Law Reporter
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Articles in Dec 1998 issue of Law Reporter
- Sexual assault: Inadequate security: Failure to warn: Posttraumatic stress: Settlement
- Officer who detained woman for shoplifting was not entitled to qualified immunity from (section) 1983 claim
- Expert testimony regarding cause of injury based on doctor's experience and review of medical records is admissible
- Minister's picture used on video jacket of movie about faith healer: False light invasion of privacy: Emotional distress: Settlement
- Bank had no duty to protect ATM customer where there was no notice of prior criminal activity at facility
- Limitations statute begins to run when worker learns injuries are possibly related to work-place chemical exposure
- Intersection collision: Failure to heed red light: Improper lookout: Knee injury: Emotional distress: Settlement
- Child born out of wedlock after her alleged father's death may have standing under wrongful death statute
- Intersection collision: Failure to heed red flashing light, stop signs: Ankle, foot fractures: Arbitration award
- Insurer could not assert workers' comp lien against proceeds of legal negligence action
- Administrative regulations may serve as source of fundamental public policy limiting right to discharge at-will employee
- Borrower may not assert right-to-rescind defense under TILA more than three years after transaction's consummation
- Insurance policy's cooperation clause did not override attorney-client privilege
- Jones Act: Casino worker hit by vessel door: Failure to replace door closer device: Neck injuries: Settlement
- Child injuried while playing floor hockey: Failure to provide eye protection: Unsafe equipment: Blindness: Settlement
- Out-of-state attorney was entitled to attorney fees for services rendered in connections with probate of California estate
- Insurer is bound by erroneous coverage amount listed on application form
- Domestic relations exception does not bar diversity jurisdiction over action by ex-wife for intentional infliction of emotional distress
- 42 U.S.C. (section) 1983: Excessive force: Unlawful search: Soft-tissue injuries: Verdict: Punitive damages
- Counsel's efforts lead to verdict in suit against credit bureau over erroneous credit report
by Kirby, Jennifer M - Common issues warranted class certification in action by borrowers challenging interest calculation
- Misrepresentation of product quality: Breach of warranty: Verdict
- Parents may bind their minor children to exculpatory agreements in favor of nonprofit sports organizations
- Song-Beverly Act does not prohibit prevailing sellers from recovering costs and expert witness fees
- Finding of structural non-equivalence for purpose of literal infringement precludes doctrine of equivalents infringements
- Discriminatory intent required for compensatory damages under Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act
- Worker need not prove injuries resulted from rapod repetitive motion to recover benefits for carpal tunnel syndrome
- Employee fired after returning from medical leave: Disability discrimination: Lost income: Emotional distress: Verdict: Punitive damages
- Alaska statute permitting suspension of delinquent child support obligors' driving licenses is constitutional
- Products liability
- Warsaw convention covers injuries of passenger stuck by hypodermic needle
- School bus strikes pedestrian: Failure to yield right-of-way: Foot, ankle injuries: Verdict
- Tire blows out on church van: Failure to replace tire: Unsafe operation of vehicle: Crushed pelvis: Collapsed lung: Verdict
- Woman injured when car overturns: Failure to properly install tires: Improper training: Head injury: Structured settlement
- Sale of corporation's assets to shareholder in exchange for debt forgiveness violated California Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act
- Teenager with mental disabilities drowns in camp pool: Negligent supervision: Wrongful death: Verdict
- Medical negligence
- Disability caused in part by alleged sexual harassment may be part of workers' comp claim
- Year in review
- Common membership of defense expert and defendant in mutual malpractice insurance company inadmissible
- Intersection collision: Dangerous intersection: Failure to yield right-of-way: Wrongful death: Settlement
- Private, nonprofit detoxification facility was not entitled to qualified immunity for holding man incommunicado for six hours
- Plaintiff must prove HIV exposure to recover damages for fear of contracting AIDS
- Crossing collision: Inoperative or nonvisible signals: Speeding: Failure to blow whistle: Wrongful death: Settlement
- Professional negligence
- Children exposed to carcinogenic chemicals: Failure to remove leaking underground storage tank: Neuroblastoma: Verdict
- Third party that has established parent-child relationship with child had standing to seek custody
- Jones Act: Tugboat pilot injuried in car accident: Failure to provide safe passage home: Herniated disk: Retinal tear: Settlement
- Bar patron hit by truck in parking lot: Inadequate security: Leg injury: Verdict
- Head-on collision: Failure to control vehicle: Arm, leg injuries: Settlement