Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...
A Seattle police lieutenant, who is named in a July lawsuit filed by four female officers alleging gender discrimination and sexual harassment, filed his own tort claim against the city last week, ...
The Northern District of California's San Francisco federal courthouse located at Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse in San Francisco, Calif. (Natalie Hanson / Courthouse News) ...
Trucks queuing at a container terminal gate. (photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles) SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota joined the slight majority of states that recognize tort claims for ...
A social media video of the professor at a pro-Palestine demonstration led to discipline. Her lawyers say the content of the clip was sarcastic, taken out of context and part of a private conversation ...
One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...
Two doctrines frequently arise in Pennsylvania jurisprudence when addressing disputes between the parties to a contract: the parol evidence rule and the gist of the action doctrine. While each serves ...
Multiple lawsuits and a tort claim that have come to light recently accuse the city of Caldwell and the Caldwell Police Department of discriminatory workplace violations. The lawsuits, filed by former ...
The Federal Tort Claims Act, the law the president invoked to try to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars, is ordinarily a legal labyrinth that few can navigate. George Retes, Jr., an Army veteran, ...
Environmental law did not begin with enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969. Nor did it begin when Massachusetts adopted the first state wetland protection statute in 1963 ...
In mass tort litigation, experience is essential for success. With this in mind, you should not hesitate to ask about a mass tort lawyer’s experience during your free initial consultation. Likewise, ...