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Articles in May 2004 issue of Law Reporter

• COURT DOCUMENT SETS BY TOPIC: AGE DISCRIMINATION
• Security guards beat woman suspected of shoplifting: Use of excessive force: Assault, battery: Knee injuries: Verdict
• Coach has unlawful sex with student: Negligent hiring, retention, supervision: Emotional distress: Settlement
• Consumers may not sue phone companies under antitrust law for providing bad service to local carriers
• Workers knocked down by metal frame: Negligence: Injured neck, ankle: Fractured ankle: Verdict
• Woman's nail punctured during manicure: Negligent sanitation, performance: Infection: Verdict: Punitive damages
• Man shot by police: Wanton and willful misconduct: Wrongful death: Verdict
• Salesman sprayed by hot water from milk processor: Failure to use lockout procedure: Burns: Settlement
• Man may sue police who arrested him for violation of protective order without reading the order
• COURT DOCUMENT SETS
• Student at state university may sue professor for harassing remarks
• COURT DOCUMENT SETS BY TOPIC: ADMISSIBILITY OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
• Truck crosses centerline: Head-on collision: Vicarious liability: Wrongful deaths: Head injuries: Postverdict settlement
• Woman drowns while parasailing: Failure to maintain towrope, instruct parasailers: Wrongful death: Verdict
• Broadcasting company fails to renew license for comedy films: Copyright infringement: Lost revenue: Verdict
• Motorcycle rear-ended by car: Failure to keep proper lookout: Head injuries: Tracheotomy: Multiple fractures: Settlement
• Punitive damages award in Exxon Valdez case was not excessive
• Third party administrator fails to settle for policy limits: Bad faith: Settlement
• Health insurance policyholders' plan booklet omits exclusion contained in master plan: Breach of contract: Bad faith: Settlement
• FTCA does not bar suits for postal workers' common law torts
• Man slips on ice: Negligent maintenance: Head injuries: Cognitive deficits: Settlement
• Voluntary payment doctrine and liquidated damages clauses do not bar cable subscribers' action alleging excessive late fees
• Attorney for deceased client may not assert attorney-client privilege when surviving spouse has waived it and court orders testimony
• Car strikes motorcycle: Driving while intoxicated: Improper lookout: Knee, hip injuries: Postverdict settlement
• Girl loses consciousness in pool during field trip: Negligent supervision: Wrongful death: Verdict
• Machinist crushed between rail car and lathe: FELA liability: Wrongful death: Settlement
• Worker injured carrying heavy valve up stairs: Negligence: Unseaworthiness: Herniated disk: Settlement
• Skier hit by another skier, thrown into tree: Negligence per se: Wrongful death: Structured settlement
• Destruction of evidence in products liability suit: Spoliation: Inability to pursue claim: Verdict
• Airline Deregulation Act does not completely preempt claims by passenger who fell down airplane steps
• Utility company owed duty to pedestrian hit by truck on unlit street
• Tavern owed patron duty to protect against gang violence
• Derogatory postings on Internet bulletin board constituted defamation
• Ohio Supreme Court adopts "substantially younger" standard for claims alleging age-based discrimination
• Man strikes head on pool bottom: Inadequate warnings: Paralysis: Verdict
• Car inspector receives electric shock after touching fuse box: FELA liability: Herniated disk: Settlement
• Bankrupt consumer contacted for debt collections: FDCPA violations: Deceptive practices: Statutory damages: Settlement
• COURT DOCUMENT SETS BY TOPIC: SNOW SKIING
• Presumption in favor of relocating custodial parent is no longer applicable in Georgia
• Scaffold collapses under drywall worker: Violation of OSHA regulations: Spinal, brain stem injuries: Verdict
• Statute of limitations for federal suit tolls upon filing of state claim if both suits involve same wrong
• Storage container company lures another away from potential purchaser: Tortious interference with contract: Verdict
• COUNSEL WORKS TO HOLD FRATERNITIES ACCOUNTABLE FOLLOWING HAZING DEATH
  by Friedman, Linda
• PRODUCTS LIABILITY
• MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE
• Car turns in front of oncoming vehicle: Negligent left turn: Failure to yield: Back injuries: Settlement
• Firm that permissively withdrew without reasonable justification is not entitled to fees in quantum meruit
• PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
• Employee's winning lottery ticket misappropriated: Fraud: Conversion: Emotional distress: Verdict
• ADEA does not protect relatively young workers from reverse discrimination favoring older workers
• Woman struck by bus: Failure to keep proper lookout: Knee, shoulder injuries: Degloving injury: Lymphodema: Settlement
• Child falls from walkway: Missing guardrail: Skull fractures: Settlement
• Plaintiff suing police should be allowed to question potential jurors about law enforcement bias
• Woman pricked by needle used on AIDS patient may pursue emotional distress claim past six-month incubation period
• Enterprise goodwill of business is marital property, but personal goodwill is individual property
• Same-sex couples are constitutionally entitled to marry in Massachusetts
• National laboratory pays female employees less than male counterparts: Violation of state statutes: Settlement