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A man was shot and killed when a U.S. Marshal attempted to arrest him at a house in Detroit in 2015. The man’s estate and his relatives filed this action, asserting multiple claims against several Defendants. In the end,

The Connecticut General Assembly has passed significant trust legislation including the Uniform Trust Code and Directed Trust Act, and extended the rule against perpetuities to allow 800-year dynasty trusts. Public

New York state saw more than 400 lawsuits filed in on the first day of a one-year “look-back” window in the statute of limitations that permits abuse survivors to bring

The North Carolina Rules of Practice were amended this week to permit parental leave for attorneys. The announcement was made by Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley who said that

You read that correctly: attorneys can ask for fees for the time they took asking for fees. That’s according to the Pennsylvania Superior Court decision, Richards v. Ameriprise Fin., Inc.,

In Virginia, a nursing assistant molested and raped an 85-year-old resident at a nursing home. The administrator of the resident’s estate brought suit the nursing assistant and the nursing home, and the jury returned

Earlier this summer, the United States Supreme Court upset years of federal court precedent to broaden the protection of “trade secrets and commercial or financial” information from disclosure under the

President Trump has declared that the United States is “setting records on virtually every front.” In fact, he has proclaimed that the economy is “probably the best our country has

An Oklahoma plaintiff recently asked a federal court to preclude a defendant from “clawing back” privileged documents accidentally revealed to an expert pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B).  In March of 2017, Plaintiff discovered twelve stones

In an insurance subrogation matter, Plaintiff Insurance Company appealed from an order barring its expert’s reports and testimony and granting summary judgment to Defendant.   Defendant was a fuel oil company