Arbitration clauses are hidden everywhere: cell phone service contracts, credit card agreements, even the user agreement included with the video game you just bought. Any time you buy something or sign a contract, there’s a good chance you ...
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One of the surgeons who designed the DePuy ASR hip replacement testified last week that the company didn’t have a “vigilance and complaint department” to probe reported problems with the devices. Instead, problems with the devices were repo...
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Vicky Elder was hurt when she stepped off an uneven drop-off in the parking lot of the Hampton Inn in Baton Rouge. She filed suit alleging the drop-off was not detectable, and thus unreasonably dangerous, because the two levels were made of...
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What happens when an FBI agent and a federal prosecutor take an impounded supercar for a joyride and wreck it? Apparently nothing. In 2009, a FBI agent and a prosecutor decided to take a 1995 Ferrari F50 sports car for a spin. The car, val...
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The Legal Intelligencer reported today that “in Piccolo v. Paterson, Judge Albert J. Cepparulo issued a one-paragraph order denying the motion to compel filed by defendants Lindsay S. Paterson, Lee Anne Paterson, Linsey Paterson and Allstat...
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Louisiana’s most recent decision involving non-compete agreements may have a significant impact on businesses who maintain relatively informal relationships with their workers. In J4H, L.L.C. v. Derouen (opinion available here), the First C...
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The Daily Report has reported that a lawsuit that several Louisiana district attorneys filed against BP PLC over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is staying in federal court. The district attorneys for Terrebonne, St. Tammany and St. Mary paris...
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The topic of red-light cameras used by local governments has attracted much debate and attention locally and across the country. The government argues they are protecting the citizens and generating funds for local government. The motorists...
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