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Rick Shapiro published an article ranking the top 10 civil justice stories of 2014.
Rick Shapiro published an article ranking the top 10 civil justice stories of 2014.
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton made almost as many national and international headlines for getting injured in a car accident on December 9, 2014, as he ever did for completing a touchdown pass or winning a career-defining award like the Heisman Trophy. The wall-to-wall coverage from outlets as diverse as England’s Daily Mail newspaper and ESPN…
Another fatal accident caused by a young driver’s speeding has occurred on North Carolina’s roads. Three teenagers were killed, and a fourth injured, when the car they were in crashed on Westridge Rd., in Greensboro. Two of the teens killed, the 15 year-old driver and a 17 year-old backseat passenger, were pronounced dead at the…
A head-on collision in Pinetops, North Carolina (NC). claimed the lives of two children and two adults. The fatal crash occurred on N.C. Highway 42 between the towns of Rocky Mount and Greenville during the afternoon of November 30, 2014. According to television station WITN, police suspect one or both of the cars…
A key ruling in an ongoing whistleblower case against Wisconsin Central Ltd. by an injured railroad mechnic who alleges he was improperly suspended strengthens job protections for all rail employees. In holding that the railroad could not enforce an arbitrary time limit for reporting an on-the-job injury, the judge in Smith-Bunge v. Wisconsin Central, Ltd. held that…