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David Copperfield is a famous magician with a long-running show at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It sells out with regularity. He is being sued for negligence by an audience member who suffered serious and permanent injuries while participating...

The National Enquirer, a sensationalist tabloid, reported in a cover story that Richard Simmons, the quirky work-out guru, had “undergone shocking sex surgery to change from a man to a woman.” The headline read, “Richard Simmons: He’s...

Plaintiffs husband and wife are suing a New York fertility clinic over a donated egg that contained a genetic defect. (A fertility clinic assists couples and individuals who experience difficulty in becoming pregnant because of medical or other reasons...

The attorney for the family of a man killed by the Las Vegas shooter is petitioning the court (making a formal written application to a judge that requests action on a certain matter) to freeze (prevent transfer) of the assets of the gunman, Stephen Paddock...

Sara Palin, a former Republican vice-presidential candidate, sued the New York Times for defamation seeking $75,000 in damages. A federal judge has dismissed the case. The dismissal is related to the high standard of proof required where the plaintiff...

A terrible accident occurred on a Fire Ball ride at the Ohio State Fair and sent passengers flying. A teenager was killed and seven more were injured. Five remain in critical condition a week after the incident. The best description of the ride is the...

Music producer Dr. Luke is seeking to take a deposition of Lady Gaga relating to text messages she exchanged with pop star Kesha. Per Luke, the texts are relevant to a defamation lawsuit brought by Luke against Kesha. Kesha is a popular singer famous...

The American Law Institute (ALI) was formed in 1923, a group of law professors, lawyers, and judges, to provide the courts with a national view of the common law. The Restatements of Law of the ALI have served as a guide for courts in determining the...

Like many celebrities, Rapper Sean ‘Ditty’ Combs has a personal chef. She has sued the singer for hostile environment sexual harassment. In her complaint, she alleges that she was regularly asked to serve meals to Diddy while he was “engaged...

Lindsay Lohan’s Grand Theft Auto case alleging invasion of privacy is headed to New York’s highest court. Grand Theft Auto is an action-adventure video game series published by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., Begun in 1997, the series...

Pokemon Go is the new electronic game played mostly outside with smartphones’ camera and GPS capabilities. It is played on foot and uses augmented reality to superimpose creatures known as Pokemon onto real imagery and maps. The game also adds PokeStops...

Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, revealed that he provided about $10,000,000 to fund Hulk Hogan’s defamation suit against the online company, Gawker Media. Rolfe Winkler and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, “Thiel-Gawker Fight Divides...

See the more detailed post on the suit, on this blog for March 7, 2016. The jury came back with a verdict of $115 million. After the punitive damages phase, the jury returned with an additional $25 million in punitive damages, for a total of $140 million...

Numerous recent cases around the country involve allegations of excess police force against minorities. One such case involves a white Chicago police officer named Robert Rialmo who fatally shot a black 19-year old male, Quintonio LeGrier, and an unarmed...

In its first of the 2015-2016 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision in a tragic accident case involving a U.S. citizen traveling in Austria. In OBB Personenverkehr A.G. v. Sachs , 135 S. Ct. 1172 (2015), 2015 WL 7722430, Carol P. Sachs, of...

Fitbit and Jawbone are both companies that make fitness trackers, meaning wristbands embedded with smart technology that track people’s exercise activities. Among the information recorded is the number of steps walked in a day, and the number of...

A recent case illustrates a growing connection between social media and proving damages in a lawsuit. The lesson is that Facebook and Instagram accounts can be damning to plaintiffs and very helpful to defendants. The accounts typically host pictures...

Robin Thicke has the number one hit of the summer with his “Blurred Lines” song. The song is number one on Billboard’s charts, selling four million copies in the United States. The video for the song has 138 million views on YouTube...

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Anna Nicole Smith, age 26, married very wealthy J. Howard Marshall, age 89, a year before his death in 1995. The claim to his estate set off a legal battle that resulted in a Supreme Court holding sixteen years later. Marshall's son, Pierce...

Henry Barabin was exposed to asbestos from 1964 through 1984, primarily when he worked at a paper mill that used materials called dryer felts that contained asbestos supplied by defendants AstenJohnson and Scapa. In 2006, five years after he retired,...

Carnival Cruise is a large company, which, like many, operates numerous subsidiaries. When problems arise at sea, the company can fall under maritime or admiralty law, which has a number of provisions different from familiar domestic land-based law. For...

Ticketmaster - the seller of tickets for concerts, plays and other entertainment events - has settled a class action lawsuit (a case with multiple plaintiffs, all of whom were injured in a similar way by the defendant). The complaint alleged a deceptive...

On August 9, 2010, BP (British Petroleum North America) agreed with the Justice Department to establish a $20 billion fund to compensate individuals and businesses that were affected by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The was to reimburse...

The 2011 session of the Texas legislature passed, and the governor signed, the Omnibus Tort Reform Act. The feature of the Act receiving the most attention is the "loser pays" provision that allows a court to require a plaintiff to pay the...