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Summary Military children don't exist in a vacuum; rather, they are embedded in and deeply influenced by their families, neighborhoods, schools, the military itself, and many other interacting systems. To [...]

E-mail. It's what's for breakfast--and dinner. It may be the first thing you tackle during the day and the last thing you do at night. Today, most attorneys rely on [...]

After Hurricane Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast, Regina Valenti, the senior paralegal for former AAJ president Russ Herman, swung into action. The firm's New Orleans office had been left with [...]

After watching Tom Cruise get his retinas scanned as he maneuvers through security facilities in the 2002 thriller Minority Report, you laugh about the Jet sonian technology on your way [...]

Nostalgia may sustain the idea of a friendly neighborhood druggist preparing a personal bottle of cough syrup for Mrs. Smith when she requires it--but through rose-colored glasses is no way [...]

Millions of U.S. teens have embraced a new craze--"social networking" on Web sites, where they can sign up and read blogs and messages, see photos and videos, and have virtual [...]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled 4-2 that a boy who suffered brain injuries after ingesting lead paint as a toddler can sue paint manufacturers even though he doesn't know [...]

It's an age-old sight gag, a surefire boffo joke: At the circus, a clown rides into the ring on a tricycle, hunkered over the tiny handlebars, knees hunched up around [...]

Open your office door, drop the briefcase on a chair, power up the computer, park the Starbucks cup near at hand, and flip through the news gathered on a Findlaw [...]

"I'm on the patch," say cigarette smokers every January, when the inevitable New Year's resolutions roll around. Wearing a patch that transmits nicotine through the skin to ease a smoker's [...]

About 40 million Americans have tattoos because they like the look, but this decorative feature may have some unattractive consequences. The ink used in dermal implantation exposes consumers to potentially [...]

Hockey star Jaromir Jagr--who won fame playing forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and New York Rangers--has become the celebrity face of a different game: Internet gambling. Jagr, the [...]

It's been a Spyv. Spyworld since 1961, when Mad Magazine introduced the white- and black-clad agents whose nefarious tricks escalated as they ceaselessly tried to do each other in. In [...]

Asbestos bankruptcies Asbestos lawsuits have driven many manufacturers into bankruptcy, causing businesses to close and jobs to be lost. Asbestos companies in financial trouble? Some of the largest ones facing [...]

It's no myth that doctor's malpractice insurance rates have skyrocketed in the last few years. While tort "reformers" point the finger at the high costs of medical negligence lawsuits to [...]

A steady diet of spam does nothing but increase your blood pressure and weigh down your office computer system. Stopping--or slowing--the influx of unwanted commercial e-mail has been attempted through [...]

The current fight over tort law is not the first--but a new book may register the strongest resonance yet with lawyers, potential jurors, and policy-makers on both sides of the [...]

"Signed, sealed, delivered--on line," you might hum, doing your best Stevie Wonder impression, as you paste a scanned picture of your signature into an e-mail and hit the "send" button. [...]

You bought a computer to keep up with the practice of law, but you've become set in your ways, doing the same things you learned on the first day of [...]

Once the darling of the "in" crowd, ephedra is now the product that no one wants to sit next to on the school bus. The government has taken up arms [...]

Pharmacia Corp. (recently acquired by Pfizer, Inc.) makes what was the 10th most frequently prescribed drug in the United States last year. It touts Celebrex as "a major advance in [...]

When you tell people what you do, do you tell them to go see A Civil Action? Do you sometimes wish you could emulate Katherine Hepburn in Adam's Rib and [...]

Caution signs may need to be posted where the information superhighway intersects with the halls of justice. While judges carry BlackBerrys and lawyers "Twitter" with colleagues and consultants, jurors have [...]

An epidemic of Type 2 diabetes is putting more people at risk of the disease's complications--heart attacks and damage to other organs among them. But in an ironic twist, the [...]

The Supreme Court launched its October 2008 term with oral arguments in Altria v. Good, reviewing whether the federal cigarette labeling act should preempt a case arguing that a tobacco [...]

This fall brings a showdown, pitting the doctors and the lawyers against the feds and Big Pharma in the preemption corral. Both sides are fully armed with amicus briefs for [...]

Whether teenagers have the right to post derogatory comments about their schools online is a contested issue, and two recent decisions--one by a state supreme court and the other by [...]

This year's heparin recalls, as well as Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigations of medical device manufacturers, have shown that the FDA has some serious oversight problems with foreign manufacturers. The [...]

To keep their bottom lines growing, health insurance companies are testing a variety of new tactics to deny claims and benefits, consumer advocates say, including rescinding policies after claims are [...]

The Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2007 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in March, meaning that 14 years after the first version of the bill was introduced, the light is [...]

Clarifying its own "mixed case law" on the question, the Fifth Circuit has held that a jury's award of punitive damages in a Title VII case can stand even without [...]

Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that awards for nonphysical damages could not be taxed. In July, it changed its mind. The [...]

A product with a unique formula and a specific use whose maker kept it on the market while user reports of injury mounted--it's an old story. But Bausch & Lomb [...]

Lenders charge minority borrowers higher mortgage rates than white borrowers, even when risk factors are the same, according to studies of the latest data collected under the 1975 Home Mortgage [...]

Cookware coated in Teflon probably resides in your kitchen, as it does in the homes of most Americans. But Teflon's manufacturer, DuPont, while touting the health benefits and convenience of [...]

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a plaintiff who must undergo a court-ordered medical examination in the course of litigation can sue the doctor who performs it for malpractice [...]

In a case of first impression for the state, the Colorado Supreme Court has held that attorneys are subject to liability for deceptive advertising under the state's consumer protection act, [...]

In the first suit of its kind since the military privatized base housing, a group of military families with disabled members has settled with the private contractor that operated housing [...]

The Tenth Circuit has reinstated the sex discrimination claims of two female Albuquerque police officers who were forced to use sick time for leave they took under the Family and [...]

"In four phases of drafting three significant clean air rules between fiscal years 2000 and 2004, EPA generally devoted little attention to environmental justice," concluded a recent Government Accountability Office [...]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) crash-testing program is out of date and its reporting process is too slow, according to a recent report of the Government Accountability Office [...]

A divided Third Circuit panel has ruled 2-1 that the survivor of a patient injured by an FDA-approved medical device cannot sue the manufacturer under Pennsylvania law. (Horn v. Thoratec [...]

A worker in a factory that produces microwave popcorn has received a large compensatory damages award from a Missouri county court for being exposed to flavoring vapors that harmed his [...]

Forget monsters in the closet. In mattresses, under carpet and floorboards, and behind pictures and wallpaper lurk the bedbugs of nursery-rhyme fame. The bloodsucking pests, which resemble apple seeds and [...]

The West Virginia Supreme Court has reversed a circuit court's ruling that allowed a hospital to refuse to hire a male nurse to work in obstetrics. The lower court had [...]

In 1994, a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted. Police obtained a semen sample but were unable to match it. In October 2000, three days before the six-year [...]

Nursing home residents who sued the city and county of San Francisco for not providing community-based long-term-care services received support from a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation that concluded [...]

What did manufacturer Bayer Corp. know about the dangers of the cholesterol-lowering drug it pulled from the market in 2001--and when did it know it? That's what lawyers are gearing [...]

A doctor employed by the New York Times who refused to divulge employees' medical records without their consent does not meet a 1992 exception to the state's at-will employment doctrine [...]

In Sprietsma v. Mercury Marine, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a federal law requiring national safety standards for recreational boats does not preempt common law tort claims arising [...]