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Last week, Led Zeppelin successfully fought off copyright infringement claims brought over descending chromatic chords used in “Stairway to Heaven,” the rock band’s most well-recognized song. The stakes of the case were huge, with “Stairway...

June 23, 2016 - Nicole Hinson and Cameron Hinson bought a Safety 1st Summit forward-facing car seat that was manufactured by Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. The Hinsons said that on May 15, 2013, they were traveling with 22-month-old C.H. buckled into the...

June 23, 2016 - On July 21, 2010, Wesley Skiles was scuba diving one mile off the coast of Boynton Beach, Florida, performing underwater cinematography for National Geographic Television. He was using a Dive Rite O2ptima closed circuit rebreather manufactured...

The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) operated Douglas State Prison. Corizon Health, Inc. and Corizon, Inc. were contracted to provide medical services at the prison. ADC allegedly had a history of failing to provide adequate health care to prisoners...

June 16, 2016 - In a recent Florida federal civil rights action, Ric Bradshaw, as Sherriff of Palm Beach County, filed a motion to dismiss a 42 U.S.C.S Section 1983 claim for supervisory liability against him. Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks denied the motion...

June 16, 2016 - A Los Angeles police detective’s claim that she was discriminated against because of her use of sick/disability time, in violation of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), was resolved in April of 2016 by a ...

J.V., a ten-year old girl, was shopping at a Macy's Inc. department store in Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, NJ on Aug. 16, 2013 with her mother Nora Valdez and her little brother B.V. The family got on an escalator in the store that had reportedly...

June 9, 2016 - On Nov. 25, 2014, Sally LaMay was legally walking through a green signal at a cross walk at Crooks Road and Maplelawn Drive when she was struck by a bus owned/operated by defendant Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation...

Most attorneys—especially those with smaller law firms—will think at least twice before taking on a medical malpractice case. The reasons for their hesitation are obvious: such cases are complex and increasingly expensive to litigate, and...

On Jan. 27, 2010, Oracle America, Inc. acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc. along with its Java platform. Oracle owned by assignment patents originally issued to Sun as well copyrights in materials that comprised the Java platform. Google Inc.'s Android...

June 2, 2016 - On June 23, 2011, Doris Green was admitted to defendant HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden, LLC, for comprehensive rehabilitation for two weeks towards the goal of her returning home to live with her daughter, Regina Honts,...

June 2, 2016 - Lorraine Patullo-Banks, a Chicago-based accountant, was walking to her home from the Park Ridge Train Station on Feb. 20, 2008. At 6:20 pm, she was struck by a car while attempting to cross Touhy Ave. near 3rd Street. She was severely injured...

Commercial truck driver turned left in front of the plaintiff on a two lane country road. Defendant alleged Plaintiff was speeding and not seat belted.

On Saturday, a 3-year-old boy crawled through a barrier and entered a gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. While the boy was splashing and walking around in a moat, a 17-year-old male lowland gorilla, Harambe, picked the boy up...

Scott Shays was a veteran of the US Navy and the Vermont National Guard. He served in Operation Enduring Freedom in Kuwait in 2005 and received an Army Commendation Medal. Mr. Shays was exposed to asbestos gaskets, packing, and external insulation used...

Eating comes as naturally to human beings as talking, walking, sleeping, and using our opposable thumbs. But according to the National Safety Council, eating food is not without its hazards, as choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury...

On Feb. 26, 2010, Lashon Bilbro-Beverly was a 40-year-old female that was 32 weeks pregnant with her 7th child. She presented to the Emergency Department of Norwegian American Hospital, complaining of shortness of breath and cough. She was diagnosed with...

On May 7, 2013, at approximately 11:00 p.m., David Silva was found lying unconscious on the front lawn of a home across from Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, after Kern County deputies responded to reports of a possibly intoxicated man...

Tyler Thomas was a 19-year-old student at Peru State College in Peru, NE. On Dec. 3, 2010, she was seen on a security camera about 1:30 a.m. walking towards her dorm. She disappeared. Then 29-year-old student Joshua Keadle told investigators that he had...

Casey Kent, 35 years old, was skateboarding on a steep bike path in the Cedar Point Estates subdivision in the City of Columbia Falls. He died as the result of an accident that occurred while he was skateboarding. The subdivision was designed and engineered...

On April 30, 2013, Sophia Maria Alcon, 77, became a resident of South Pueblo Medical Investors, Ltd. d/b/a Life Care Center of Pueblo, a nursing home in Colorado. While a resident there, she sustained several injuries, including urinary tract infections...

This was a trip/slip and fall claim by plaintiff alleging the defendant homeowners negligently installed and maintained "nosing" on their stair which caused plaintiff to fall. Plaintiff's further claimed building code violations. The defendants...

May 19, 2016 - In 1965, 10 years after the United States Supreme Court's second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, residents of Bolivar County, Mississippi, filed an action seeking the desegregation of their school system. After decades of litigation...

May 19, 2016 - Plaintiff Thomas Bumgardner alleged that as he was driving south on University Drive, defendant Joyce Barbin was driving north on University Drive and made a left turn onto NW 44th Street in front of plaintiff's vehicle. Defendant's...

Captain Corcoran was never, never sick at sea. Well, hardly ever —as audiences familiar with Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved 1878 comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore know so well. Indeed, they eagerly await the moment early in the opera when, challenged...