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NEWPORT, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - The judge hearing Rhode Island's climate change case against companies like Chevron and Exxon has responded to their claims he appears to be biased against them.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - Oil companies sued by Rhode Island over global warming say the state judge hearing their case cited has created the appearance of bias by citing news articles in a ruling and comparing the state to developing nations that are seeking payment for climate change at the United Nations.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – A Rhode Island School of Design student who lost her left hand while trespassing at an active electrical substation has lost her lawsuit against the property’s owner, National Grid.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - A man who dragged away a wooden pallet covering a manhole and then fell into it won $87,500 from the City of Providence after the Rhode Island Supreme Court reversed a trial judge’s determination that the jury verdict wasn’t supported by the facts.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - Rhode Island can proceed with its lawsuit against opioid manufacturers Teva and Actavis after a judge rejected their motions to dismiss for lack of evidence they broke the law or made any illegal shipments of drugs into the state.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - The Rhode Island Supreme Court struck down a statute that treated prisoners sentenced to life in jail as the equivalent of being dead, reviving negligence lawsuits by a murderer and a man convicted of multiple sexual assaults. The decision drew a dissent from one justice who said it will “open the floodgates to frivolous inmate claims.”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - A defense attorney who urged jurors to reject a lawsuit against a children’s hospital so it could continue to take in “the sickest kids” crossed the line into illegal argument, the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled, ordering a new trial over a premature baby’s injuries.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – “Compelling” evidence that his school failed to protect him was in the corner of plaintiff who was beaten by a fellow student, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled in refusing to overturn a jury verdict for him.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – A Rhode Island judge should have trusted the jury in a medical malpractice case, the state Supreme Court has found.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court has vacated a judge's decision to grant summary judgment in a family's claim that a swimming pool seller is responsible for the 2012 drowning death of a 4-year-old boy.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – Ruling that the record presented to it lacked any indication of an intent to harm, the Vermont Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's judgment in a company's suit against an engineering consultant company over bids for a sewer infrastructure expansion project.
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R.I. AG Peter Kilmartin better hope Rhode Island courts import California’s concept of public nuisance law, since the last time a Rhode Island AG tried this tactic, over lead paint, the state Supreme Court rejected the claim entirely.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court has affirmed a superior court decision that a Rite Aid drug store isn’t liable for a customer’s injuries that he sustained falling over a cement parking stop while it was snowing.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court has affirmed in part and vacated in part the Superior Court’s judgment in a slip-and-fall lawsuit against PriceRite.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – A court was wrong to issue summary judgment in a case filed by a former college hockey player who claimed he was poisoned by noxious gases at a sports arena, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has found.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – An inmate serving life for murder cannot sue over an alleged behind-bars attack because he is, by almost all legal standards, dead, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – Exonerating a Providence community center in a tragic 2010 accident involving a stolen vehicle, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island recently upheld a Providence County Superior Court’s opinion that the facility had no liability in the incident.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court’s summary judgment dismissing a negligence case against two nurses.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court has granted a couple another chance to challenge construction plans for a field hockey space at Brown University.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court recently upheld a summary judgment in a premises liability case in which a woman claimed she was injured when she fell through faulty stairs.
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