As toxic tort claims gather momentum, independent chemical expertise will be essential to ensuring legal arguments reflect ...

Defamation protects reputation. Yet the tort has drifted from this focus and instead grounds liability in offence and distress. One goal of anti-SLAPP laws in Ontario, BC, and Manitoba was to reorient ...

Few of Gov. Brian Kemp’s policy initiatives have sparked as much controversy as his efforts to rein in rampant lawsuit abuse. He began championing this in 2023, and at the time, Georgia had one of the ...

As the Supreme Court drew to a close, the public’s attention was understandably fixated on pressing and politically charged questions such as birthright citizenship, mail-in balloting, and ...

Mass tort litigation grows like weeds. Last week, the Supreme Court created the ultimate lawsuit-killer by rejecting state ...

A December 2023 amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 tightened the standards for expert testimony, requiring experts to prove their opinions meet a preponderance-of-evidence threshold. The court ...

Unruly Republic: Speaking at the University of Texas law school on April 17, 2026, Justice Thomas lamented incivility and Wilsonian progressivism—extremes that columnist Barton Swaim argues have been ...

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) subjected several judicial nominees to his characteristic brand of intense, fast-paced questioning, testing their ...

This article discusses legal issues surrounding the harms caused by artificial intelligence, and where liability may lie if a neural network is not functioning correctly in the real world. Artificial ...

For five years, Bandleader Emery Deutsch and his wife vainly sought damages from Manhattan’s Doctors Hospital for the permanent mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital ...

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