Law and Daily Life

On March 21, 2016, a group of parents filed a lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories Inc., and AbbVie Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The…

General Motors has decided to settle out of court with the family of a man who was killed in a car accident. The family had blamed a faulty ignition switch…

Think that cutting down a cactus in Arizona is probably like cutting down a tree anywhere else? Think again. If you cut one down without permission, you could go to…

Albert Einstein married his cousin, Elsa Lowenthal, and we can probably all agree that he was a pretty smart fellow. So why is marrying a first cousin frowned upon in…

You were ordered to pay restitution at your sentencing hearing and you haven’t done it, so you’re scared you will go to jail. And you may, although there is a…

When a jury considers the charges in a criminal case, the jury is told that it should find the defendant “not guilty” unless guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt.…