After 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley killed four fellow students and injured seven at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit in November 2021, we opined in support of the prosecution of his parents—a first of its kind prosecution—for involuntary manslaughter. The allegations in the indictment were compelling. Recently, after hearing the testimony of 21 prosecution…

Two Miami law firms have sued The Associated Press on behalf of a group of survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas-Israel strike, alleging the news organization indirectly supported a terrorist group. LSN Law and Mark Migdal & Hayden represent five individuals working with the National Jewish Advocacy Center, who filed the lawsuit…

The group whose website lists it as the nation’s largest donor and volunteer-supported mentoring network has been hit with a class action lawsuit in federal district court in Tampa, Florida—a state with a sustained surge in data breach litigation observed by Law.com Radar and experts. Mariya Weekes, senior counsel at…

A federal judge in Trenton, New Jersey, has imposed sanctions against the Outback Steakhouse restaurant chain for failing to preserve video showing a customer’s slip and fall. A manager at the Outback Steakhouse in Green Brook, New Jersey, preserved a 27-minute video of the incident, showing five minutes before plaintiff…

Jury Hits Pa. Dentist With $11M Verdict for Delayed Cancer Diagnosis, Alleged Cover-Up | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/02/23/jury-hits-pa-dentist-with-11m-verdict-for-delayed-cancer-diagnosis-alleged-cover-up/ Braden Lepisto of Kline & Specter. Courtesy photo NEWS The suburban Pennsylvania jury awarded $8 million in punitive damages based in part on the allegation that the defendant tried…

Near the end of 2023 the American Tort Reform Association published its annual “Judicial Hellholes” report, portraying the Fifth District Court of Appeals in a negative light. A version of the report slamming the Fifth District appeared as an op-ed to the Dallas Morning News. In response, David Coale, a…