Los Angeles’ city attorney sued The Weather Channel on Thursday, claiming it fraudulently and deceptively uses its Weather Channel App “to amass its users’ private, personal geolocation data,” not, as advertised — “to provide them with ‘personalized local weather data’”— but to monetize the information by selling it to third parties.
The Great Trials podcast features in-depth conversations with leading trial attorneys from across the country who discuss the courtroom strategies that helped them win landmark cases. Every episode includes one or two lawyers talking about a significant case they successfully tried in front of a judge and jury. The podcast is co-hosted by Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey, two award-winning trial lawyers. Episode one features National Trial Lawyers members Tommy and Adam Malone.
A St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded nearly $4.7 billion in total damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer. It was the first case against the company that focused on asbestos in the powder.
The jury announced the $4.14 billion award in punitive damages shortly after awarding $550 million in compensatory damages after a six-week trial in St. Louis Circuit Court.
The state of Ohio is sitting on a database that could prove the Rosetta Stone for opioid plaintiffs and defendants alike, but so far only the defendants are demanding access to it.
Two Bureau of Prisons employees filed a federal class action Monday claiming the Trump administration is violating federal labor laws by not paying certain employees during the ongoing partial government shutdown.
When the government shut down on Dec. 22, some 400,000 federal workers who were deemed “excepted employees” had to continue working.
Elizabeth Trendowski, an expert witness retained by plaintiffs and defendants in alcohol-fueled personal injury cases, agrees. She calls the period from the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve to Super Bowl Sunday the “triangle” that makes for more than half of her 450 cases across the country.
Kauai officials have agreed to pay $1 million to the family of a man who died after being hit by a police cruiser. Tthe family of 19-year-old Michael Kocher Jr. reached a settlement with Kauai County last month.
John Wayne Bobbitt has spoken out about the “nightmare” night he awoke to find his wife had cut his penis off with a knife.
Lorena Bobbitt notoriously drove off from the scene with her husband’s detached penis and tossed it out of the window into a field as she passed.
Incredibly, after an extensive police search in the area, Bobbitt’s severed member was recovered, placed into a hotdog box, and rushed to the hospital.
"The FDA has tested Johnson's talc since the '70s. Every single time it did not contain asbestos," the company said in a Dec. 19 tweet. Posted under the handle @JNJNews, it didn't mention that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found traces of asbestos in the company's Shower to Shower talc in 1973