Peter Schuck asserts that "The Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Wyeth v. Levine gives unprecedented power to juries in deciding issues far outside their expertise." This is a very strange claim. The tort system wasn't created this Tuesday; juries, for better or worse, have had the authority to ...

The last golf-ball-strike case I reported on was Yoneda v. Tom, a 2006 case in which the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiff could not recover from the man who hit him in the eye with a golf ball because one who golfs assumes the risk of being hit by errant balls.  "Hitting a golf ball at...

The long-awaited criminal trial involving W.R. Grace & Co. and its alleged actions in Libby, Mont. (pictured), kicked off on Monday in federal court in Missoula. Click here for the Bloomberg story; here for coverage from the Missoulian; here for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s take; here...

Judge Amy Reynolds Hay threw the case out: While it is easy to imagine that many whose property appears on Google's virtual maps resent the privacy implications, it is hard to believe that any - other than the most exquisitely sensitive - would suffer shame or humiliation.... The plaintiffs' failure...

It is hard not to applaud the Chinese for their decision to execute officials for the contamination of milk sold domestically and abroad, even for those generally opposed to the death penalty. Unfortunately, the Chinese may have been motivated more by the impact of the unfavorable publicity than rea...

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy is still fighting for justice, even as he sits in a federal prison. His latest battle: raising a ruckus over a securities-fraud settlement involving HealthSouth that was approved by an Alabama federal judge back in 2007. The Fulton County Daily-Report has a nic...

In the wee hours of . . . Black Friday, the defendant’s seeds of chaos were bearing fruit, as the swarm of would-be shoppers was burgeoning. Badly hit by a grievous recession, these people had elected to barter sleep, in order to put substance in their Christmas stocking. The multitude was spi...

Yesterday, the Law Blog wrote a piece for the WSJ, the LB’s sister publication, in which we posed the following question: Which party should foot the costs of a lawsuit? Should each side bear its own costs, as they do in the U.S.? Or would we be better off with a so-called loser-pays system &#...

An article in the Wall Street Journal -- The Debate Over Who Pays Fees When Litigants Mount Attacks, by Dan Slater -- chronicles the increasing discussion over loser-pays lawsuit financing. (H/t Torts Prof Blog.) Professor Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) is quoted......

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