1475 phy, most likely due to contamination of the contrast medium or spinal needle used for the myelography. The plaintiff’s expert asserted that the fault lay with the radiologist or technologists under his supervision at the time. The expert witness retained by the defense, in his deposition, disagreed that the defendant–radiologist was responsible for the complication that arose from the mye...

Virginia v. Sebelius is a federal lawsuit in which Virginia has challenged President Obama's signature legislative initiative of health care reform. Virginia has sought declaratory and injunctive relief to vindicate a state statute declaring that no Virginia resident shall be required to buy health insurance. To defend this state law from the preemptive effect of federal law, Virginia has conte...

Deviation from an acceptable standard of care is one of the central issues in a lawyer’s mind in any malpractice lawsuit. However, the trigger for a lawsuit is the occurrence of a compli‐ cation. That is, intense scrutiny of a doctor’ practice usually only occurs once harm has occurred to a patient. Thus avoiding complications is the maxim to follow. Understanding the situations in which compli...

In 2021, the case of West Virginia and other state governments against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought Clean Air Act's carbon emissions regulations back into public eye. The Supreme Court's decision in this lawsuit will have far-reaching implications for Act EPA, so outcome is being awaited. Therefore, study focuses on background lawsuit, a description law involved, an assess...

This study examines how lawsuits against auditors affect the audit pricing and client acceptance strategies of both the audit offices responsible for the failed audit and other audit offices of the same audit firm. We find that non-litigation offices of litigation audit firms decrease their fees following the filing of a lawsuit. However, audit offices involved in litigation increase their audi...

In late 2020, the US government initiated legal suits against two Big Tech firms. October, Department of Justice (DoJ) and 11 State Attorneys General filed a lawsuit Google for ‘v...

In 1998 during a flight from Athens (Greece) to San Francisco (CA, USA), A.M. Hanson, an asthmatic doctor aged 52 yrs, died due to an asthmatic reaction to second-hand cigarette smoke. In 2004, the US Supreme Court ruled that Olympic Airways was to pay the widow of A.M. Hanson US$1.4 million. This successful lawsuit by a passenger against an airline over smoking was unprecedented, and smoking o...

Thomson [4], et al. v. Thompson, et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 May 2001 as Civil Action Number 01-CV-0973. This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. The plaintiffs in the case were seven prominent scientists who performed embryonic stem cell re...