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A former volunteer baseball coach for Northwestern University filed a lawsuit in Illinois court in the wake of the university firing its head baseball coach, Jim Foster, for allegedly failing to address the toxic and abusive environment brought by the team’s leader. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s…

Lawyers for the author E. Jean Carroll, whose defamation lawsuit resulted in an $83 million judgment against former President Donald Trump in January, on Thursday argued that Trump should not be granted an unsecured stay of enforcement of the judgment. Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink argued…

Penn Hospital Scores Defense Verdict in $25M Birth Injury Case | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/03/01/penn-hospital-scores-defense-verdict-in-25m-birth-injury-case/ Credit: hxdbzxy/Shutterstock.com NEWS “They were gunning for me during trial,” plaintiffs attorney Thomas Bosworth said of the defense. “They moved for a mistrial five or six times. At least three were based…

A rare sharply divided panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals said a doctor couldn’t be held vicariously liable for a medical student’s errors under agency or the borrowed servant doctrine. The majority, in the opinion authored by Judge Todd Markle, upheld the trial court’s denial of summary judgment. In dissent,…

Irell & Manella filed a breach-of-contract suit on behalf of Elon Musk, alleging that OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, violated the company’s founding agreement by abrogating away from the initial purpose of creating a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company to “benefit humanity.” This suit was surfaced by…