Legal Insights Archive

Update in Race Discrimination March 2005-March 2006

New Study Shows Women Using the Ortho Evra Birth-Control Patch Double Risk of Blood Clots Compared With Those Taking Birth-Control Pill

Ortho Evra Patch for Birth-Control Exposes Women to High Estrogen Levels, Potential Risk of Dangerous Blood Clots

Building a Good Mentoring Relationship

California Adopts Sophisticated User Doctrine

The Fifth Amendment, Vicarious Liability, and the Attorney Client Privilege; How Cooperation and Waiver Can Leave Your Corporation Exposed

Paxil® Linked To Birth Defects and Congenital Malformations

Warranty Tie-in Sales Provisions Are Generally Illegal, But Could They Also Violate Antitrust Laws?

Obtaining Justice When A Child Dies

Consumer Alert: FDA Orders Class 1 Recall of Baxter International's Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps

Hospital Liability in Minnesota for Negligent Credentialing and Privileging of Physicians

Consumer Alert: Mirapex May Cause Compulsive Gambling Disorder

Nowhere to Turn: A Glance at the Facts Behind the Supposed Need for Tort "Reform"

Consumer Alert: Guidant Defibrillators Recalled

"Opt-In" Requirement Nixed for Absent Class Members

No Harm, No Foul, No Accrual

You Can Run But You Can't Hide - 271(a) Goes Wireless.

Consumer Alert: Guidant Ventak Prizm 2 Defibrillator

Ninth Circuit Outlines Three-Part Test For Class-Certification Review

Consumer Alert: Latest News on VIOXX Recall

Tax Free Exchanges Using Tenant in Common Interests: The IRS Clarifies an Otherwise Murky Area

Access To Records Clause Does Not Trump Privilege

Razing the Roof: High Court's Elsner Decision Changes the Way Cal/OSHA is Used at Trial

Federal Judge Orders Four Insurers to Honor Broad Discovery Requests

Vioxx Pulled Off the Market Because of Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

Consumer Alert: FDA Panel Urges Stronger Child and Adolescent Suicide Warnings on Antidepressants, including Paxil, Zoloft and Effexor

Case Management Issues in Patent Litigation

The Murky Future of Interchange

Unanimous Supreme Court Holds that ERISA Preempts State Law Action on Coverage Issue Reverses Fifth Circuit

Taking an Old Route: Protecting Trade Secrets By Applying the Route Cases

Hot Potato: Tossing OSHA Questions from the Judicial Realm to the Administrative Forum

Resolving Ambiguities in Insurance Policy Language: The Contra Proferentem Doctrine and Use of Extrinsic Evidence

The August 2003 Blackout and Insurance Coverage for Power Outage Losses

Waiving Goodbye: 'Grafton' says farewell to contractual pre-dispute jury waivers

Undesignated Hitters

Book's True Story Testifies to the Threat of Tort 'Reform'

Getting Something Back Subrogating After the Catastrophe

Summary of Recent Trademark Cases

'Safe Harbor' Shields Actions Taken Under Laws Later Declared Invalid

Federal Medicaid System Pre-Empts State Statutes Allowing Medical Liens

Party Must Attack Punitives Proof At Trial Or Waives Right to Do It Later

Resolving Ambiguities in Insurance Policy Language: The Contra Proferentem Doctrine and The Use of Extrinsic Evidence

When Every Second Counts

Case Offers Some Clarity for Those Making Receiving Section 998 Offers

Six Lessons I have Learned Representing Linda McDougal

Vertically Challenged

"Actual Harm" - A Prerequisite to Relief Under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act

The Fall and Rise of Terrorism Insurance Coverage Since September 11, 2001

Terrorism Insurance Update

Tort Reform Perception Versus Reality