The Business Dispute Law Blog by Bill Garrison

The last potential perk of "supersizing" yourself, a lawsuit blaming your failed health on the Jack in the Box drive-thru, may be nearing its end.  The "Cheeseburger Bill" seeks to eliminate lawsuits alleging harm based upon the fast food industry’s selling of, well, fast food.  The bill has passed the House and is being considered by the Senate.

According to Insurance Scawl, a blog focusing “on the law of insurance, the insurance of business, and the business of insurance,” businesses located outside the Gulf Coast may still be able to file insurance claims for losses caused by Hurricane Katrina:
An increasingly common add-on to coverage in recent years has been "contingent" business-interruption coverage (or [...]

One of our friends at Weblogs Work, Brian Oberkirch, was featured in the Washington Post recently for his efforts to connect people through the Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog and provide neighborhood-specific information:
I was able to get to my apt at the Anchorage Sat 09/03/05," said one message posted yesterday. "Came in thru Eden Isles off [...]

The United States has accused the European Union of illegally subsidizing Airbus, an aircraft manufacturer. In response, the E.U. says it’s prepared to sue Boeing for benefiting from illegal subsidies. Both cases would go to the World Trade Organization.
The two sides have operated since 1992 under an agreement allowing Airbus to receive a certain amount [...]

Recently, during the course of a lengthy jury trial in Austin, my California co-counsel and I discussed what each of us considered to be the most important elements of successful litigation.  We both agreed that successful litigation — or at least efficient successful litigation — is all about knowledge management, i.e., "accessing, evaluating, managing, organizing, filtering, and distributing [knowledge regarding the facts [...]