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Mississippi Landowners Protection Act
Mississippi Senate Bill 2901, incorporating the “Landowners Protection Act” was signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant on March 29, 2019, and will be effective July 1, 2019. The Landowners Protection Act addresses the liability of landowners in Mississippi for the intentional torts of third parties on the landowners’ premises. Prior to the change in… Read More
How a Jury Asked for a Million Dollars Came to Award $2,500
By Katheryn Tucker. James Merritt put on a seersucker suit and bow tie for the trial in Glynn County Superior Court. His friends said he looked like Ben Matlock. A man hurt in a car accident asked a Brunswick jury for a million dollars in damages. The other side said maybe $20,000 would be fair…. Read More
Supreme Court Limits Employers’ Defense on Job Bias Claims
Prepared by Karen Nissen, Esq. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 3, 2019 which impacts the landscape of defending Title VII employment discrimination cases. In the case of Fort Bend County v. Davis, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 3891 the Supreme Court issued a ruling regarding the requirement in Title VII that employees must… Read More
Florida Supreme Court adopts Daubert
On May 23, 2019 the Supreme Court of Florida reversed itself and adopted the Daubert standard for determining the admissibility of expert testimony. In case no. SC19-107, In re: Amendments to the Florida Evidence Code, the court reversed its decisions in In re Amendments to Florida Evidence Code, 210 So. 3d 1231, 1239 (Fla. 2017)… Read More