Florida Fourth District Court Of Appeal
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Parents of Florida school-shooting victims must risk losing lawsuit against gun companies
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Parents of a girl who was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School shooting massacre in 2018 must actually sue gun manufacturers to find out whether a state law will compel them to pay defense costs if they lose, an appeals court ruled. -
$4 million malpractice verdict reversed over daughter's lifetime damages
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A Florida appeals court reversed a $4 million wrongful death verdict after a plaintiff attorney urged jurors to consider the “long, long life” over which an alleged malpractice victim’s daughter would have to think about her father’s death. -
Ex-judge not qualified to back tobacco lawyers' request for millions, court finds
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A trial court shouldn’t have listened to a former judge who testified plaintiffs lawyers deserved up to $1,500 per hour in a tobacco case. -
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Florida court upholds R.J. Reynolds' victory; Plaintiff shredded medical records prior to suing
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A Florida appeals court upheld a defense victory for RJ Reynolds in a case where the plaintiff told his law firm he’d shredded his wife’s medical records shortly before he sued the cigarette maker for causing her fatal cancer. -
Waiver covers high school soccer player's injuries; He was thrown into unpadded concrete barrier
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A Florida school district will get away with placing a concrete barrier close to one of its soccer fields because the injured player signed an injury waiver before his game. -
Nazi, '1984' comparisons by plaintiffs lawyer 'way over the line' but somehow not enough to strike $5.1M verdict
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A plaintiff lawyer who compared cigarette manufacturers to Nazis and his client to a torture victim in George Orwell’s novel “1984” “went way over the line” but not far enough to require a new trial, a Florida appeals court said in a decision urging judges to keep a tighter lid on inflammatory closing arguments. -
Prospective jurors said cigarettes should be outlawed but were dismissed too soon from smoker's trial, court rules
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – The judge handling a tobacco trial in Florida was wrong to let eight possible jurors go when trying to get the jury pool down to 100 – the maximum capacity of the courtroom. -
Court puts brakes on punitive damages issue in employment discrimination lawsuit
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Before a pharmaceutical company needs to show how much it’s worth, a former employee must first prove her claim for punitive damages is justified.