Slip and Fall Suit Slides Forward Against Walmart, Judge Decides
"In short, a reasonable person in Bryant's position might have overlooked it. Courts have routinely denied summary judgment and found a genuine issue of fact as to whether a condition was open and obvious where the plaintiff failed to notice a condition prior to slipping or tripping under facts like this case," said U.S. District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins.
Janssen Biotech Ordered to Turn Over Privileged Info Shared With Consultants, Judge Rules
U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts ordered Janssen Biotech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which manufactures and sells Remicade and Simponi ARIA, to produce related to the litigation, where it is accused of unlawfully providing free services to physicians who prescribed its medications.
Judge Nixes Visa Gift Card Suit, Says No One 'Reasonable' Would Believe Cards Were Scam-Proof
A New Yorker represented by Wolf Popper had argued that he had bought Visa Vanilla gift cards, believing that the payments giant had taken measures to protect its cards from widespread card draining scams. But U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods for the Southern District of New York dismissed the case, unconvinced that Visa had sold or marketed the cards to trick consumers into believing they were safe from scammers.
Zillow Real Estate Listing Policy Faces Antitrust Challenge Alleging Market-Wide Harm
"Zillow has willfully maintained and abused its monopoly power in the residential real estate online search services market by adopting the anticompetitive and exclusionary policy that is the Zillow Ban and thus violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act," counsel for Compass Inc. alleged in the complaint.