BEAUMONT — A Cherokee County patient is suing Jefferson County health care providers, alleging their negligence led to health problems for the plaintiff.
When thinking about the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, most observers recall the 2014 decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Obama’s kangaroo-court “recess appointments”—made when the Senate was not actually in recess—were invalid.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Legal Newsline) – A mass tort attorney and blogger says a federal judge’s ruling in favor of Legal Newsline should help bring much-needed transparency to asbestos and other mass tort bankruptcy cases.
A man is suing a school district and several officials of the district, claiming he was forced to resign amid an alleged atmosphere of sexual harassment by his female boss.
Hartley As advances in molecular science develop rapidly in laboratories, legal observers wonder if toxicogenomics will provide the next holy grail for toxic tort litigation -- specific causation.
Hartley Asbestos litigation expert Lester Brickman said that even with a new and possibly more sympathetic Congress, chances are "remarkably slim" that transparency measures could be enacted to show how lawyers and claimants divvy up more than $18 billion in assets from more than 54 such trusts.
Hartley CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - An asbestos litigation expert said rules being developed in asbestos Chapter 11 cases are serving as precedent for resolution of other mass torts.
Imagine the pressure 23-year-old Garrett Hartley must have felt when he strolled onto the field to attempt a 40-yard field goal that would send the New Orleans Saints to the Super Bowl for the first time in its 43-year history.
Uhlmann As the people of Libby, Mont., come to grips with a jury's decision to acquit chemical company W.R. Grace of knowingly endangering their lives, legal experts are analyzing the process that led up to the controversial verdict.
Hartley With major American corporations sagging under the weight of billions in asbestos-related lawsuits, Congress set out in 1994 to provide a reasonable way for companies to limit their liability to asbestos victims.
Everingham MARSHALL -- An East Texas judge has dismissed several claims in a class action that the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates plaintiffs' constitutional rights.
A total of 13 suits were filed regarding hurricane claims against insurance companies in Jefferson County District Court during the week of March 16-March 20, 2009.
Hartley LOS ANGELES - Emerging trends in asbestos litigation are producing new pools of plaintiffs from new waters sparsely fished by attorneys until recent years.
Anapol Forty billion dollars of designated funds currently available in court-established trust funds is providing abundant incentive to already rich attorneys with asbestos-settling know-how.
The death of Shanon Dean Hartley made news back in November 2004 when a homeowner found the man's decomposing body in a flowerbed a week after he had been in a car wreck.
