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It’s a Sunday night after an incredibly jam-packed weekend of activities.  The family, mother, father and two teens, decide to end the weekend with a movie.  A nice wind down before another hectic week begins.  A few minutes in, the father remarks:  don’t I know that actress from something else?  To which mother offers –…

Those of you following the fortunes of COVID-19-related litigation should check out these two recently decided cases:  Garcia v. Welltower OpCo Group LLC, 2021 WL 492581 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 10, 2021), and Fields v. Brown, 2021 WL 510620 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 11, 2021).

Garcia, the older of the two (by one day),…

Along with Shakespeare’s plays and painfully plodding Victorian novels, there is a good chance that your western high school (or perhaps college) education included at least a smattering of philosophy.  The line between political science and philosophy can be hard to draw—Kant, Hobbes, and Rousseau might be featured in classes under either heading, for instance—but…

We’ve long believed that False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases – particularly in the health sciences area – are out of control.  Twenty-first century lawyers, and their solicitation techniques, have turned Abraham Lincoln’s Nineteenth Century law aimed at corrupt government contractors into its own form of corruption.  Today’s FCA racket is complete with professional relators, deceit…

One way to remove a case to federal court that we haven’t discussed much is where the defendant is either a “federal officer” (not terribly relevant to our line of work), or else is a “person acting under that officer . . . for or relating to any act under color of such office.”  28…

We write mostly about decisions in cases, with those mostly coming from judges. Occasionally, we will also comment on articles, amicus briefs, and official government pronouncements. We cannot remember the last time we explored a press release. In today’s political environment, speculation about what is contained in documents that purportedly exist but we cannot see…

The Lawyers For Civil Justice is conducting a non-scientific poll on social media concerning challenges that litigators face that involve expert evidence.  LCJ’s poll asks the following question:

The Federal Rules of Evidence and Daubert require judges to determine whether the testimony offered by an expert witness is sufficiently reliable to be admitted.  To your

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