An Illinois appeals court has ruled Ford Motor Co. must face a retrial in a suit alleging asbestos in its brakes led to a man's death from mesothelioma, saying Ford counsel's "skulduggery" in violating an evidence disclosure order improperly prejudiced the jury against the plaintiff.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued gun accessory maker Mean LLC on Thursday, saying its MA Lock device that purportedly locks a low-capacity magazine to a rifle is in fact easily removable, and that ease let the May 2022 Buffalo shooter use 30-round magazines in the AR-15-style rifle he used to kill 10 people.
A New Jersey appeals court has thrown out a woman's suit alleging doctors at a Hackensack hospital are responsible for the death of her daughter by failing to test her blood sugar when they found her unresponsive, saying despite an extension of a deadline, the woman failed to support her claim with a proper affidavit of merit.
The Ninth Circuit has dismissed a claim that Twitter violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act by allowing users to solicit and recruit a pair of 13-year-old boys for sex trafficking, while affirming the dismissal of two other claims from the suit.
A New Jersey federal judge on Monday once again trimmed all but one claim from a proposed class action alleging LG Electronics USA Inc. sold faulty dishwashers, finding that the buyers failed to allege their fraud claims with enough specific facts to proceed.