The wife of a sex offender didn’t have a duty to warn a minor who was abused by her husband in their home, the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a summary judgment. The wife was present during some ...
Read More »ABA Litigation Section planning to address lawyer dissatisfaction
As the incoming chair of the ABA litigation committee, Brad Brian is determined to reverse the tide of lawyer burnout. To do this, he brought together 70 lawyers, counselors, psychologists and employment specialists for a two-day meeting in Chicago last ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court justices rule on peremptory challenges
A party bringing a Batson challenge does not have to prove that it is more likely than not that the other party’s unexplained peremptory challenges were based on impermissible bias, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. A black male defendant ...
Read More »Supreme Court justices rule on religious rights of inmates
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act’s requirement that prisoners’ exercise of their religion be accommodated unless this would compromise prison safety and security does not violate the Establishment Clause, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. Ohio prison inmates, ...
Read More »Younger lawyers put work-life balance high on priority list
R. Christopher Gilreath, 33, is a lawyer, just like his father, Sidney W. Gilreath, 68. Well, not exactly. Like his father, Chris Gilreath practices personal injury law. He even works in the Memphis office of his father’s Tennessee-based, personal-injury law ...
Read More »COA rules jury shouldn't have heard joke about dying
When a guest who was fixing an air conditioner on a boat joked, “Watch, we’re going to sit here and die from carbon monoxide poisoning,” the guest and three others on board could not have known that an exhaust pipe ...
Read More »Supreme Court upholds rejection of Sprint's request for rate increase
Maybe Sprint Missouri Inc. thought it could “bank” its annual percentage rate increases for a rainy day in competition land, but a recent opinion handed down by the Missouri Supreme Court corrects that line of thinking. The Supreme Court’s interpretation ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court says jury strikes violated defendant's rights
A defendant made a sufficient showing that a state court erred in finding he had not demonstrated an improper exercise of peremptory challenges to keep blacks off the jury that convicted him of capital murder, the U.S. Supreme Court has ...
Read More »Family and Medical Leave Act Regulations under scrutiny
Employment attorneys and lobbying groups across the country are debating possible changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act regulations – and plaintiffs’ and defense groups are deeply divided as to what, if any, changes are needed. In general, plaintiffs’ ...
Read More »National Employment Lawyers Assn. president plans for year ahead
With both the U.S. Supreme Court and the EEOC facing possible changes in the year ahead, Janet E. Hill, president of the National Employment Lawyers Association, a plaintiffs’ group, says she and her members have their work cut out for ...
Read More »Attorney-client privilege first line of defense against corruption
An American Bar Association task force report released today warns that government policies eroding the corporate attorney-client privilege reduce rather than increase the ability of corporations to cooperate with government. Pressures on the privilege put public confidence in the corporate ...
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