My daughter was hurt in a soccer game because the ref refused to reign in a reckless player on the opposing team. Can I sue? My son is devastated because he was improperly called out on strikes by a blind umpire. Can I sue? Setting aside the merits of these…
The Tennessee Adult Protection Act, T. C. A. Sec. 71-6-101 et seq, creates civil action for compensatory and, as appropriate, punitive damages when "adults" covered by the act are victims of abuse or neglect, sexual abuse or exploitation and for theft of money or property whether by fraud, deceit, coercion or otherwise. Those covered…
As a Tennessee injury lawyer I receive calls from time to time from parents of children who have been injured by a foster parent. Indeed, several years ago our firm represented a parent of a pregnant teenager who was killed as a result of careless driving by her foster parent.…
Check out this commercial. I don’t think this type of advertising would impact the lawyer’s credibility before the average Texas jury. Do you?
Work is underway on the third edition of Day on Torts: A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers. Laura Bishop and I have already identified over 30 new sections that need to be added to the book, as well as citations to well over 200 new cases. If you have come…
Some of you heard me rant about West Publishing Company during the recent Justice Programs seminar. Well, here are a couple great posts about West’s pollution of the blawgosphere. The controversy arose when Findlaw launched "The New York Personal Injury Law Blog" years after a wonderful blog by the same…
The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts has released the 2008-09 Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary. The report includes information about court filings and dispositions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. Here is some of the important data included in the Report: 1. There were only 10,659…
Lawyer Mark Lambert , an attorney with the Cochran Firm in Memphis, has been sued by Greg Herbers, a Memphis hair stylist, over injuries Herbers says he received in an alteration with Lambert in the bathroom of a Memphis bar. According to the story in the Commercial Appeal, Herbers entered…
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a case against Wal-Mart for selling bullets to a person without requiring her to present an identification card as required by Illinois law. Candice Johnson later used the bullets to commit suicide. Her husband filed suit, alleging that his…
More information continues to be leaked to the media about Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses, and news reports indicate that at least one of them has confirmed a long-lasting affair. What does the law of torts say about this? Alienation of affections, criminal conversation, and reckless infliction of emotional distress immediately…