An Ohio appellate court reversed a trial court’s decision to evenly split a divorced couple’s embryos between the man and woman, concluding the lower court erred in applying a contractual approach to embryos in dividing them as marital property instead of a balancing method. In an April 17 opinion, the Ohio…

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously agreed Thursday that the management company of a Portland McDonald’s franchise is not vicariously liable under the state’s Human Rights Act after one of its employees displayed discriminatory behavior toward a customer. Tiffany Vargas and Erika Acevedo challenged a Cumberland County Superior Court trial judgment…

Defense counsel for Donald Trump on Friday urged the judge overseeing the Manhattan criminal case against their client to bar prosecutors from introducing any Sandoval evidence should their client take the stand in his own defense. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office are seeking to include evidence of multiple…

Whenever a controversial New York City issue hit the courts in recent years, there’s been a decent chance King & Spalding’s Randy Mastro might be on retainer for one of the parties. And over the past week, several outlets have reported that Mastro—a previous chief of staff and a deputy mayor…

A judge in Pennsylvania granted SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment’s motion for summary judgment on negligent supervision claims, concluding there was no genuine dispute that Sesame Place employees were acting within their scope of employment when they allegedly ignored Black and Hispanic children during character interactions. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone…

An intermediate New York appeals court remitted negligence claims over allegedly improperly stored embryos to the trial court on Thursday, but upheld a decision finding no medical malpractice had occurred. Plaintiffs Dana Bledsoe and Nicholas McKee filed their lawsuit in 2011, following two failed in vitro fertilization procedures at Yale…