Civil Justice Law Blog

What does the Supreme Court’s recent decision in AT&T v. Concepcion mean for consumers and consumer rights? We explored that question in a blog post shortly after the decision was announced, but we’ve since read some additional excellent commentary on the matter. Here’s our suggested reading – 10 of the best blog posts we’ve read on the case in the past couple of weeks.

1. Supreme Court Nukes Consumers’ Rights in Most Pro-Corporate Decision Since Citizens United– Ian Millhiser,...

Morelli Ratner is preparing to go to trial in federal court in the Southern District of Illinois, in a particularly egregious case involving sexual harassment, assault and battery, retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence. Last week, in Alford v. Aaron Rents Inc., the federal judge on the case denied the defense’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that the case presents triable issues of fact, to be decided on by a jury.

The case represents a nightmare scenario for any employee. The employee in this case was repeatedly harassed and led to believe that her continued employment required submitting to the unwanted sexual advances of her superior. She was also sexually assaulted on...

On Monday night at the Greene Space in lower Manhattan, WNYC hosted a panel on NYPD’s stop and frisk policy, and the contentious divide between law enforcement and local minority communities on the policy’s use. While the Mayor and police high-ups have touted the policy as an important tool in preventing crime, many minorities in New York City – first and foremost, young African-American men – experience the stops as arbitrary, harassing, humiliating, and abusive.

A stop based on reasonable suspicion is of course legal, but there’s compelling statistical evidence that the majority of stops and frisks currently conducted by the NYPD are not being done legally. In the vast majority of stops and frisks...

Pharmaceutical companies charge American customers infamously outlandish amounts to use prescription drugs, particularly in the initial period in which new brand-name drugs are protected from generic drug-making competitors. While the role of big pharmaceutical corporations in gouging the public is well-known and well-documented, less frequently discussed is the role universities play in the creation of prescription drug monopolies. In Thomas Geoghegan’s ground-breaking 2007 book, See You In Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation, Geoghegan takes on that sticky topic.

Geoghegan writes:

Consider this…A university receives a tax exemption, in part so it can do...