By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue and Lannis Arbitration agreements are supposed to ensure that disputes are resolved outside of court, and that’s why it’s an irony of almost cosmic proportions that “the enforceability of arbitration...

By: William C. Jhaveri-Weeks , Jhaveri-Weeks Law This article discusses the scope of discovery that plaintiffs can obtain from defendants in employment discrimination cases, including limitations on discovery that defendants often attempt to assert...

FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE SET BY THE CALIFORNIA legislature,which enacted a sweeping data privacy statute in June 2018, state legislatures have begun to enact, or at least propose, similar laws to give consumers greater control over their personal information...

Do you own a home? Have you read your homeowners insurance policy, painstakingly scouring through it to understand every nuance behind each word? Don’t be ashamed, not many people do. But that’s a big problem—as those who’ve...

Plaintiff Penny Rymal commenced her defendants Clark Products, Inc. and Clark Foodservice, Inc., ("Clark") in 1983, and after working various capacities, was named sales manager in 1993. Defendant Herman Baergen was an employee-supervisor of...

Plaintiff Carmen Polanco was diagnosed with stage IIB *** cancer in 2001 by nonparty Montefiore Hospital Center ("Montefiore"). She underwent a lumpectomy followed by radiation and chemotherapy. Polanco continued treating at Montefiore through...

By: Cynthia Borrelli and Michael J. Morris , Bressler Amery & Ross, P.C. This article addresses special considerations about surplus lines (SL) brokers like the surplus lines agent’s (SLA) license status, due diligence searches by agents of...

In Texas, although juries were required to assess a capital defendant's "future dangerousness" before sentencing him to death, a capital defendant was prohibited from presenting truthful information to his jury about when he would be eligible...

Two police officers, while cruising near noon in a patrol car, observed two men walking away from one another in an alley in an area with a high incidence of drug traffic. They stopped and asked one of the men, defendant Brown, to identify himself and...

Two subsidiaries of an American corporation formed joint ventures with a Saudi corporation. When a dispute arose over royalties that the Saudi corporation had charged the joint ventures, the Saudi corporation pre-emptively sued the subsidiaries in the...