In previous columns, I've written about some of the more creative and even outrageous defenses that lawyers and their embattled clients have employed over the years: the murderer who claimed "caffeine intoxication," the speeding driver who claimed he lost control of the car while dunking cookies in milk, and the tax dodger who claimed "fear of filing syndrome."
Miller WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A group of Democratic state attorneys general are excited that President Barack Obama signed federal financial reform legislation into law Wednesday.
Obama DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - President Barack Obama's fight to regulate automobile dealers like banks could lead to broken knees, a Duke University professor joked Wednesday.
MARSHALL-In a recently filed federal lawsuit, the shift manager of a Plano ice cream shop claims she was left blind in one eye by an on-the-job injury.
Cuomo DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The way Duke University professor and former North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger sees it, there can be only two reasons New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Bank of America -- and neither of them are good.
Folsom A federal appeals court has granted a writ of mandamus to the defendant in a patent infringement suit and ordered the case be transferred out of the Eastern District of Texas.
A total of six suits over hurricane damage claims were filed against insurance companies in Jefferson County District Court during the week of May 25 through May 29.
A Beaumont environmental law firm embroiled in litigation over money owed to an air quality consultant has been hit with judgment of more than $1 million.
As "Legally Speaking" readers know, I periodically recognize some of the legal system's oddities with our very own version of the Oscars or Emmys of the entertainment world � the Justie. Awards.
Coughlin SAN FRANCISCO - Retailer Wal-Mart stands strong while other businesses fall, but class action lawyers aim to knock it down with an $11 billion lawsuit.
With the Texas Legislature going back to work this month in Austin, several readers reminded me that while this column has looked at lawyers and judges behaving badly, it hasn't devoted much space to chronicling the foibles of those who actually make the laws.
Judge Gary Sanderson In September 2007, the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals dealt a blow to toxic tort attorney Tom Pearson when it removed a host of children from a class action alleging Premcor, Motiva and several other refineries were releasing harmful pollutants into Port Arthur neighborhoods.
In last week's column, we brought you the first installment of the Justies, our own attempt to recognize some of the most bizarre and/or amusing stories coming out of the legal system.
When the outcome of her civil trial ended with an unfavorable verdict, Cecile Childs sued her defense lawyer for legal malpractice. When the presiding judge threw out her suit, Childs took her case to the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals.