In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Tuesday, February 09, 2010  #2     1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Umar Delgado, Defendant-Ap ...

Toyota has told dealers it's preparing a plan to repair the brakes on thousands of hybrid Prius cars in the U.S. In a message sent last night to dealers, a Toyota group vice president, Bob Carter, said the company is working on a plan and will disclose more details early next week. More than 100 dr ...

Cover via AmazonThe U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has upheld a trial court's dismissal of a defamation suit against best-selling legal thriller author John Grisham arising from his novel, The Innocent Man.In Peterson v. Grisham (Case No. 08-7100), the appellate court sided with ...

Carter Dillard (Loyola University New Orleans) has posted the following articles on SSRN: Future Children as Property, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Between Skinner v. Oklahoma and the advent of modern substantive due...

The Caesar Rodney Institute blog reports that the Delaware State Sportsmen's Association is prepared to sue against the divisions of the State housing authority that impose lease conditions forbidding firearms possession.

This week, aviation accident attorneys from across the country met on Maui to discuss current topics in aviation law. This was part of the American Association of Justice's Winter Convention. I was honored to have been asked to speak. My talk was on Hawaii helicopter crash litigation -- a topic with ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Jan. 28 proposed a new rule requiring employers to report more detail on musculoskeletal injuries. Business interests fear OSHA's move is just an interim step toward reviving the Clinton Administration's ergonomics regulation, enacted...

The slow march toward integrating openly gay servicemen and women into the U.S. military appears to have begun with testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today in Washington D.C. Testifying before the committee was Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, A ...

In the week following the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, members of Congress introduced 10 pieces of legislation to limit the impact of the decision. (List here.) Other bills had been introduced before the decision, as well....

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) chaired a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing Tuesday, "Corporate America vs. The Voter: Examining the Supreme Court's Decision to Allow Unlimited Corporate Spending in Elections." His over-the-top opening statement on the Citizens United ruling would...