The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Do backers of a ballot initiative have standing to defend an enacted law when the state attorney general refuses to defend the law? That interesting legal question lurks within the issues presented to the US Supreme Court on gay marriage. Alison Frankel provides a cogent summary of the issues, with links to relevant briefs. As ballot initiatives thrive in some places on some issues, the question is not insignificant.
As it said it would do, J&J filed a cert petition seeking review of the Ingham verdict against it and others. The verdict involved 22 ovarian cancer claims grouped together for trial. It will be inter
SCOTUS Knocks Out Decades of Precedent, Resulting in Immediate Access to Federal Court for Takings C
Interesting times, to say the least. At the end of last week, the “conservative” block of SCOTUS overruled decades of precedent by holding that a takings claim against a state or local government can