The Latest News in the World of Torts
A New York Times article (10/20/2018) shines light on a current lawsuit (“Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and…
An October 16 article in the Washington Post describes a new legal service app that makes it possible to sue…
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund recently tested 27 common kids’ products and found asbestos in a crayon…
Who’s Your Daddy? The New York Times is reporting that Dr. Donald Cline fathered many, many children, while running a…
Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy as a member of the United States Supreme Court. Twenty…
By Tom Lebert Pharmaceutical company Bayer announced on July 20, 2018 that a controversial device for permanent birth control, Essure,…
There is an interesting article in the New York Times, today, “$16 Million vs. $4: Why Payouts in Police Shootings…
A 38 year old Florida man, Tallmadge Wakeman D’Elia, was killed when a vape pen exploded and shot fragments of…
The future is racing up on us with breathtaking speed. New products, new technologies are constantly being touted and developed,…
The Berkeley Law School at the University of California announced the creation of a major new consumer center, funded by…
The Director's Cut
We live in an era when the law is constantly working to keep up with new developments in science, medicine…
Public Justice is working on a critical new case, and the facts will alarm you. Over the course of four…
By Richard Newman & Tom Lebert The world is becoming increasingly driven by large corporations and those who would benefit…
So there’s this gimmick, see? A special interest group of one sort or another goes before a legislature somewhere –…
Tort law, as noted historian Eric Foner put it, is the “weapon of the weak.” It lets the wrongfully injured…
We’ve all heard about them – frivolous lawsuits – that are allegedly plaguing the courts, bedeviling the civil justice system,…
You think that bad stuff just happens? In 2016, 42,000 Americans died because of opioids. 40 percent of those deaths…
In 2012, the unspeakable happened. A madman, armed with rifle designed for war, slaughtered little children in a school in…
The gigantic March for our Lives event on March 24, 2018 was, perhaps, a watershed moment in American efforts to…
The Georgia Supreme court just upheld a $40 million dollar verdict against Chrysler in a case where a little boy…
