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Lex Machina Releases End-of-Year Litigation Trends Update

- January 31, 2018

I’m pleased to say that Legal Analytics provider Lex Machina announced the release its end of year quarterly litigation trends update. The update includes Q42017 trends in the areas of Patent, Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB), Copyright, Trademark, Securities, Antitrust, Commercial, Employment, Bankruptcy Appeals, and Product Liability litigation. This is a valuable source of information for any litigator. That announcement, and excerpts from the report, are reproduced below, courtesy of the company.

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Family of ‘The Walking Dead’ Stuntman Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against AMC Networks, Inc.

- January 31, 2018

Most people are familiar with ‘The Walking Dead’ t.v. Show, but few are aware that many of the stunts on the show are performed by stuntmen and women, and fewer realize that sometimes those stuntmen and women get injured. Tragically, accidental deaths have also been known to occur on film sets, and that’s exactly what happened to John Bernecker, a stuntman who “fell to his death on the set of ‘The Walking Dead’ in Georgia.” As a result of the accident, Bernecker’s mother, Susan Bernecker, recently filed a lawsuit against the “show’s network and other parties, saying unreasonably low budgets led to inadequate safety precautions.” The accident itself occurred on July 12, 2017.

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Bullied Altoona Area School District Student Commits Suicide, Family Files Lawsuit

- January 30, 2018

A federal lawsuit was filed earlier this week by Marc Lansberry, the father of “Wyatt J. Lansberry, a 12-year-old seventh-grader, who took his own life on May 18 after experiencing a ‘particularly brutal day of bullying’ at the Altoona Area Junior High School.” The lawsuit itself was filed in Johnstown with the blessing of Wyatt’s mother, Terri Bradford, and “outlines in detail the psychological toll that persistent bullying took on the child.”

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“Batterygate” Drops Dozens More Lawsuits on Apple

- January 26, 2018

Disgruntled iPhone owners won’t let “Batterygate” go. Even after Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company would release a software update giving iPhone owners the option to turn off a battery-throttling feature, individuals and organizations won’t stop suing. Behind the now-infamous scandal was a corporate decision to secretly introduce a “dynamic power management” feature in

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