7th Circuit Nixes $44.7M Award to Man Shot by Off-Duty Cop
A federal appeals court has cleared Chicago of liability for a drunken off-duty shooting by a police officer that left the officer’s friend permanently disabled.
Read moreA federal appeals court has cleared Chicago of liability for a drunken off-duty shooting by a police officer that left the officer’s friend permanently disabled.
Read moreThe complaint seeks to hold former President Donald Trump liable for the insurrection that the Senate only days earlier acquitted him of having incited.
Read moreBritain’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of Nigerian farmers and fishermen can sue Royal Dutch Shell PLC in English courts over pollution in a region where the Anglo-Dutch energy giant has a subsidiary.
Read moreCiting Michael Bloomberg’s lack of personal participation in alleged workplace sexual harassment at his namesake company, New York’s highest court on Thursday affirmed a dismissal that keeps the billionaire off the hook for the claims of a fired Bloomberg LP employee who says a supervisor drugged and raped her.
Read moreJohn Matze says he has been fired as CEO of Parler, which was among social media services used to plan the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
Read moreA French court ruled Friday that over 700 coal miners must be compensated for the psychological stress produced by their exposure to a range of toxic substances during their careers, a decision that could pave the way for lawsuits in other industries.
Read moreThe City of Fort Worth, Texas, is not liable for the death of a 72-year-old man who was shot and killed by city police officers in his own home, a federal court in Texas ruled. While responding to a burglary alarm at a house across the street, the officers mistakenly responded to the man’s house and, thinking he was being burglarized, he took his gun to his garage to investigate.
Read moreA reversal could leave the billionaire media magnate on the hook in a civil suit from a woman who says another Bloomberg employee raped her.
Read moreAn appeals court in Louisiana upheld a ruling against the St. Tammany Parish School Board and a school janitor who molested and raped a fourth grade special education student during school hours, finding the school board is vicariously liable for its employee’s actions. The ruling affirms a $350,000 award for damages.
Read moreA ski resort is not liable for a man’s injuries in a snow tubing accident, an appeals court in Missouri ruled, because the man signed a release of liability contract before buying tickets for the tubing hill. As the man slid down the hill on a rubber inner dub, his foot hit a crevice in the slope, breaking his leg in two pieces.
Read moreSix Africans who say they were kidnapped as children, then beaten and starved as they toiled on cocoa plantations fought against the limits of corporate liability Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
Read moreAn appeals court in California reversed a ruling in favor of Plains Pipeline, whose pipeline ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, in a dispute brought by the State Lands Commission, which claimed the company’s negligent maintenance disrupted payment of royalty income to the commission and caused damages to improvements on its land. Although designated as a public utility, the company is not exempt from liability.
Read moreFacebook cannot be held liable for the death of an Ohio man whose killer posted a disturbing message on the social media platform and later shared a video of the shooting before he died by suicide, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe D.C. transit authority cannot be held liable for failing to prevent an argument on a bus from escalating into a fight that ended with a fatal stabbing, a federal judge ruled. However, the victim’s mother may have a claim that the station agent failed to timely call for medical help.
Read moreIf you get into a car accident on your way home, laws exist to determine who is liable for the damage. But if your satellite hits another satellite in space, there are no clear rules.
Read moreSaying they can’t get justice in Brazil, more than 200,000 Brazilians whose lives and businesses were upended by a massive dam failure in 2015 are asking a British court to hear their $6.3 billion case against BHP, one of the world’s largest mining companies.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit ruled that an acid manufacturing plant cannot claim it was unforeseeable that nearby workers would inhale poisonous gas discharged into the air and develop respiratory illness.
Read moreLobbying groups are gearing up as lawmakers prepare to unveil the fourth, and possibly last, stimulus package to combat the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreWith nearly half a million dead and untold economic damage worldwide, the novel coronavirus has left many wondering whether China is to blame for the outbreak, including legal scholars.
Read morePlainclothes police officers who approached a black man with their weapons drawn and tased, pepper sprayed and arrested him — without probable cause — are not entitled to qualified immunity on excessive force claims, the Sixth Circuit ruled. The man initially thought he was about to be robbed.
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