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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – The Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court’s summary judgment dismissing a negligence case against two nurses.
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.
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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