On February 9, 2007, DRI member Jerry Fazio of Owen & Fazio, P.C. in Dallas, Texas, won a case at the Texas Supreme Court on behalf of his client, Jack in the Box, Inc. The court held that an employer in Texas that does not have workers' compensation has no duty to warn an employee of an obvious danger or one which is of "common knowledge.” The Texas Supreme Court reversed the Dallas Court of Appeals and affirmed the trial court's granting of summary judgment. (Jack In The Box, Inc. vs. Skiles, No.05-0911)
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a federal district court ruling in favor of Lil’ Joe Records Inc. in a copyright infringement case brought by Jeffrey Thompkins, a.k.a. rapper JT Money. Thompkins had sued Lil’ Joe Records, claiming that it did not legally hold the copyrights to songs made by his group, Poison Clan. “The trial and appellate courts both understood that the copyrights at issue here had properly been conveyed to our client,” said attorney David H. Levitt of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Chicago, which represented Lil’ Joe Records.
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Patrick A. Lanius of Lanius & Associates in El Dorado Hills, California, secured two medical malpractice defense victories recently. In the case of Sander vs. Carolyn Collins, M.D. and Cancer Care Consultants of Northern California, the plaintiffs contended that Carolyn Collins, M.D. breached the standard of care for medical oncologists in her assessment of Mr. Sander on November 29, 2004. Mr. Sander had been diagnosed with recurrent testicular cancer and had commenced chemotherapy treatment on October 18, 2004. He was set to undergo three cycles of chemotherapy involving the administration of VP16, Cisplatin and Bleomycin through a central venous catheter (CVC) previously threaded through his right internal jugular (IJ) and subclavian (SC) veins.
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The Louisiana Supreme Court has reinstated a jury verdict in favor of Mitsubishi after two years of appeals. Mitsubishi was represented at trial and on appeal by Keith W. McDaniel and Lance B. Williams of McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo, Hardy, Maxwell & McDaniel PC in Covington, Louisiana.
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Keep those defense wins coming! Send a short summary and recent photo of yourself to Barb Lowery via e-mail (blowery@dri.org) or fax (312.795.0747).
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