Featured Cases

• FELLNER v. TRI-UNION SEAFOODS, L.L.C.

  2:2006cv00688
  Filed in New Jersey District Court
  Type of Suit: Personal Injury- Product Liability
  Plaintiff: DEBORAH FELLNER; Defendant: TRI-UNION SEAFOODS, L.L.C.
  Judge: Dennis M. Cavanaugh
  Cause Of Action: Diversity
  (March 10, 2011)

• PFM Air, Inc. et al v. Dr.Ing.hc.F.Porsche A.G. et al

  8:2008cv00392
  Filed in Florida Middle District Court
  Type of Suit: Airplane Product Liability
  Plaintiff: PFM Air, Inc., Goedicke Inc of America, Peter Collinson Family, LP, AB Consulting, Inc., Pacific Aeromarine, Inc. and others...; Defendant: Dr.Ing.hc.F.Porsche A.G., Porsche Cars North America, Inc., Porsche Aviation Products, Inc., Gary Butcher
  Judge: Elizabeth A. Kovachevich
  Cause Of Action: Diversity
  (January 25, 2011)

• FERRARA v. UNITED STATES FLAG AND TOUCH FOOTBALL LEAGUE

  3:2009cv00094
  Filed in Florida Northern District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Personal Injury
  Plaintiff: SEAN S. FERRARA; Defendant: UNITED STATES FLAG AND TOUCH FOOTBALL LEAGUE
  Judge: M CASEY RODGERS
  Cause Of Action: Diversity
  (August 4, 2010)

• Smidt v. Ryle et al

  2:2010cv00072
  Filed in Wyoming District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Personal Injury
  Plaintiff: Richard J Smidt. Defendant: Franklin J Ryle, Wyoming Department of Transportation John Cox, Wyoming Highway Patrol Colonel Sam Powell, Jess Oyler, John Butler and other.
  Judge: Clarence A Brimmer
  Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
  (April 12, 2010)

• Dall v. Alomar

  1:2009cv00514
  Filed in New York Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Personal Injury
  Plaintiff: Ilya Dall; Defendant: Roberto Alomar
  Judge: David G. Trager
  Cause Of Action: Diversity
  (May 17, 2009)

Dockets

• Bril-Netis et al v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. et al

  3:2012cv00497
  Filed in Texas Northern District Court
  Type of Suit: Personal Injury- Product Liability
  Plaintiff: Vera Bril-Neti and Solomon Neti. Defendant: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Depuy International, LTD, Johnson & Johnson Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. Pecial_master: Special Master.
  Judge: Ed Kinkeade
  Cause Of Action: Diversity-Personal Injury
  (February 15, 2012)

• Chavez et al v. Autobuses El Faisan, S A De C V et al

  1:2012cv00487
  Filed in Georgia Northern District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Personal Injury
  Plaintiff: Patricia Ann Chavez. Defendant: Autobuses El Faisan, S A De C V, Transportes El Faisan, S A De C V and Fictitious Defendants A, B and C.
  Judge: Marvin H. Shoob
  Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal- Wrongful Death
  (February 15, 2012)

• Bivins v. American Medical Systems, Inc.

  2:2012cv10701
  Filed in Michigan Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Personal Injury- Product Liability
  Plaintiff: Jackie Bivin. Defendant: American Medical Systems, Inc.
  Judge: Robert H. Cleland
  Cause Of Action: Diversity-Product Liability
  (February 15, 2012)

• Carrington v. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al

  3:2012cv10295
  Filed in Illinois Southern District Court
  Type of Suit: Personal Injury- Product Liability
  Plaintiff: Miranda Carrington. Defendant: Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Bayer Corporation, Bayer Healthcare LLC, Bayer Healthcare AG and other.
  Judge: David R. Herndon
  Cause Of Action: Diversity-Personal Injury
  (February 15, 2012)

• Cowart v. Wright Medical Technology, Inc. et al

  2:2012cv00440
  Filed in Louisiana Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Personal Injury- Product Liability
  Plaintiff: Mae Ellar Cowart. Defendant: Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and Wright Medical Group, Inc.
  Judge: Helen G. Berrigan
  Cause Of Action: Diversity-Product Liability
  (February 15, 2012)

Legislation

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3862 Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2012

  To impose certain limitations on consent decrees and settlement agreements by agencies that require the agencies to take regulatory action in accordance with the terms thereof, and for other purposes.
  (January 30, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: S.2042 A bill to reinstate the reporting provision relating to fees and ...

  A bill to reinstate the reporting provision relating to fees and expenses awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions involving the United States.
  (January 28, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3806 One Subject at a Time Act

  To end the practice of including more than one subject in a single bill by requiring that each bill enacted by Congress be limited to only one subject, and for other purposes.
  (January 21, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3713 Equitable Treatment for the Living Victims of Lockerbie Act

  To direct the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to receive and determine the validity and amount of claims for loss of wages and other property of those plaintiffs in the case Bruce D. Abbott et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
  (December 14, 2011)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3725 Libyan Assets Taxpayer Reimbursement Act of 2011

  To authorize the President to vest certain property of the Government of Libya seized or blocked by the United States and to authorize the use of that property to defray the full costs of Operation Odyssey Dawn and United States participation in NATO Operation Unified Protector, and for other purposes.
  (December 14, 2011)

Regulations

• Rule - Procedures for the Handling of Retaliation Complaints under Section 806 of the ...

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  Rule
  Procedures for the Handling of Retaliation Complaints under Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  ,
  68084-68097 [2011-28274]
  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Part 1980 [Docket Number: OSHA-2011-0126] RIN 1218-AC53 Procedures for the Handling of Retaliation Complaints Under Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as Amended AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor. ACTION: Interim Final Rule; request for comments. SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is amending the regulations governing employee protection (``retaliation''... [read document]
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  (November 2, 2011)

• Proposed Rule - Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements: NAICS ...

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  Proposed Rule
  Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements:
  NAICS Update and Reporting Revisions
  ,
  59952-59953 [2011-24779]
  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Part 1904 [Docket No. OSHA-2010-0019] RIN 1218-AC50 Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements--NAICS Update and Reporting Revisions AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Proposed rule; Notice of reopening of rulemaking record. SUMMARY: OSHA is reopening the rulemaking record to allow interested persons to comment on OSHA's proposal to update Appendix A to... [read document]
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  (September 27, 2011)

• Proposed Rule - Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements: NAICS ...

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  Proposed Rule
  Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements:
  NAICS Update and Reporting Revisions
  ,
  36414-36438 [2011-15277]
  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Part 1904 [Docket No. OSHA-2010-0019] RIN 1218-AC50 Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements--NAICS Update and Reporting Revisions AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: OSHA is proposing to update Appendix A to Subpart B of its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation. Appendix A contains a list of industries that are... [read document]
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  (June 21, 2011)

• Rule - Standards Improvement Project: Phase III

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  Rule
  Standards Improvement Project:
  Phase III
  ,
  33590-33612 [2011-13517]
  Vol. 76 Wednesday, No. 110 June 8, 2011 Part IV Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, 1917 et al. Standards Improvement Project--Phase III; Final Rule Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 110 / Wednesday, June 8, 2011 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1926 and 1928 [Docket No. OSHA-2006-0049] RIN 1218-AC19 Standards Improvement Project--Phase III... [read document]
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  (June 7, 2011)

• Rule - Compliance Directive for Fall Protection in Residential Construction

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  Rule
  Compliance Directive for Fall Protection in Residential Construction
  ,
  80315 [2010-32154]
  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Part 1926 Compliance Directive for Fall Protection in Residential Construction AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Notice of Significant Enforcement Policy Change; Rescission of Interim Fall Protection Compliance Directive for Residential Construction. SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is issuing compliance directive STD 03-11-002 Fall Protection in... [read document]
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  (December 21, 2010)

Articles

• Negligence, Hand Formula, and Compensation

  Eugenio Battesini affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: January 22, 2012 Working Paper Series 13 downloads Personal Jurisdiction and Product Liability USC Law and Economics Research Papers Series No. C12-2, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 12-4 Daniel Klerman University of Southern California Law School Date Posted: January 20, 2012 Last Revised: February 17, 2012
  (February 16, 2012)

• Financiers as Monitors: Unbundling Agency, Risk, and Reward in Aggregate Litigation

  UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1968961 Elizabeth Chamblee Burch University of Georgia Law School Date Posted: December 07, 2011 Last Revised: January 30, 2012
  (January 29, 2012)

• Duo Cum Faciunt Idem, Non Est Idem - Evidence from Austrian Pain and Suffering Verdicts

  Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni , Andrea M. Leiter and Hannes Winner UMIT, Department of Public Health and Health Technology Assessment , Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck and University of Salzburg - Department of Social and Economic Science Date Posted: January 13, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Empirical Analysis of Tort Damages RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF TORTS, Jennifer Arlen, ed., Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-01 W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt Law School Date Posted: January 13, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 60 downloads Innovation, Tort Law, and Competition Klaus Heine and Florian Baumann Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics and University of Tuebingen - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Date Posted: January 10, 2012 Working Paper Series 25 downloads Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2011: Twenty-Fifth Annual Survey American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 60, 2012 Symeon C. Symeonides Willamette University - College of Law Date Posted: January 06, 2012 Last Revised: January 29, 2012
  (January 28, 2012)

• An American Perspective on the New Japanese Act on General Rules for Application of Laws

  Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 59, pp. 298-313, 2009, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper Ronald A. Brand and Tabitha S. Fish University of Pittsburgh - School of Law and Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. Date Posted: February 16, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Time is Money? A Law and Economics Approach to ‘Loss of Time’ as Non-Pecuniary Loss RILE Working Paper No. 2012/01 Louis T. Visscher Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Law Date Posted: February 16, 2012 Working Paper Series 3 downloads The 70th Annual Conference of the University of Latvia in the Legal Science: A Plenary Session on the Legal Environment of Innovations: A Conference Report Vadim Mantrov University of Latvia Date Posted: February 11, 2012 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Proof of Classwide Injury Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2012, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-03 Sergio J. Campos University of Miami - School of Law Date Posted: February 07, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 20 downloads Auditors and the Post-2002 Litigation Environment Research in Accounting Regulations, Forthcoming Ross D. Fuerman Suffolk University - Department of Accounting Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 22 downloads D & O Insurance: A Primer American University Business Law Review, Vol. 1, 2012 Lawrence J. Trautman and Kara Altenbaumer-Price affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 143 downloads PRC Tort Liability Law 2009: Implications for Enterprises Operating in China Kristie Thomas Nottingham University Business School Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Working Paper Series 4 downloads New Private Law Theory and Tort Law: A Comment Harvard Law Review Forum, 2012, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-04 Keith N. Hylton Boston University Date Posted: February 01, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 44 downloads 'I'm Not Gay - Not that There's Anything Wrong with That!': Are Unwanted Imputations of Gayness Defamatory? Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 249, 2006, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper Dean R. Knight Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law Date Posted: January 31, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 2 downloads A Medical Liability Toolkit, Including ADR Journal of Legal Metrics, Forthcoming , George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-09 Michael I. Krauss George Mason University School of Law Date Posted: January 31, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 32 downloads Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Patents: One Experimental View of the Cathedral Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vo. 14, p. 138, 2011 Andrew W. Torrance and Bill Tomlinson University of Kansas - School of Law and University of California, Irvine Date Posted: January 29, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 70 downloads The Evolving Legal Regime for Autonomous Vehicles Sam Wardle affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: January 27, 2012 Working Paper Series Challenges to the Patent System Giuseppina (Pina) D'Agostino Osgoode Hall Law School - York University Date Posted: January 25, 2012 Working Paper Series 6 downloads The Effect of Bankruptcy Exemptions on Medical Malpractice Insurance Limits Tom Baker , Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick University of Pennsylvania Law School , Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and University of Pennsylvania Law School Date Posted: January 24, 2012 Working Paper Series 15 downloads Tort Liabilities and Torts Law: The New Frontier of Chinese Legal Horizon Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2011, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-23 Mo Zhang Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law Date Posted: January 24, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 68 downloads Economic Analysis of Punitive Damages: Theory, Empirics, and Doctrine RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF TORT, Jennifer Arlen, ed., Kluwer, Forthcoming, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-02 Catherine M. Sharkey New York University (NYU) - School of Law Date Posted: January 23, 2012 Last Revised: January 27, 2012
  (January 26, 2012)

• How to Share Sequential Liability: A Cooperative Game Theoretical Approach

  Samuel Ferey and Pierre Dehez affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Louvain Date Posted: January 23, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads Optimal Attorney Advertising Michael P. Stone and Thomas J. Miceli Quinnipiac University - Department of Economics and University of Connecticut - Department of Economics Date Posted: January 23, 2012 Working Paper Series 2 downloads The Vicissitudes of Tort: A Response to Professors Rabin, Sebok & Zipursky DePaul Law Review, Vol. 60, 2011, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-01 Catherine M. Sharkey New York University (NYU) - School of Law Date Posted: January 23, 2012 Last Revised: January 27, 2012
  (January 26, 2012)

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