The celebrity gossip site Gawker shut down publication this month, ending a 13-year reign as a pioneer in online news and a lightning rod for controversy over journalistic ethics, privacy, and free speech. However, the site’s death knell sounded five months earlier, when Kenneth Turkel delivered a closing argument that would lead to a hammer blow of a verdict against the site’s parent company. Gawker Media. Bollea v. Gawker Media LLC, 2012CA01244.
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Topics: Hogan v. Gawker Media
Canton, MA—At the urging of a Probate and Family Court judge, parties battling over the future of Sumner Redstone's $40 billion media empire took a break from a Friday pre-trial hearing and returned announcing they’d made strides toward a deal that could ultimately resolve the tangle of disputes between them. Dauman v. Redstone, 16-E0020.
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Topics: Dauman v. Redstone, Massachusetts
|BREAKING NEWS| PricewaterhouseCoopers Settles $5.5B Accounting Negligence Suit by Taylor Bean Trust
Miami—PricewaterhouseCoopers settled a $5.5 billion accounting negligence case against it, midway through a Florida state court trial over the accounting giant’s alleged responsibility for failing to detect widespread fraud that led to the collapse of one of the nation’s largest home mortgage lenders. Taylor Bean & Whitaker Plan Trust v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2013-033964-CA-01.
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Topics: Negligence, Florida, Malpractice, Accounting, Taylor Bean Plan Trust v. PricewaterhouseCoopers
West Palm Beach, FL—Attorneys battled Wednesday over whether the statute of limitations bars a former smoker's suit against R.J. Reynolds for the respiratory disease that renders him dependent on an oxygen tank, as trial opened in the case. Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds, 2014-CA-010849.
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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Hackimer v. R.J. Reynolds
