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Thursday, March 1, 2012

“Court Upholds $27 Mil. Verdict in Lackawanna Birth Defect Case”: Back in October 2010, The Legal Intelligencer — Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers — had this article reporting on the ruling of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in a case on which I worked as appellate counsel for plaintiffs.

Today. the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued this order denying the defendants’ petition for allowance of appeal. You can access plaintiffs’ answer in opposition to the petition for allowance of appeal at this link. My earlier coverage of this case appears here, here, and here.

Posted at 8:42 PM by Howard Bashman



“Montana Judge Apologizes in eMail Controversy”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted copies of the apology letters at this link.

In other news, apparently the Ninth Circuit’s Public Information Office believes that “eMail” is the way that one capitalizes the first letter of the word email.

Posted at 8:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“Court to rule later on Georgia, Alabama’s anti-illegal immigration laws”: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court in Atlanta announced Thursday that it would wait until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law before it acts on similar statutes in Georgia and Alabama, keeping parts of those measures on hold for months to come.”

And Reuters reports that “U.S. asks court to overturn Alabama immigration law.”

Posted at 6:10 PM by Howard Bashman



“Most N.D. Supreme Court justices, attorneys in Fighting Sioux nickname case have UND ties”: This article appeared yesterday in The Grand Forks Herald.

Posted at 8:22 AM by Howard Bashman



“Georgia, Alabama illegal immigration laws headed to appeals court Thursday”: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

Posted at 8:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“In this case we are asked to determine whether a physician owes nonpatients a duty to exercise reasonable care in the affirmative act of prescribing medications that pose a risk of injury to third parties.” So begins an opinion that Justice Thomas R. Lee issued on Tuesday on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court of Utah.

In coverage of the ruling, The Deseret News reported yesterday that “Utah Supreme Court rules medical staff had duty to children in David Ragsdale case.”

Yesterday’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune contained an article headlined “Utah justices: Patient’s family must be considered in treatment; Decision comes in response to suit that claims drugs given to man contributed to his shooting his wife.”

And The Daily Herald of Provo, Utah reported yesterday that “Supreme court allows kids of killer to sue medical providers.”

Posted at 8:14 AM by Howard Bashman