A Colorado appellate division ruled that the state constitution does not guarantee a right to shelter on public property, affirming Boulder’s ban on camping and tents because the protections against cruel and unusual punishment mirror...
Feet Forward v. City of Boulder
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that trial courts must interpret utility settlement agreements de novo to determine if they are ambiguous before deferring to a regulatory agency’s interpretation, reversing a lower court that had...
Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in a dispute over a motor vehicle deficiency balance, holding that claims under the Uniform Commercial Code and state consumer finance law are not subject...
Mutual Security Credit Union v. Hardy
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment in favor of Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union, holding that the one-year statute of limitations for penal statutes does not apply to damages claims under Article 9...
Lumpkin v. Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment ruling in Connex Credit Union v. Madgic, holding that the three-year statute of limitations for tort actions, rather than the one-year period for penal...
Connex Credit Union v. Madgic
A federal judge in Washington held that a paraplegic woman's claim that her 2023 Volkswagen Tiguan's seat heater was defectively designed may go to trial, while dismissing her failure-to-warn claim and partially excluding her expert's...
EMILY LAPRADE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. VOLKSWAGEN AG, et al. Defendants.
The Connecticut Supreme Court held that an employer's workers' compensation lien under General Statutes § 31-293 (a) extends to tort settlement proceeds attributable to a deceased worker's nonoccupational asbestos exposure, not just the...
Dodge v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles