Lawsuit

teachers of Indiana’s Teacher Protection Act, passed by the Indiana General Assembly in 2009. Teachers now are shielded from frivolous lawsuits filed over school discipline complaints. In other words, if a teacher is sued for disciplining a student — and if the teacher’s actions were reasonable under the school policy — then the teacher has legal immunity from the lawsuit. The Indiana Attorney…

Litigation is defined as a lawsuit. Hence, criminal litigation (or lawsuit/action) means taking legal action against a criminal claim or prosecuting a criminal case. Civil litigation means taking legal action against a non-criminal case, most likely to reimburse wrong doing by the means of money. Civil actions include products liability actions, personal injury suits, probate actions, environmental law, education law, and domestic relations. Most cases in the country are variations of civil…

Torts are recognized as civil and criminal wrongdoings by law and grounds for a lawsuit. The injured party who suffered damages may attempt to recover costs from pain and suffering, medical expenses, and personal earnings. In tort law there are four elements in order to claim damages. These elements are duty, breach of duty, causation, and damages. The three main types of torts are negligence, strict liability, and intentional torts. In this paper we will discuss torts of negligence. When going…

to him at the time of the sale it constitutes Fraudulent Nondisclosure. In the case that he can’t prove that Stamp Champ knew about this fact, he can try to win the lawsuit for Negligence. A victim of Fraud is entitled to recover the amount of money that he or she lost, any legal fees that had to be pay during the course of the lawsuit, and in some cases…

more than 8 million dogs in the past 3 weeks. The company claimed the product allowed dogs to live forever. Instead the product has produced cancer in almost all of the dogs that have been inject with this product. The company is facing multiple lawsuits on top of complete shutdown by the federal government. CEO, Christopher Holland says “this was never the intention.” The Forever Fido injection works by altering the gene that controls aging. Doing this means the dog will never stop…

management strategy when responding to the 2011 ‘meat-less’ class action lawsuit from the Beasley Allen Law Firm than I expected. As a result, from the onset of the crisis and Taco Bell’s subsequent response, pundits offered unexpectedly divergent assessments of Taco Bell’s bold strategy. To start, several pundits vigorously disagreed with Taco Bell’s crisis management communication strategy of thanking the plaintiffs for filing the lawsuit and allowing the organization to tell its story to…

provide a penalty of tremble damages in addition to 10,000 dollars per false claim against the defendant. The “whistle-blower,” now given the more pleasant term of “relator” may now collect between 15 and 30 percent of the recovery in these “qui tam” lawsuits. The recovery reward provides a great incentive for whistle blowers to act and maintain reliability within the federal contact industry. The filing process for the relator in qui tam cases is relatively…

compete with it. For Apple, they need a trial to protect their position, and Samsung needs an opportunity to prove themselves. So, it is no wonder that they will engage in patent wars to maintain their own patent. For this, they probably will have a lawsuit. Nevertheless, there…

yourself in a personal injury lawsuit and you need to get some form of compensation There are definitely a few different ways that a personal injury lawyer will be able to help you. We are going to look over all of the various options available to your personal injury lawyer so he or she will be able to take care of you the right way. Let’s do that exactly, and I think we should get…

Four Reasons Why the Death of an Elderly Person Can Create a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Often when people think of a wrongful death lawsuit they picture in their mind an auto accident or a defective consumer product, but one area that can result in wrongful death is with the elderly. The most common places that this will happen is in a hospital or retirement home. The following are four reasons why an elderly person can die wrongfully. They are given the wrong medication This can take place in…