Neighbors in a Colorado suburb have been asking the city to curb the pickleball racket since last November.
HOUSTON — An appeals court in Texas found that a mother properly served a timely expert report to the doctor she is suing after he botched her infant son’s circumcision, which went so poorly that the child will need plastic surgery and skin grafts to correct the errors. She served the report, before suing, to the doctor’s professional liability insurance carrier, which satisfied the service requirements.
HONOLULU — The Hawaii Court of Appeals found that an 85-year-old man’s caretaker financially exploited him by using his credit cards; though the elderly man testified he had authorized the purchases, his confusion during the hearing properly led the lower court to determine he was a vulnerable person.
CHICAGO — A Chicago liquor store owner won’t be getting a new trial in Illinois federal court on damages or remittitur after jurors found him liable for starting a fight with Chicago Pride Parade attendees in 2018. The man, who harassed a group of friends and slammed them with slurs before punching a woman twice and dragging her by her braids, remains liable for more than $173,000 in damages. The damages are not excessive, the court ruled.
CHICAGO — Former youth volleyball coach Rick Butler may compel production of documents from the women’s sports advocacy group that accused him of having inappropriate relationships with minors between 1994 and 2018. The coach sued for conspiracy and tortious interference, claiming the claims were false and ruined his career; the court says none of the documents he requested are shielded from discovery, and only need the names and contact information of alleged victims redacted.
LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana sheriff did not win immunity against the negligent hiring and supervision claims he’s facing after a male deputy was criminally charged with raping a female pretrial detainee he was guarding at a hospital in 2019. The woman died, but her mother sues because the guard’s presence violated the sheriff’s written policy against having a male deputy guarding a female inmate without another male deputy present, if no female deputy is available. Due to this, and the guard’s history of drug abuse and psychological treatment, the sheriff may be liable.
The detective was shot in the leg by San Diego County sheriff's deputies in a friendly fire incident when the deputies fired at a car theft suspect, who also ended up severely injured.
TYLER, Texas — A family’s amended wrongful death complaint against the dental firm where their family members, two dentists, were shot and killed by a “disgruntled patient” was tossed in Texas federal court. The family members did not show the patient’s criminal actions were foreseeable or that the dentists’ office “had a duty to protect the dentists from him.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Monsanto may not exclude expert testimony in a wrongful death lawsuit over its Roundup product, ruled a federal court in Texas. The man used the herbicide for decades before developing a recurring cancer and eventually succumbing to it. Only one expert, whose testimony “speaks only generally to the statistical value of life, and not the specific loss” involved in this case, is excluded; others, such as a neurologist who treated the deceased, may testify.
HARRISBURG, Penn. — An attorney’s defamation, false light and privacy claims failed before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, which ruled that a hospital’s criticism of the attorney was limited to his handling of wrongful death suits, and did not falsely imply he was engaged in illicit behavior. The defamation debacle arises from two wrongful death lawsuits that were filed against the hospital after a nurse admitted to killing patients.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of the owners of horses who escaped from their fencing and wandered onto U.S. Highway 80, where they fatally collided with a motorist. The hunting lodge did not intentionally or knowingly allow the horses escape before the crash, so the wrongful death claims fail.
