A jury in Camden County, New Jersey, has returned a $21.8 million verdict in a suit claiming negligent stormwater management by the Borough of Haddonfield led to flooding that severely damaged four houses. The plaintiffs were owners of properties inundated by floodwaters and fecal matter in a June 20, 2019…

The Ohio Supreme Court recently overturned a felony conviction for aggravated vehicular assault after concluding the state misinterpreted the law, clarifying that a Polaris off-road vehicle is a “utility vehicle,” not a “motor vehicle” under Ohio criminal law. The high court unanimously overturned Joshua Fork’s felony conviction after he crashed…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed an unlawful employment practices action against an Atlanta brewpub, alleging a sous chef-in-training was terminated for speaking out about the restaurant’s alleged mistreatment of ethnic minority groups and women. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases…

Asset management company Fortress is claiming that real estate billionaire Charles S. Cohen owes the investment group nearly $190 million after borrowers defaulted on a loan of more than $533 million, according to newly filed court papers. Plaintiff Fortress Credit Corp. is asking a judge to find Cohen liable for…

At last year’s CodeX FutureLaw conference, shortly after OpenAI’s GPT-4 had been unleashed on the world, a group of professionals doing some of the most cutting-edge AI work in legal gathered at an invite-only workshop to discuss the future of generative AI in the profession. Among the topics debated was…

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s impending criminal trial has issued a limited gag order in the case—precluding the former president from speaking about witnesses, court staff, and other individuals. Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in a Tuesday order barred the former president from speaking publicly about prosecutors and…