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Last summer, the Texas Court of Appeals heard the appeal of a Jones Act case in which injured employee sought damages for physical and psychological injuries incurred while he was employed with a fleet of inland tank

Between the nearly 1,000 redactions in Robert Mueller’s report and the failed redactions in the Paul Manafort filings, this term has appeared in the news quite a lot over the last few months.  As a legal professional dealing

The Florida Supreme Court has reversed its position on the standard for expert testimony, adopting the Daubert standard, and reversing its previous decision to keep Frye. The majority held in a per

In the 11th Circuit, a per curiam decision from a panel of circuit judges found that in the absence of any evidence from which the jury could have eliminated other

Two industrial sites in Illinois were found to have significant amounts of groundwater contamination related to their operations. When the owner’s insurer refused to indemnify, the owner sued. The case

The Middle District of Florida recently heard a motion by a defendant who claimed that service was improper and should be quashed because he didn’t live at the address listed

Plaintiff appealed from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for his landlord, and dismissal with prejudice of his complaint alleging negligence in failing to clear ice on a sidewalk on which Plaintiff slipped and fell at the apartment complex.   Judges Francis J. Vernoia and Scott J. Moynihan wrote in

A plaintiff in a Connecticut negligence action appealed from the judgment of the trial court, claiming that the court abused its discretion when it didn’t allow her expert witness to

A federal judge in San Diego recently ruled in favor of a Spanish Foundation that currently holds Danish-French Impressionist Camille Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897.”

Defendant, along with Plaintiff’s now-estranged wife, Dorie, established a company that was in the business of selling jewelry at retail. In an action commenced against Plaintiff, Dorie, several of Plaintiff’s