Laura Dooley has posted an article titled National Juries for National Cases: Preserving Citizen Participation in Large Scale Litigation suggesting that we can save juries and deal with the problem of complex litigation at the same time by impaneling national juries.
Defendants would love national juries because it would help in jurisdiction with bad venues. But I'm sure folks in Kansas are going to love to come to Maryland to be part of a jury.
Former Palm Springs, California mayor Ron Oden lost what sounds like a minor soft tissue injury auto accident case yesterday. The rear end car accident at issue occurred three years ago when then Mayor Oden was rear-ended in a taxi insured by Mercury Insurance Group.
Plaintiff's injury lawyer was apparently surprised when the insurance company brought in a doctor to testify which is, of course, a completely bizarre thing to be surprised by in a trial with an insurance company. Plaintiff's lawyer said, ""What they (the defense) did was brought out an A-bomb to swat a fly."
Okay. That's true. But are you really surprised an insurance company would overdefend a personal injury jury trial? This is worse than the frog's surprise when the scorpion bit him.
Casey Aldridge, the father of Jamie Lynn Spears's infant daughter, was injured in a car accident early Sunday morning. No one has offered any information on how the car accident occured. Mr. Aldridge hospitalized at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, according to sources. There are mixed reports on the extent and the scope of the injuries. One report was that Mr. Aldridge had a "cracked skull" but his injuries are not as serious as originally believed.
It is easy to get annoyed at reading the news of celebrity (okay, not really) car accidents. But the reality is people feel close to people the read about in People magazine so hopefully Mr. Aldridge is okay but it serves as a reminder to everyone to drive a little safer.
