Above The Law
JANUARY 29, 2025
According to the 2019 Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services report which recommended the creation of the ABS program, there is a decline in the representation of individuals in the people law sector. Specifically the lack of legal services for low-income individuals and rural communities.
Paralegal Bootcamp
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
My head bobbed up and down as I watched our new legal assistant bounce like a Jack Russell Terrier at my door holding a post-it-note above her head. In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. The same can hold true with new legal assistants.
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JURIST
JUNE 20, 2021
The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The unnamed plaintiffs brought their cases forward under the Alien Tort Statute. In Jesner v.
JURIST
AUGUST 5, 2021
The government of Mexico filed a complaint on Wednesday against eight gun manufacturers, holding companies and distributors, alleging tort claims based on a “deadly flood of military-style and other particularly lethal guns” across the border from the US into Mexico.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2023
The circuit court’s decision is the first judicial rejection of the so-called “Texas two-step,” a novel and controversial legal strategy in which large corporations attempt to shield themselves from mass tort liability through bankruptcy claims. The entity with the tort liability then files for bankruptcy.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Michigan college student is unable to proceed with a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled him after mistaking him for a fugitive in 2014. He also sued the officers individually under a Bivens action, claiming four violations of his Fourth Amendment rights.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
As there are no laws in Mali to aid the plaintiffs in seeking damages or civil remedies against foreign exporters, they brought their claims under US law, specifically the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Alien Torts Statute. The defendant companies are Barry Callebaut, Cargill, Hershey, Mars, Mondel?z,
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