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September 25, 2025
Sunbeam Sued Over Alleged Crock-Pot Burn Injury
Sunbeam Products Inc. and its parent Newell Brands Inc. were hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court on Wednesday brought by a woman who alleges she was able to remove the lid from a Sunbeam pressure cooker while it was still under pressure, causing her to be seriously burned.
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September 25, 2025
MiMedx, FDA Ordered To Rework Args In Wound Care Case
Biomedical company MiMedx Group Inc. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have been ordered to reframe their briefs in a suit in which the company seeks to overturn the agency's classification of a wound care treatment as a biological product.
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September 25, 2025
Pa. Justices Reject 'Key Witness' Test In Forum Swap
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday that litigants shouldn't have to prove that out-of-town witnesses are "key" to their case to get a suit moved to a more convenient forum for them, unwinding a lower court's finding that raised the bar for seeking a "forum non conveniens" transfer.
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September 25, 2025
Norfolk Southern Can't Escape Rockslide Derailment Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday denied Norfolk Southern Railway Co.'s bid to throw out a suit by a conductor and engineer over injuries they suffered when their train derailed, saying they've put forth enough evidence that a jury could conclude the railway should've been better prepared for a rockslide.
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September 25, 2025
Atty's 'Horrible' Mistake Rooted In Firm Biz, NJ Justices Hear
Former Sacks Weston attorney Scott Diamond's counsel urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday to refrain from disbarring him for fraudulently resolving cases behind his former firm's back, arguing during a hearing that his actions stemmed from a "bona fide" business dispute.
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September 25, 2025
Widow Sues Philly Port Authority Over Husband's Death
The wife of a warehouse worker is suing the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and others, alleging their negligence led to her husband being crushed to death by a bale of wood pulp while working at a PRPA-owned warehouse.
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September 25, 2025
Avon Gets Ch. 11 Plan Approved
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has confirmed Avon's Chapter 11 plan a few days after verbally agreeing to approve it.
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September 25, 2025
US Olympic Org Beats Paralympian Abuse Coverage Dispute
A Colorado federal court tossed an insurer's suit seeking to escape coverage for an underlying sexual abuse case against the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, saying the organization has no state citizenship for purposes of diversity jurisdiction.
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September 24, 2025
Boies Schiller Partner Admits AI Errors In Scientology Case
A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner representing women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Daniel Masterson's sexual assaults has asked a California appeals court to strike a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors, saying he "very much regrets" the errors, but they shouldn't impact his clients' case.
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September 24, 2025
Ex-Lyft Lobbyist Testifies For Uber In Sex Assault Trial
California has established model safety standards for the ride-hailing industry and Uber has exceeded those standards, a former lobbyist for Lyft told jurors Wednesday in a bellwether trial over claims Uber negligently failed to put sufficient measures in place to prevent sexual assaults by its drivers.
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September 24, 2025
Crocs Kicks Rival's Defamation Suit To The Curb
A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday tossed a defamation suit brought against Crocs Inc. by its rival Double Diamond, finding the company failed to provide any evidence of damages or harm suffered from a press release it said twisted their legal settlement into an admission of wrongdoing.
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September 24, 2025
Ga. Panel Reverses Early Win In Ambulance-Mower Crash
A Georgia appellate panel revived a negligence claim Wednesday from a man who said he was hit by a speeding ambulance while crossing a road in his lawn mower, rejecting a trial court's finding that there was "no evidence" the ambulance driver was at fault.
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September 24, 2025
Gunmakers Ask 2nd Circ. For Another Chance At Liability Law
The Second Circuit has been asked to reconsider its recent ruling that upheld a New York public nuisance statute allowing claims specifically against gun manufacturers that cause public harm, saying the decision flouts a federal law shielding those companies from the criminal misuse of guns.
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September 24, 2025
9th Circ. Says Insurer's Removal Effort Was Reasonable
An insurer for a residential property owner had a reasonable basis to try to remove its coverage dispute over underlying shooting claims to Washington federal court, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday, noting the owner even failed to identify the citizenship of all its members and partners.
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September 24, 2025
Binance Founder Not Properly Served In Terror Case: Judge
Victims of the October 2023 attack in Israel suing Binance for allegedly abetting the attack have been denied permission to serve the cryptocurrency exchange's founder by alternative means, after a D.C. federal judge ruled that their "relatively minimal effort" to serve him via conventional means wasn't enough.
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September 24, 2025
Pharmacies Labeled As Gatekeepers In Fla. Opioid Trial
A medical doctor who testified Wednesday in a Florida state court trial against Walgreens, Walmart and CVS over their alleged conspiracy to push addictive painkiller drugs characterized their pharmacists as gatekeepers in dispensing the medications, saying they had the ability to break the pharmaceutical companies' ability to make money off the opioid epidemic.
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September 24, 2025
Bank Says It's Being Blocked From Settlement Fund Market
Flatirons Bank has sued Eastern Point Trust Co. in Wyoming federal court for allegedly blocking competition in the market for qualified settlement fund services by threatening baseless litigation and falsely claiming that Flatirons' platform copies its own offering.
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September 24, 2025
Calif. Panel Won't Upend $1M Motorcycle Crash Verdict
A California appeals panel won't order a new trial or disturb a $1 million verdict awarded to a man who fractured his pelvis and arm in a motorcycle accident, with the justices rejecting the other driver's arguments that evidence was wrongly excluded from the trial.
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September 24, 2025
Sen. Questions FAA's Proposed $3M Boeing Safety Fine
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is seeking answers from the Federal Aviation Administration on the calculations behind a proposed fine of $3.1 million against Boeing for safety violations that led to last year's Alaska Airlines door plug incident, and has told the agency the penalty would amount to a "rounding error" for the aerospace giant.
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September 24, 2025
Woman Must Arbitrate Suit Against Verizon Over Stalker
A North Carolina federal judge has sent to arbitration a woman's suit against Verizon Communications Inc. alleging it handed her personal information over to her stalker, saying her claims against the company are not subject to a federal law precluding arbitration for sexual harassment claims.
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September 24, 2025
American Airlines, US Gov't Sued Over Potomac Crash
A new wrongful death complaint brought by the wife of an American Eagle Flight 5342 victim names both American Airlines and the United States government as liable in the "wholly avoidable tragedy" that killed 67 people on the Potomac River in January.
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September 24, 2025
Firm Sues For $1.7M Fees In Texas Mass Shooting Case
A Texas law firm is stepping up its litigation efforts to recover $1.7 million in fees it claims it is owed for work performed on behalf of victims of a 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, namely by filing its third lawsuit in state court this month.
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September 24, 2025
Primary Carrier Failed To Settle Before $3M Verdict, Suit Says
A Berkshire Hathaway unit serving as primary insurer for a commercial property owner failed to adequately defend the owner in a worker injury lawsuit, exposing both the owner and its tenant to a $3 million jury verdict, an excess insurer told a Florida federal court.
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September 24, 2025
SharkNinja Gets Expert, Suit Alleging Blender Injury Tossed
A Colorado federal judge has given SharkNinja Operating LLC a win in a suit alleging one of its blenders spilled hot contents onto a woman because of a design defect, finding her expert's opinions were unreliable and inadmissible.
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September 23, 2025
OTC Drug Co. Must Face Shampoo Cancer Risk Class Action
A Pennsylvania federal judge denied Lake Consumer Products Inc.'s request to toss a putative class action alleging it manufactures coal tar shampoo with known carcinogens, reasoning that most of the claims against the company were plausible enough to move forward.
Expert Analysis
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How Mass Arbitration Defense Strategies Have Fared In Court
As businesses face consumers who leverage arbitration agreements to compel mass arbitration, companies are trying defense strategies like batching arbitration cases to reduce costs, and escaping specific mass arbitrations without rejecting the process completely, with varying results in the courtroom, say attorneys at Montgomery McCracken.
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Perspectives
Reading Tea Leaves In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions
The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School.
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$38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils
A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.
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Series
Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.
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Choosing A Road To Autonomous Vehicle Compliance
As autonomous vehicle manufacturers navigate the complex U.S. regulatory landscape, they may opt for different approaches to following federal, state and local rules and laws, as they balance the tradeoffs between innovation, compliance and speed of deployment, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery
The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.
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Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.
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Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
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High Court's Ruling May Not Stop Ghost Gun Makers
In Bondi v. VanDerStok, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Gun Control Act applies to untraceable "ghost gun" kits under certain circumstances — but companies that produce these kits may still be able to use creative regulatory workarounds to evade government oversight, says Samuel Bassett at Minton Bassett.
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4 Ways To Leverage A Jury's Underdog Perceptions
Counsel should consider how common factors that speak to their client's size, power, past challenges and alignment with jurors can be presented to try and paint their client as a sympathetic underdog, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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Why Hiring Former Jurors As Consultants Can Be Risky
The defense team's decision to hire former juror Victoria George in the high-profile retrial of Karen Read shines a spotlight on this controversial strategy, which raises important legal, ethical and tactical questions despite not being explicitly prohibited, says Nikoleta Despodova at ND Litigation.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw
While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.
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Combs Case Reveals Key Pretrial Scheduling Strategies
The procedural battles over pretrial disclosure deadlines leading up to the criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs show how disclosure timing can substantially affect defendants’ ability to prepare and highlight several scheduling pointers for defense counsel, says Sara Kropf at Kropf Moseley.
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Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them
Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.