Negligent Failure to Tree Prune

From Injured: "the wife of a Google engineer injured by a falling tree branch has sued the city of New York for $120 million dollars." - SBS

Turducken in a Federal Appellate Opinion

The torts-angle here is that it is an order about privacy law, specifically whether there is a constitutional right to informational privacy. But really this post is all about the turducken. Who...

"Kings of Torts" (aka The Dickie Scruggs Story)

In yesterday's Clarion Ledger, Sid Salter reviewed "Kings of Tort" by Alan Lange and Tom Dawson. The book tells the story of Dickie Scruggs's fall from grace in the bribery scandal that led to his...

"Sorry Works" At Work in Rhode Island

Jane Genova reports on a story out of Rhode Island: Actor James Woods had been in a bitter lawsuit with Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island over the death of his brother in 2006. As the Providence...

WSJ on Asbestos Trusts

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article about asbestos trusts that quotes Vanderbilt's Richard Nagareda and Buffalo's S. Todd Brown. It's a subscriber-only piece, so I can't link to it. However,...