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Make Room on that Courtroom Bench!
An October 16 article in the Washington Post describes a new legal service app that makes it possible to sue with a smartphone and claim awards from class action lawsuits. It’s called “Do Not Pay” and was developed by Joshua Browder, a 21 year old senior at Stanford. Browder describes it this way: “Lawyers say…
Read MoreBetter Check Those School Supplies for Toxic Ingredients
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund recently tested 27 common kids’ products and found asbestos in a crayon and benzene in a marker. The article appeared in an August 8 article in the New York Times. One of the crayons tested – a green Playskool crayon – showed trace amounts of tremolite, which…
Read MoreTom Girardi speaks at the museum
On September 27th famed “Erin Brockovich” attorney Thomas Girardi became the first presenter of the “Leaders in Law Presentation Series”.
Read MoreDo Judicial Nominees Need to be forthright?
The Senate is holding hearing on the confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. In recent years, hearings on judicial nominations have become elaborate pieces of theater. In this case, it’s Republican Senators lobbing softball questions to the nominee, Democratic Senators protesting the late-night dumping of tens of thousands of documents…
Read MoreThis Week In Torts: A Compendium Of Tort-Related News Ripped From Today’s Headlines!
Who’s Your Daddy? The New York Times is reporting that Dr. Donald Cline fathered many, many children, while running a fertility clinic in Indianapolis during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Many couples sought Dr. Cline out at his Indianapolis-area fertility clinic during the 1970s and ’80s. They had children, who grew up and had children of…
Read MoreHere Comes The Future (Again)
We live in an era when the law is constantly working to keep up with new developments in science, medicine and technology. And right now, we have a chance to watch the law surrounding drones emerge and evolve. What do you do when a drone flies over your backyard, maybe while you’re sunbathing, or having…
Read MoreBrett Kavanaugh and the Starr Report
Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy as a member of the United States Supreme Court. Twenty years ago he served as an attorney working for Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who investigated a series of scandals during Mr. Clinton’s presidency, and he worked on the report that led the House of…
Read MoreThey Thought That The Law Would Save Them, But…
Public Justice is working on a critical new case, and the facts will alarm you. Over the course of four months in late 2015 and early 2016, a natural gas well in California released thousands of tons of methane and other chemicals into the air. To put the seriousness of this event into context, consider…
Read MoreA Corporate Court
By Richard Newman & Tom Lebert The world is becoming increasingly driven by large corporations and those who would benefit from them as wealth inequality skyrockets and antitrust law is seldom used. The tort law system we celebrate at the American Museum of Tort Law has helped to protect the people from the wrongdoings of…
Read MoreBayer Pays Doctors Amid Birth Control Implant Scandal
By Tom Lebert Pharmaceutical company Bayer announced on July 20, 2018 that a controversial device for permanent birth control, Essure, will be taken off the market amid reports of injury and death. The device was taken off the market in England, Canada, and France, among other countries, but has still been sold in the United…
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