Washington, D.C.: Kristin M. Lausten of Lausten & Co. represented Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, the wife of former Trump advisor George Papadopoulos, in a private hearing of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Monday, March 11, 2019 as they continued...
Normally, we focus on Louisiana cases, but, occasionally, cases from our sister states are noteworthy. One such case was recently decided by the California Supreme Court when the court held that negligent hiring can be an "accident" -- or an...
In an interesting case from St. Bernard Parish, the court held that negligence law applied to damage to oyster beds, not maritime law. See Cibilic v. Cox Operating, LLC, Case No. 2017-CA-0813 (La. App. 4th Cir. June 6, 2018). In...
Toxic tort cases are, at their core, a subset of negligence and product liability cases. As such, the standard elements of negligence and product liability must be proven. These include duty, breach, causation, and injury. Additionally, the causation must flow...
In Louisiana, there are two types of servitudes: personal servitudes and predial servitudes. See La. C.C. art. 533-34 and 639-40. Personal servitudes confer upon a person a specified use of an estate less than full enjoyment. Consider the now infamous...
Are you tired of paying exorbitant legal fees because a junior associate is required to bill 180-200 hours a month, so they inflate time entries just to make a quota and keep a job? Maybe you’ve grown tired of paying...
Complexity and high risk are the defining aspects of cases based on claims related to naturally occurring radioactive materials ("NORM") or technologically enhanced NORM ("TENORM")[1]. Here in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana, NORM and TENORM litigation most often involves...
The courts are -- finally -- beginning to acknowledge the proposition that a vast wealth of information is available to plaintiffs on the internet via simple and quick web-based search inquiries. Frankly, it should be more difficult for a plaintiff...
Recently, another federal circuit adopted the "broad view" of federal issue class certification under Rule 23(c)(3) and (c)(4). This leaves only the Fifth Circuit (Louisiana, Mississippi & Texas) and the Eleventh Circuit (Alabama, Florida & Georgia) as courts holding to...
Insurance policies are contracts. As such, contract law doctrines apply to insurance policies, including the doctrine of waiver. Here in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana, waiver can apply to policy provisions and with respect to rights, privileges, and protections...