The Davidson County jury list includes an unusual entry this week. Each prospective juror is supposed to complete a questionnaire and then a jury list is completed with includes the stated employment of the juror and the juror’s spouse. One juror listed his employment as "Professor." He listed his wife’s employment…
Notre Dame beat Navy, just like they have done every year since 1963. I guess if you beat a team 43 years in a row you have a reason to be proud . . . of the person who negotiates your football schedule.
The passing game coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys has sued McDonalds after his family found a 6-inch rat in a salad. Appparently "rat salad" was not on the menu. The rat was not discovered until the salad was taken home. Some of the salad was consumed by the coach’s wife and a live-in…
I drove to Atlanta last night so that I could attend two days of meetings preparing for an upcoming class certification hearing in St. Louis. We are going to work at polishing our team’s arguments for the hearing and testing our visual aids. On Thursday night I will be coming…
I saw this and it reminded me of a recent conversation I had. I was having dinner with several judges and was complaining about what I felt have been some rather meager fee awards in consumer protection action cases. (Note: I had no pending cases before these judges on any attorneys’ fee issue and I…
My friend Bill Marler is THE man when it comes to food poisoning cases. His firm, based out of Seattle but with a nationwide practice, knows the science of food poisoning inside out. We worked together on an e coli case in East Tennessee that we wrapped up earlier this…
The Tort Deform Blog is offered by the Drum Major Institute of Public Policy. They say that they blog "confronts and transcends the arguments put forth by the tort ‘reform’ movement, working to ensure that all Americans can access the courts." The blog is well-written and provides a lot of information…
We had our hearing on the subrogation issue mentioned in last Friday’s post. Judge Bivins ruled that the made-whole doctrine survived the adoption of no-fault insurance in Michigan and also found that our clients were not made whole from our prior settlement with the defendants. Accordingly, he declined to enforce the…
Mark Zamora (of A Georgia Lawyer ) and David Swammer (of the South Carolina Trial Law Blog) have been working on a group blog for nearly a year and went live about ten days ago. It’s called the Trial Lawyer Resource Center with a shorter URL of TLRCBlog.com. I am…
Employee Froman died in an on-the-job accident. Darling, one of the owners of the employer, threw away the equipment involved in the accident after being asked by an Indiana OSHA employee to keep it for inspection. Froman’s estate filed suit against the employer; the suit included claims for negligent and intentional spoliation…