Phil Law Weblog

The city has finally decided to settle the lawsuit against NOPD officers in drug planting lawsuit.In a shameful incident of its kind, at least three New Orleans police detectives were found involved in a drug racket. They were found to have planted the drugs — and uprooted the lives of innocent people.The accused are Steven [...]

A multi-million dollar lawsuit against Clifford Hall is finally solved. The lawsuit that charges him of steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of its equipment. This former employee of Freedom Medical in West Chester and several other employees have also rent the equipment to various entities as part of their own companies, court documents [...]

World’s leading videogame publisher, Electronic Arts, is being sued by videogame fans for the way it has handled the digital rights-management software built into its new game, Spore.

Syracuse University decides to move to the court against the O’Connor in a personal injury lawsuit. The University is set for a pre-trial conference today and will begin trial at the end of October in the Albany Civil Supreme Court.

The lawsuit between the The University of Michigan and the operator of its Survival Flight aircraft, Marlin Air, Inc. The lawsuit was filed by the Belleville-based Marlin Air, Inc.after the UM has terminated its contract with the company.

Medtronic Inc has decided to go for a settlement in the lawsuit filed against the company in 2006 for allegedly paying parks to the doctors. The Wall Street Journal reported the settlement money to be around $40 million.

Four police officer have been suspected in the strip-search lawsuit filed by the 13 club patrons against the city. Details of the settlement have not been released, and City Attorney Michael Bernard said he couldn’t discuss it because it is pending.However, it is expected to be finalized in about two weeks.

In a settlement case between Mesa detective and the family of James Deon Lennox, the court has awarded $2 million to the family of the dead person, Lennox.

In an settlement case between three women (including one from Chicago) and Roman Catholic nun the court has awarded the sisters an amount of $400,000 for the damages that they has faced from the nun during their childhood.

Harris Stratex Networks Inc.faces a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The lawsuit charges the company and some of its officers and directors of violating the securities law.