Lawsuit Abuse Impact News

In the sudden acceleration cases against Toyota, there are confidential documents and highly confidential documents. And then there is what the judge overseeing most of the cases called the company's "crown jewels"—the source software code behind the electronics of its vehicles, which almost no one has seen. 

While companies involved in mergers and acquisitions have experienced a surge in litigation in recent years, three court decisions last month have taken aim at plaintiffs’ attorney fees. 

The two hottest litigation areas these days are wage-and-hour and regulatory/compliance cases, according to legal data expert Craig Raeburn and general counsel Robert Ingato. But that isn't translating into more legal spending by corporate law departments.

In this city of innumerable tourist attractions, the clanging, hill-conquering cable cars stand out as a top draw. The quaint conveyances also stand out for the inordinate number of accidents and the millions of dollars annually the city pays out to settle lawsuits for broken bones, severed feet and bad bruises caused when 19th-century technology runs headlong into 21st-century city traffic and congestion.

Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday signed into law liability-waiving legislation aimed at saving the state's nearly quarter-billion-dollar investment in a futuristic spaceport and retaining its anchor tenant, British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.

Losers pay in Judge Emmet Sullivan's courtroom, at least when those losers bring a "frivolous, unreasonable and groundless" lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act. This welcome news is contained in a Friday order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.