An appeals court has reversed a decision in a stranger-owned life insurance (STOLI) policy case after it found a lower court had failed to apply Minnesota common law in the dispute over a $5 million ...

Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. reports that the U.S. legal system, influenced by English common law, shares key principles ...

In yet another recent case involving the intersection of CERCLA and state law, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington held that CERCLA legislatively displaced federal ...

Whether a prior conviction for a “reckless” domestic assault qualifies as a federal “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” is, for defendants in the thirty-four states that have reckless assault ...

The state’s “stand your ground” law is currently being assessed in light of the shooting of a 32-year-old house cleaner who ...

While there are several interesting environmental cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, two cases are particularly relevant for any legal practitioner handling Superfund cases, whether they ...

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.... Toward the end of the Constitutional Convention, Hugh Williamson ...