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Articles in Jun 2000 issue of Law Reporter

• LMRA does not preempt state law claim for retaliatory discharge
• Firefighter's rule no longer considered valid in Massachusetts
• Punitive damages not reduced by plaintiff's negligence
• Supervisor's retaliatory harassment is actionable under Title VII
• City liable for driver's death caused by tree limb that fell from city property
• Car collides with motor home: Improper control of motor home: Speeding: Multipe fractures: Concussion: Lacerations: Settlement
• Punitive damages recoverable where defendant fails to produce financial records
• Driver's vehicle dropped by crane: FELA liability: Spinal injury: Embolism: Verdict
• Medical negligence
• Personal injury claims cannot be brought under Wisconsin lemon law
• Under FAA, motions to vacate, modify, or confirm can be brough in any district with general venue
• National Flood Insurance Act does not preempt state tort claims against floor insurers
• Cause of action for breach of express warranty does not extinguish cause of action for breach of implied warranty
• Forensic stylistics expert could not testify as to authorship of unknown writings
• Statements describing contents of book are noncommercial speech worthy of First Amendment protection, despite factual inaccuracy
• Products liability
• Death of car accident victim in helicopter crash on the way to hospital is foreseeable
• DOHSA not applicable to airplane crash in U.S. territorial waters
• Mandatory IOLTA program not a taking under Fifth Amendment
• Apartment fire: Improper inspection of fire extinguishers: Fire code violations: Wrongful deaths: Settlement
• Use of same name for product: Trademark infringement: Consumer confusion: Verdict: Punitive damages
• Children adopted by stepfather after father died can bring wrongful death, survival actions for father's death
• Punitive damages recoverable in estate conversion action
• General maritime cause of action exists for wrongful death based on negligence
• Prohibited interest rate on automobile loan: Breach of warranties: Excess interest: Repair costs: Settlement
• Diagnosis based on plaintiff's self-reported medical history does not render expert testimony unreliable
• Spotlight: Settlement for couple whose insurer helped prosecute husband for arson
• Termination of distributorship: Tortious interference with contract, business relations: Loss of profits: Postverdict settlement
• Parent must provide post-minority support to child who cannot be self-supporting due to disability
• School bus backs into student: Negligent backing of bus: Foot injuries: Verdict
• Requiring cash as collateral for loans violates TILA interest rates disclosure requirements
• Employee slips in rail yard: Failure to mitigate hazardous condition: FELA liability: Knee injury: Settlement
• Directing advertisements to forum sufficient to satisfy jurisdiction requirement
• University's mandatory student activity fee is constititional
• Applicability of policymaking exception to First Amendment retaliation protection depends on job duties, not job title
• False light invasion of privacy is recognizable claim distinct from defamation
• Two-vehicle collision: Driving while intexicated: Negligent operation of vehicle: Fibromyalgia: Verdict: Punitive damages
• Car crushed between truck and tractor trailer: Negligent operation of vehicles: Wrongful death: Fractures: Structured settlement
• Ambulance collides with car: Failure to stop at red light, use sirens and lights: Closed head injury: Left side body weakness: Settlement
• Professional negligence
• Supplier of electricity owes highest duty of care to man who drowned after his helicopter struck power lines
• Two-vehicle collision: Failure to keep proper lookout, maintain control of vehicle: Speeding: Leg injuries: Broken bones: Settlement
• Vehicle strikes police car: Failure to keep proper lookout: Driving while intoxicated: Disk injuries: Settlement: Punitive damages
• City's insurer denies coverage for police officer's criminal conduct: Breach of contract: Settlement
• Employee falls over railroad switch: FELA liability: Safety Appliance Act violation: Shoulder injury: Postverdict settlement
• Children molested by little league official: Assault: Emotional distress: Verdict
• Police officers were liable for injuries caused by suspect during high-speed chase
• Company investigates senator: Invasion of privacy: Civil conspiracy: Emotional distress: Injury to reputation: Verdict: Punitive damages
• Company uses patented information: Prior disclosure: Equitable estoppel: Verdict
• Worker falls from scaffold: Structural Work Act violations: Spinal fractures: Settlement
• Age-based restrictions on mobile home rentals are constitutional
• Woman raped in apartment: Fraud: Inadequate security: Brain injury: Posttraumatic stress: Settlement
• Mandatory arbitration agreement that limits discovery and caps punitive damages recoverable by employees is unconscionable
• Circumstantial evidence is sufficient to show injury in fact and traceability in Clean Water Act citizen suit
• Conditioning bar membership on purchase of life insurance violated First Amendment right to associate
• Electrical arc from power line injures worker: Failure to locate tower safe distance from electrical lines: Burns: Structured settlement