News from August 2021
Troutman Pepper Appointed ‘Innovator-in-Residence’ at University of Richmond’s Law School Program
Troutman Pepper Appointed ‘Innovator-in-Residence’ at University of Richmond’s Law School Program.
Missouri court rejects proposed class action of unharmed workers worried about their lungs
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - An attempt to form a class action seeking medical monitoring for thousands of workers exposed to metalworking fluids failed, as a Missouri appeals court upheld its dismissal because there was no evidence the plaintiffs needed future monitoring for lung disease that typically shows symptoms immediately.
DeSantis' attorneys defend law that keeps transgenders out of girls sports
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Males are physiologically different from females and allowing them to play girls youth sports would be unfair to their competition, attorneys for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently wrote as they defend a lawsuit brought by a transgender teen who wants to play girls youth sports.
Doctor wins $4.75 million in lawsuit over nurse's alcohol accusation
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana appeals court ordered a hospital to pay a doctor more than $4.75 million over claims she was defamed by a nurse who accused her of being drunk but delayed the report until it was too late for the physician to disprove it with a blood alcohol test.
House member: Manchin shouldn't support H.R. 4 based on earlier comments
WASHINGTON – The version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed last week by House Democrats varies greatly from the compromise Sen. Joe Manchin offered earlier this summer. And the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration says Manchin, who likely will be the key vote when the matter goes to the Senate, wouldn’t support this latest version of the bill if he “were to follow his own framework.”
Corporate Counsel Honors Kimberly Bullock Gatling Among Women, Influence & Power in Law Honorees
Corporate Counsel Honors Kimberly Bullock Gatling Among Women, Influence & Power in Law Honorees.
Morgan Lewis Chief Engagement Officer Amanda Smith Honored for Collaborative Leadership by Corporate Counsel
Morgan Lewis Chief Engagement Officer Amanda Smith Honored for Collaborative Leadership by Corporate Counsel.
Eckert Seamans Lawyers Named among The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 and as Ones to Watch
Eckert Seamans Lawyers Named among The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 and as Ones to Watch.
Doctor's apology can't be used against him in malpractice lawsuit
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - A doctor’s disputed apology to parents whose child was severely disabled during birth can’t be used as evidence against him in a malpractice lawsuit, an Arizona appeals court ruled, rejecting a constitutional challenge to a state law protecting expressions of sympathy.
Public nuisance theory wins billions despite courtroom failures
Public nuisance may be the most successful legal theory ever to have failed in court
Appeals court tosses Washington AG's lawsuit against Value Village
OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) - Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson cited the wrong statute when he accused a retail chain of deceiving consumers into thinking they helped charities by purchasing donated goods, an appeals court ruled, finding the state’s consumer protection statute was too broad to cover speech involving charitable donations.
Class action says chemical treatments on decks failed
GREENBELT, Md. (Legal Newsline) -- Larry Bryant and Deidra Bryant filed a federal class action lawsuit on August 9 in the District of Maryland against Koppers, Inc. and Culpeper of Federalsburg for negligence, strict products liability and unfair or deceptive trade practices.
Evidence of coordination in climate litigation is eroding AG arguments for keeping cases in state court, watchdog says
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A nonprofit government watchdog group is sounding the alarm after mounting evidence suggests that the attorneys general in Minnesota and Washington D.C engaged in a covertly coordinated effort to carry out similar climate change lawsuits.
Prop 65 group wants judge DQ'd from coffee case, cites husband's CalChamber ties
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A group heavily involved in California’s notorious Prop 65 litigation wants the judge who refused to impose a coffee-causes-cancer warning label thrown off the case.
MyPillow wants to appeal adverse ruling in Dominion's defamation lawsuit against it
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The pillow company caught up in controversy following the 2020 Presidential election will try to appeal a ruling that allows a defamation lawsuit against it to proceed.
Judge Brett R. Wilson appointed as new county administrative judge
Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera has appointed Judge Brett R. Wilson as the county administrative judge for the Circuit Court for Washington County.
Penalties against serial plaintiff and suspended lawyer for frivolous ADA lawsuits affirmed
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – A Florida federal judge who undertook his own investigation of a serial lawsuit-filer and his attorney and penalized them for filing frivolous civil rights claims on behalf of the hearing-impaired was right to do so, an appeals court has ruled.
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Former patients of pediatrician who examined anuses with finger lost their chance to sue
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs who said a Connecticut pediatrician sexually abused them by inserting his finger in their anuses will not be able to sue his estate.
Kicking horse lands dude ranch in legal trouble
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - An Arizona dude ranch that used a faulty liability release form might be on the hook for a customer’s broken leg, after an appeals court reversed a summary judgment for the ranch.
Lawsuit seeks sick leave after employees contracted COVID, were fired
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) -- Three Massachusetts women are suing a former employer for paid sick leave after allegedly not being able to return to work because they contracted COVID-19.