cap
Aug 29 2006 // Swollen and limp, Trudy Roy’s left arm hangs dead at her side. With its nerves shredded beyond repair, the limb is little but a source of pain for the 68-year-old former librarian, a constant numbness and ache, like...
Kentucky Suspends Lawyers Who Won $200M Fen-Phen Case
Aug 28 2006 // Three attorneys have been temporarily suspended from practicing law in Kentucky because of questions about the way they divided a $200 million settlement from a fen-phen lawsuit. The Kentucky Supreme Court took the action...
Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Coal Mine Safety
Aug 25 2006 // A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by coal miners demanding that the government do more to ensure miners have working oxygen supplies and know how to use them. The lawsuit was filed in June after Congress...
Judge Dismisses Suit Over W. Va. Sago Coal Mine Safety
Aug 24 2006 // A federal judge this week threw out a lawsuit by coal miners that demanded the government do more to ensure that miners have working oxygen supplies and know how to use them. The lawsuit was filed in June after Congress...
Ohio Steel Company Drops Lawsuit Over Retiree Health Benefits
Aug 24 2006 // Cincinnati-based AK Steel Corp. has withdrawn a federal lawsuit in Dayton over retiree benefits because it expects quick resolution of a similar suit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, a spokesman recently said. The...
Businesses File First in Series of Lawsuits Against Competitors Hiring Undocumented Immigrants
Aug 23 2006 // Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to a Los Angeles court Tuesday, filing the first in a series of lawsuits accusing competitors of hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair...
