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A Michigan state appeals panel has ruled that the doctrine preventing matters from being repeatedly litigated in separate cases can also be wielded within a single matter, issuing a decision that wiped out certain pretrial challenges in a referral fee fight stemming from a $10 million jury verdict.
North Carolina pushed the state's high court to reverse a business court judge's decision that a contractor deserves tax breaks on equipment purchases meant for manufacturers, arguing that the contractor is not actually a manufacturer and primarily uses the asphalt product it makes for its contracting work.
An Ohio federal judge gave a lobbyist who pled guilty to wire fraud six months in prison following a Sixth Circuit reversal of his previous order, which had laid out a no-jail sentence that the appellate court said might have been influenced by the judge's personal relationship with the defendant.
A bladder cancer patient hit an Ohio health network with a negligence suit claiming one of its registered nurses gave him tuberculosis and worsened his bladder cancer by incorrectly inserting a catheter and not addressing it when he was "actively bleeding."
An Ohio state appeals court declined to throw out a lawyer's wrongful termination suit against a government office she used to serve as general counsel for, but did rule that the lower court should have sealed her amended complaint for including details covered by attorney-client privilege.