In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court decertified the class action of smokers against the tobacco industry, ruling that cases could be tried individually but laying down certain rules by which those cases would be tried. Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 S0. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006). Decertification can happen when the Court determines that the […]
Travel Day to Houston for medical investigation with expert witnesses.
When I started this blog a couple of years ago, I wrote a series of posts that I called “What Is A Jury Trial?”. You can find the whole series here: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven. Long after writing these posts, I made a video talking about jury trials. You can find that video on our website page “‘About the Firm” and […]
Lawyers are taught to be circumspect and cautious representing facts. I’m not going to do that here. Because I know better. So with apologies to old-timey practitioners, here is my reading of the Florida Supreme Court’s latest ruling saving consumers from the unrelenting pummeling of the healthcare delivery and insurance markets and their omnipresent and […]
Two weeks ago, I ended a series of posts about the role of Senses in litigation (Taste, Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing). About the time that I ended those, I ran across something even better. A real scientific explanation of what I was getting at – published in the Journal of Consumer Research. Here it is. So Close I Can […]
