Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 308: Listen and Learn -- Crimes Against the Person (Part 2)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 307: Listen and Learn -- Crimes Against the Person (Part 1)
Coverage Issues Arising Out of Assault and Battery Claims
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 288: Listen and Learn -- Assault and Battery (Torts)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 103: Listen and Learn –- Assault and Battery
Compliance Perspectives: Healthcare Compliance at the Border
The Texas Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision against a franchisor based on a theory of negligence after a customer was assaulted by an employee of the franchisee. The court concluded that franchisor did not owe a...more
On May 22, 2025, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1386 into law, reclassifying criminal penalties for assault and battery against utility workers while they are engaged in critical infrastructure work. The law...more
In October 2023, a five-year-old girl (Roe) in the Red Lion Area School District (District) was reportedly physically and sexually assaulted by a male student while riding a school bus. After this incident, no measures were...more
The Fourth Circuit on Friday seemed poised to unravel a federal court’s injunction allowing two NASCAR teams, including one co-owned by NBA legend Michael Jordan, to continue racing as chartered teams while they pursue...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! We're continuing the discussion from last week on crimes against the person. In the previous episode, we covered the basic elements of assault, battery, false imprisonment, and...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're discussing four crimes against the person – assault, battery, false imprisonment, and kidnapping. We'll walk through the elements of each crime and see an example...more
The line between lawful parental discipline and criminal conduct can be a legal tightrope—especially when the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P) is involved. The recent Appellate Division decision in State v....more
A federal court in North Dakota recently denied a motion to dismiss vicarious liability claims against the corporate entities constituting the Subway franchise system. C.S. v. Subway Worldwide, Inc., 2025 WL 472475 (D.N.D....more
In this third installment in our Aviation Symposium series of blog posts, we present the materials from the panel on Flight Attendants and Customer Service Agents: Risks and Liabilities. Our guest panelists included several...more
A commercial affiliate of the Major League Baseball Players Association settled a lawsuit with FanDuel on Friday over the alleged unauthorized use of the names and images of MLB players on its sports betting platform....more
A woman in Texas filed a new lawsuit last Monday accusing Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and battery in 2020....more
Political pressure increasing on social media companies to police their platforms - Over the course of a week in August, the UK experienced widespread civil unrest with crimes such as rioting, vandalism, looting and...more
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted a limited appeal in Pittsburgh’s challenge to a Pennsylvania court ruling that the city’s tax on visiting athletes and performers is unconstitutional. ...more
Three employees of two separate New Jersey long-term care facilities were indicted this past month, highlighting grave concerns over resident safety and care standards in such facilities throughout the state....more
In August 2018 seven year old Kayden Mancuso left her home in suburban Bucks County to visit her dad at his home in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. Two years earlier Kayden’s mother had secured a Protection from Abuse...more
The New York Court of Appeals issued a decision last week, clarifying the rebuttable presumption of WCL § 21(1) in work assault cases, particularly in a mass shooting scenario. When an injury happens during work, it is...more
The parents of a Gainesville, Georgia high school baseball player who died after he was hit in the head at baseball practice have filed a lawsuit against the school system and his coaches....more
On May 7, 2024 the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued thirty-three published opinions There’s a lot to chew on here. Here’s my summary of a few of the more interesting or unusual cases. Warren v. Cielo...more
We promised not to turn this into a gun blog but in a country where half of all families own guns and the half that do own a lot of them, the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol...more
Ohio presents unique challenges to practitioners handling insurance claims in the state. Join Goldberg Segalla partners Michael A. Hamilton and Sean P. Hvisdas as they host a live, interactive webinar on some of the most...more
This party started in a public bar in Silt, CO in early January. When we wrote about it on January 9, it was looking like the Congresswoman was the perp and her ex husband the victim of the mele. But almost immediately...more
Most readers of this blog rarely, if ever, become involved in homicide cases. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s essentially unanimous decision in McElrath v. Georgia should be of interest because it deals with the issue of...more
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed bipartisan bills that were proposed to address significant patterns of violence against Michigan’s health care professionals and medical volunteers. Roughly half of emergency room...more
What happens when a victim of domestic violence suffers a predicate act in a State outside of New Jersey and then seeks an order of protection in New Jersey? The general answer is… the victim is entitled to the full...more
Examining the Applicability of Liability Policy Exclusions to Shooting Incident-Related Claims - Shootings, both on an individual and large-scale level, have become a growing reality in the United States in recent years. In...more