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In the ninth loss for Ford in Explorer rollover cases, a Florida jury awarded $61.2 million to the parents of an 18-year-old boy who was killed in a 1997 accident. Ford won the first 13 Explorer rollover cases to go ...

The Western District Court of Appeals sent a strong message to birth parents, warning that it will not leave children in limbo. The birth father in the appeal In the Interest of: J.P.B. and A.R.B., Respondent, J.R.M. and K.A.M., Appellant ...

In 2005’s largest verdict to an individual plaintiff, a Florida jury last May ordered Morgan Stanley to pay $1.45 billion to investor Ronald O. Perelman for defrauding him in the sale of his Coleman camping gear company. The verdict sends ...

A survey of chief legal officers in U.S. corporations shows that law firms hired as outside legal counsel have been doing something right this year. The 2005 Chief Legal Officer Survey, conducted by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and ...

The federal Judiciary overall received a 6.1 percent increase for Fiscal Year 2006 over the FY 2005 appropriations level, while the courts’ Salaries and Expenses Account received a 5.4 percent increase. The Judiciary’s appropriation, however, may be reduced as Congress ...

The Western District Court of Appeals conveyed an enormous amount of power to local governing boards in the case of a state trooper’s termination. In the case Charles L. Pleasant v. Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Western District Court of ...

Glimpsing the tell-tale round sign with the five diagonal slashes flash by at 160 mph while cruising along the speed-limitless German autobahn, Benjamin Kwitek was struck by the thought there might be a consumer market for exotic road signs in ...

The Portland Design Commission couldn’t believe what it was hearing. When the commission approved final design for an eight-story condominium planned for the city’s north waterfront in August, the budget came in at $20 million; by December, the project’s general ...

The Western District Court of Appeals has opened a window for an additional exception to the statute of repose in construction torts. The court in Athena Thompson et al v. Harlan Higginbotham and Gary Sherlock and O’Riley Brothers Development Co. ...

The Seventh Circuit held on Jan. 6 that, where an officer could have impounded and searched a vehicle, it was not coercive to obtain consent to search it by threatening to do so. Two police officers in Illinois, Charles Novy ...

When Sue Suver was 19 and working as a part-time EKG technician, a cardiologist threw a metal chart at her across the room and screamed “Stupid!” Her response: “Without thinking about it I picked the chart up and threw it ...