Overview: In Puskar v City and County of San Francisco the Court of Appeal, Fifth District, found that while San Francisco may have been negligent in removing a fire extinguisher from one of its cabins in Yosemite National Park, thus contributing to the tenant’s injuries ... Read more >
Overview: Neutrogena was sued for labeling their sunscreen products, ‘sunblock,’ ‘waterproof,’ and ‘sweatproof’, when in fact those claims are not true. In fact the FDA prohibited using those labels in 2011, with a regulation effective date of Dec 17 2012. Neutrogena was sued for using ... Read more >
Overview: Navarete v Meyer is a fascinating new Court of Appeal case where liability was found against a shot gun seat passenger for shouting ‘go faster’ to the driver when she knew he was approaching dips on a residential street, so he foolishly punched it ... Read more >
Overview: Family Law 101 A: earnings and wages earned by a spouse while ‘living separate and apart’ from their spouse are the separate property of the earning spouse. Query: if the spouses are on the verge of a dissolution and living in separate rooms (and ... Read more >
Overview: ‘Shark finning’ is the practice of removing the fins from a living shark, almost always used to make shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese dish. In 2011 after finding that ‘tens of millions of sharks die each year’ due to shark finning, California passed ... Read more >
Overview: An LA police officer assumed she had committed the perfect crime, but alas, 23 years after she shot and killed the fiancé of her lover, staging the crime scene to look like a robbery gone wrong, DNA evidence collected at the Van Nuys crime ... Read more >
Overview: The ‘Stella Awards’, named for 81 year old Stella Liebeck, who spilled scalding coffee on her lap and successfully sued McDonalds, are cycled and recycled year after year on the internet, and every reader comes away hating lawyers for winning judgments in totally frivolous ... Read more >
Overview: Jim Porter's Law Review discusses parent's liability for their children's acts whether that be broken contracts or tort damages like injuries caused by the child, even willful acts and vehicle liability -- read up and see if you are responsible for Junior's bad behavior. ... Read more >
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