The Seventh Circuit appeared convinced at oral arguments Tuesday that Chicago cannot be held liable for a police officer’s off-duty misconduct, placing in jeopardy a historic $44.7 million verdict against the city for a drunken cop’s shooting of his friend.
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The en banc Seventh Circuit appeared divided at oral arguments Thursday over whether a Wisconsin county can be held liable for failing to supervise a male guard in charge of female inmates, leading him to commit hundreds of sexual assaults over three years.
Read moreA federal bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday that the principle of inverse condemnation applies to investor-owned utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric, meaning the company can be held liable for wildfire damage caused by its equipment even if it was not negligent.
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The European Commission took Spain to the European Court of Justice on Wednesday over rules on compensation for damages caused by the state that the commission says run afoul of EU law.
Read morePacific Gas and Electric lawyers on Wednesday blasted a request to fast-track a rival bankruptcy plan favored by wildfire victims as an attempt to avoid a “serious inquiry” into the actual value of wildfire claims.
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A judge will halt lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and its owners for six months in hopes of finalizing a settlement over the OxyContin maker’s role in the national opioid crisis, he said Friday.
Read moreLawyers pushing for a bankruptcy plan that would pay $25.5 billion in wildfire claims and give hedge funds control of Pacific Gas and Electric argued in court Monday that fire victims support a corporate takeover of the embattled utility.
Read moreAfter losing two lawsuits to Christian student groups at the University of Iowa, school administrators now face the prospect of paying damages to the plaintiffs out of their own pockets.
Read moreA Utah company asked a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday to reject a judge’s finding that it is a successor to Paragon Contractors, a company with numerous Department of Labor violations and ties to Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs.
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A jury trial on Pacific Gas and Electric’s liability for the 2017 Tubbs Fire will start Jan. 7 in San Francisco, a California judge ruled Monday, after rejecting PG&E’s requests to move the case to Santa Rosa and limit the number of plaintiffs.
Read moreThe widow of the late Steven Greco claims in Broward County Court that Round Up Country and The Florida Billiard Club served an habitual drunkard copious amounts of alcohol, knowing he was drunk, and he drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 and killed her husband, who was driving home from work.
Read moreThe amount Pacific Gas and Electric must pay wildfire victims will be based on expert opinions on the average damages for wrongful death and property loss claims, along with prior PG&E settlements in similar disputes, a federal judge said in court Tuesday.
Read moreThough the 416 Fire has sparked three lawsuits against it, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad maintains its coal-powered train did not spark the 54,000 acre wildfire across southwestern Colorado last summer.
Read moreWith a major trial to test prescription opioid manufacturers’ liability set to begin next month, a federal judge refused Monday to throw out the public nuisance claims of two Ohio counties impacted by the national crisis.
Read moreThe owners of a dive boat that sank in a Labor Day fire off the Southern California coast filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to minimize liability for the tragedy.
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The Fourth Circuit Friday gave families of victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting a second chance to challenge U.S. gun regulations, reversing a lower court’s decision that had found the government immune from the claims.
Read moreDemands that Pacific Gas and Electric pay government agencies for emergency response and other wildfire-related costs won’t be lumped into the same estimation process required for other wildfire claims, a federal judge said in court Tuesday.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court would not recognize that Walgreens owes a duty to third parties injured on the road by a customer who was negligently given someone else’s prescription, the Fifth Circuit ruled. The pharmacy gave a man a drug that caused him to experience severe hypoglycemia and drive erratically, killing himself and another driver.
Read moreGun manufacturer Remington Arms asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a ruling from Connecticut’s high court allowing the company to be sued by one survivor and the families of nine victims killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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