News published on Legal Newsline in December 2021

INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) – Verbal and large written warnings about an allegedly dangerous step at an Indiana restaurant is enough for it to avoid liability for the fall of one of its customers.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A 1999 tort reform measure applies to tobacco wrongful death cases of smokers who died after, even though a class action on their behalf had been filed years before.

CHARLESTON – A federal court in Louisiana has granted a preliminary injunction to a 12-state coalition that was seeking to stop additional vaccine mandates proposed by the Biden Administration.

SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Defense attorneys on Tuesday sought to portray their clients, three of the biggest distributors of opioid drugs in the U.S., as taking appropriate steps in the early 2000s through 2014 to safeguard the public by establishing in-house systems to check suspicious drug orders.

TACOMA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) - A skateboarder who won a $6.5 million jury verdict after being hit by a car in a pedestrian crosswalk must go back to court after a Washington appeals court reversed the decision, saying the defense should have been able to present evidence the skateboarder was stoned at the time of the accident.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Having successfully removed the previous judge from the case, a group in the business of suing companies that sell coffee without a cancer warning now wants the replacement to ignore her previous rulings.

CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Neil Stevens filed a federal class action complaint on November 5 in the Northern District of Illinois against Rust-Oleum Corporation over acrylic coating products.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Legal Newsline) - A nonprofit government watchdog organization has filed an amicus brief against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for his refusal to release records pertaining to communications between his office and other states.

Sheppard Mullin Appoints Lois Durant Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer.