Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed and remanded an action from the Volusia Circuit Court in which jurors returned zero damages for the pain and suffering of a man who experienced second-degree burns. “Reversals on denial of additur are rare and generally limited to situations where the damages are so…

A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, has dismissed a First Amendment retaliation suit by a university lecturer whose contract was not renewed after the New York Times reported that he was part of the alt-right movement. While an institution such as the defendant New Jersey Institute of Technology is intended…

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com A McDonald’s employee working at a store in Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to lighting a fire inside a dumpster to clear out customers because the restaurant was overcrowded. Joshua Daryl McGregor, 34, was working at…

In a 4-3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court declined to broaden the meaning of “supervisor” in the context of hostile work environment claims, which the dissenters claim will lead to employers escaping liability. The high court adopted the definition of “supervisor” found in Vance v. Ball State University, a 2013 U.S.…

Who Got The Work Google and YouTube have retained attorneys Asim Bhansali, Kate Lazarus and Lizzie Dinh of Kwun Bhansali Lazarus to fight a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, which asserts a single patent related to streaming video to mobile devices, was filed May 28 in California Northern District…

A South Florida construction attorney has achieved another significant victory, tackling the ever-growing construction litigation sector in Miami. This time, the notable legal victory was for San Francisco-based Malcolm Drilling Co., which was awarded more than $6.4 million in an arbitration case against Archer Western Contractors LLC and de Moya Group Inc. of…