On June 23, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling significantly expanding individual gun ownership and carry rights, while severely limiting the authority of states to regulate firearms possession. According to the Court, the U.S. Constitution grants Americans the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.... Read More »
Activision Blizzard is one of the largest video game companies in the world. Through its subsidiaries, Activision owns the rights to powerhouse video game franchises such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. The company has been hit with a number of complaints over the last year alleging widespread... Read More »
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been cracking down on healthcare fraud schemes in recent years. Particularly in light of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the DOJ is pursuing healthcare law violations with renewed vigor. In a recent press release, the DOJ announced a complaint filed against several healthcare entities alleging... Read More »
Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Mylan Technologies, Inc. and Walgreen Co. have been targeted in a lawsuit alleging that their transdermal birth control patch causes an increased risk of blood clots. The plaintiff, Erica Martinez, claims that she was prescribed Xulane, a birth control patch manufactured and distributed by the pharma companies. She... Read More »
Baby formula manufacturers Abbott Laboratories, Inc. and Mead Johnson & Company, LLC have been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit in Louisiana based on allegations that their products cause fatal health problems in premature infants. Parents Deondrick W. Brown, Sr. and Rebekah Etienne filed their claims following the death of... Read More »
The search for a safe form of long-term birth control continues. A number of lawsuits in recent years have decried the dangers of the most popular intrauterine uterine devices (IUDs) which, despite being marketed as safe and effective, have caused thousands of women to suffer infection, injury, and in severe... Read More »
Medical malpractice cases are among the most complex in the personal injury arena. They are not only challenging to prove, requiring judges or juries to weigh competing testimony from medical experts; they also tend to have more specific rules regarding damage caps and other procedural issues. Medical malpractice laws must... Read More »
Wells Fargo has faced its share of scandals in recent years. They’ve been accused of fraudulent behavior, such as creating millions of fake accounts in customers’ names, as well as discriminatory conduct such as disproportionately denying mortgage refinancing to black homeowners. In past years the financial institution has paid millions... Read More »
There’s been a battle brewing in recent decades between proponents of anti-discrimination protections and advocates for ostensible religious freedoms. Religious organizations and religious parties claim they should have the freedom to operate businesses in line with their religious views, even if that means turning away customers or employees that have... Read More »
The Families First and Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA), as amended by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, mandates that testing for COVID-19 infection must be free to the patient so long as the federally-declared state of emergency persists. The laws also provide that the associated office visit... Read More »
A Texas hospital has filed a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (BCBS) for wrongfully denying coverage for emergency services and post-stabilization care. According to Memorial Hermann Health System, BCBS instituted a policy of denying coverage for services that it unilaterally deemed non-emergency, despite its contractual and moral... Read More »
Health advocates have spent decades speaking out about the dangers of cigarettes. Smoking tobacco has been definitively linked to heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and cancer, among other debilitating and dangerous conditions. The tobacco lobby, on the other hand, has downplayed the dangers of cigarettes and continuously fought for the... Read More »
On August 30, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued a bombshell opinion in a case titled McHugh v. Protective Life Insurance Company. The Court found that recent amendments to the California Insurance Code establishing notice requirements prior to policy lapse applied to all policies then in force, not just new... Read More »
Intellectual property is property. We all know this from the ads that used to tell us about how downloading a song from Napster is the moral equivalent of stealing a car. Regardless of how those particular ads impacted your internet habits, the spirit of the argument was clear: Many companies... Read More »
The battle between intellectual property owners and software piracy is as old as the internet. Streaming websites and peer-to-peer file sharing applications such as Napster, LimeWire, Kazaa, and DC++ have allowed consumers to acquire music, television shows, video games, movies, and other content for free, to the chagrin of movie... Read More »
