Conventional wisdom dictates that a lawyer being sued for legal malpractice in New York will rarely win a motion to dismiss based on lack of causation. Nevertheless, the case law suggests that a ...

In this article, Laura B. Dowgin and Thomas J. Maroney discuss the 'Burlington Insurance v. NYC Transit Authority' case and how case law regarding the duty to defend has been affected since the ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed jury instructions on negligence that resulted in a judgment of more than $183,000 for a train engineer who permanently injured his hand while working for ...

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Yesterday’s argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez was, in a word, unsatisfying. The question of governmental liability for a law enforcement shooting of innocent individuals is extremely ...

As I posted here, the March 4 oral argument in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos appeared to go well for S&W and not well for Mexico. Mexico's lawsuit seeks to hold America's federally ...

Sean Marotta argued for Ford. He proposed that, for a state court to exercise personal jurisdiction over Ford, the company’s contacts with the state must be the “proximate cause” of the accident and ...

Kyler Sherman-Wilkins, Ph.D. With the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which at least 19 children and two teachers were massacred, American exceptionalism is again on full display. As of ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Fifty years ago, Ernst Mayr published a hugely influential paper on the nature of causation in biology, in which he distinguished between proximate and ultimate causes. Mayr equated proximate ...