Posts tagged court

• Court Rules Widow's "Take-Home Asbestos" Case Can Go Forward

  Michael Roberts | April 06, 2012 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Before asbestos became widely and publicly known as a hazardous, cancer-causing substance, hundreds of thousands of people around the world faced long-term asbestos exposure and developed...

• Supreme Court Considers Corporate Liability in International Human Rights Case

  Michael Roberts | March 26, 2012 9:40 PM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The reach of the U.S. justice system and its role in enforcing international human rights is at play in a case recently argued before the Supreme Court . The case is a civil lawsuit brought...

• Arbitration - Can you Argue Against it?

  Jon Lewis | June 28, 2011 6:27 PM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Yes, but you can beat your head against a wall too. Yesterday, I had a conversation with a defense attorney on one of our cases. We filed a lawsuit against a nursing home for dropping my client's...

• Ice and Snow in Alabama - Should you Drive?

  Jon Lewis | February 04, 2011 10:56 AM | 4 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  With all of the wintery weather this year, along with all the crashes, I thought it might be a good idea to let you know what the law is out there when you are driving in such conditions. Would you...

• Supreme Court Could Outlaw Class Actions

  Dottie Perry | November 08, 2010 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A case before the U.S. Supreme Court may give that currently right-leaning body the opportunity to kill the class-action suit. Hard to believe that it's even possible, given the extent of the...

• Elections in One Week - Alabama Supreme Court

  Jon Lewis | October 26, 2010 7:10 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When it's election time, we often focus on the Governor and National races, but we are often uninformed when it comes to judicial races. This is very unfortunate because the Judiciary is one of the...

• Q & A with Alabama Supreme Court Candidate Tom Edwards

  Jon Lewis | September 28, 2010 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  What qualifies you to be an Alabama Supreme Court Justice? I love the law. And like many people, I am embarrassed by the constant articles and editorials that have been questioning the...

• Collateral Source in Alabama

  Jon Lewis | December 22, 2009 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Judge Vance issued an Order yesterday regarding collateral source. What is the collateral source rule? Well, for years, Alabama had this rule in effect. It basically said that if John Doe is in a...

• Should Supreme Court be a Settlement Tool?

  Jon Lewis | August 11, 2009 6:32 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

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• The Empathy Issue

  Greg Cusimano | May 31, 2009 11:38 AM | 2 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It is not often that I agree with columnist David Brooks. However on May 29th 2009 he published an article in the New York Times called “The Empathy Issue” that deserves note. Actually...