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The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged in the deaths of her three children, has reached its final stages, with closing arguments following weeks of testimony centered on a single legal question: was she criminally responsible for her actions at the time, given her documented postpartum psychosis? Regardless of the outcome, the case has put a rarely-used and widely misunderstood legal defense back in the national spotlight...
Few legal matters carry as much emotional weight as child custody. Whether it arises from a divorce, a separation, or a dispute between parents who were never married, custody decisions shape a child's daily life, their relationship with each parent, and often the family's finances for years. Yet the process is widely misunderstood — clouded by outdated assumptions, courtroom myths, and advice that may have been true a decade...
Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Google are now defending against more than 3,000 individual lawsuits, a growing stack of state attorney general actions, and a consolidated multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceeding — all built around the same core claim: that these platforms were designed to be addictive to minors and that the companies knew, and hid, the harm. This page tracks the major fronts of that fight in one place.
The Big...
Two of the biggest product liability fights in American courts right now involve everyday household products: Johnson & Johnson's talcum-based baby powder, alleged to cause ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, and Bayer's Roundup weedkiller, alleged to cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Together they represent tens of thousands of individual claims and some of the largest jury verdicts in mass tort history.
Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Litigation
J&J has spent years attempting to resolve...
The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged in the deaths of her three children, has reached its final stages, with closing arguments...
Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Google are now defending against more than 3,000 individual lawsuits, a growing stack of state attorney general actions, and a...