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Two decades after the MacLaren Children's Center was closed, former foster children housed at the El Monte facility are coming forward with allegations of abuse. Lawsuits involving about 200 ...
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The owner of the Olalla Bay Market and Landing filed a tort claim against Kitsap County on Friday, seeking $35 million. It’s the latest move in an ongoing conflict between Olsen and the county ...
[13] [14] Scruggs eventually won a settlement and earned $6 million from the state in legal fees. State Auditor Steve Patterson felt the arrangement was unethical, as Moore had no specific legal authority to contract out the work of his office to private attorneys and Scruggs had donated $20,000 to his 1991 campaign fund.
Mara v Browne [1895] is a Court of Chancery case [1] that dealt with liability as a constructive trustee ultimately ruling that, "if one, not being a trustee and not having authority from a trustee, takes upon himself to inter-meddle with trust matters or to do acts characteristic of the office of trustee, he may therefore make himself what is called in law trustee of his own wrong - i.e., a ...
Typically an asbestos plaintiff is exposed to a mixture of products during a thirty-year career in the building trades. It takes between twenty and fifty years from first exposure to the development of asbestos-caused cancer, so work histories, employment, military and social security records are used to help prove the plaintiff's exposure to various asbestos products throughout his or her career.
Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc., 552 U.S. 576 (2008), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that state and federal courts cannot, on a motion to vacate or to modify an arbitration award, expand the limited scope of judicial review specified in 9 U.S.C. §§ 10 and 11, including terms that were agreed upon by the parties.
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Boy Scouts of America's $2.46 billion settlement with sexual abuse victims to move forward, lifting a temporary pause ...