Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish Landfill emitted odors and gasses that were capable of causing headaches, vomiting, fatigue, and other ailments that decrease quality of life, a federal judge ruled, handing a victory to hundreds of nearby homeowners and residents.
An arbitrator who ordered reinstatement of a police officer who called residents of a lower income neighborhood “fatherless,” “entitled thieves” using drugs and committing murder didn’t exceed his authority or violate public policy.
Substantial evidence supported a medical peer review body’s determination that one of its members violated federal law and its medical staff bylaws by accessing and sharing a patient’s records with an outside doctor, a California appeals court said.
Empress Ambulance Service LLC allegedly failed to protect patients’ personal information in connection with a May 2022 ransomware attack and data breach that exposed the information of nearly 320,000 current and former patients, a new proposed federal class action says.
United Rentals North America Inc. asked the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday to throw out a $5 million jury award for non-economic damages to the family of a man who died crushed by a collapsing beam because there isn’t enough evidence he was conscious before dying.
A federal judge in Washington state rejected a Chinese company’s application to force Amazon to engage in discovery as part of a patent case before a court in China.
The Federal Circuit used a video game patent-infringement case Wednesday to clarify that expert witnesses must rely on the exact definitions agreed to by the parties for terms used in patent claims, saying experts are not free to adopt different definitions—even if they don’t conflict with the original construction.
