Background: In September 2022, reports emerged that an IVF procedure at Assuta’s Rishon LeZion hospital had resulted in a patient carrying an embryo genetically unrelated to her or her partner. Four proposed class actions were subsequently filed by other patients who had undergone similar IVF treatment. The consolidated certification proceeding alleges that Assuta’s acts and omissions…
Held: Justice Ofer Grosskopf denied leave to appeal without requesting a response. The Supreme Court held that the findings and conclusions of an investigative committee established under section 21 are not privileged and may be admitted in judicial proceedings. Section 21(b) requires disclosure of those materials to specified recipients but does not prohibit disclosure to anyone else. By contrast, section 21(c)…
Background: Darrell D. Banks received probationary sentences after pleading guilty in 2022 to disregarding a police signal, second-degree assault, second-degree conspiracy, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. In 2023, he pleaded guilty in another case to possession with intent to deliver and possession of firearm ammunition by a person prohibited. The Superior Court subsequently found multiple…
Held: The Delaware Supreme Court granted the State's motion to affirm. It held that Banks waived a contested hearing after counsel described his options and Banks acknowledged that he had missed curfew. That admission supplied sufficient evidence to revoke his probation.
Background: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust owned the former Queen Mary’s Hospital site in Hampstead. In 2005, it granted Newlon Housing Trust a 99-year lease of parts of the building containing one flat and 53 bedsits. A related Nomination Agreement gave the NHS Trust priority rights to nominate healthcare and key workers for accommodation, while…
Held: Master Kaye, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, held that the parties were not bound by Harris’s 31 August 2022 determination. His decision on the special-purchaser issue was an interim step within the lease’s expert-determination process, not a freestanding binding determination that survived the failure to determine market value and the Option B compensation. The parties had not made…
Background: Gerard Kelleher brought judicial review proceedings concerning section 27(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, including constitutional and European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 challenges. Although he was released from prison before the substantive hearing, the High Court had previously refused to stay the case as moot because the issue was considered sufficiently…
Held: Mr. Justice Conleth Bradley held that Kelleher’s challenge qualified as public-interest litigation under the principles stated in Little v The Chief Appeals Officer (No. 2). It was not, however, an exceptional, foundational, far-reaching, constitutionally novel or fundamentally important case that could justify awarding costs to Kelleher despite his substantive defeat.
Background: Jose Camara, a farm laborer for Gill Dairy, was severely injured in 2019 when his clothing became entangled in an unguarded rotating power take-off shaft on a sand spreader. He alleged that Gill Dairy had deliberately removed the shaft’s safety guards, entitling him to the rebuttable presumption of intent to injure under R.C. 2745.01(C).
Held: The Supreme Court of Ohio reversed. When a summary-judgment denial rests on a factual dispute and the case later goes to trial, an appellate court must consider the full trial record, not only the pretrial summary-judgment materials. The Twelfth District improperly set aside the jury’s verdict based on its segregated review of the earlier record.
Background: Funds representing the proceeds of two dissolved partnerships were held in court. Dr Praneal Sharma sought payment out of those funds, while Glenn Livingstone, liquidator and receiver of South West Radiology Pty Ltd (in liquidation), sought judicial advice on their treatment.
Held: Brereton J held that the costs of both Dr Sharma and Mr Livingstone concerning the set-off issue should substantially be borne from the partnership funds. Although Dr Sharma failed on set-off, his argument was novel, reasonably arguable, and, if successful, would have benefited all partners by maximising the funds returned to them. His participation was properly characterised as part of…
Background: M and S were each charged with wilfully attempting to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice in connection with the 1985 investigation and prosecution of Alan Hall for the murder of Arthur Easton and wounding of Brendon Easton. Hall was convicted in 1986, but the Supreme Court quashed his convictions in 2022…
Held: After a judge-alone trial, Gault J found M not guilty on Charge 1 and S not guilty on Charge 2. The Court entered acquittals for both defendants.
Background: Hope M. Rasmussen, Cecilia F.M. Richardson, and William Richardson were the plaintiffs-appellees in a dispute against William Coward. Rasmussen and Richardson were also identified as co-trustees of the Hope M. Rasmussen Trust dated May 4, 2024.
Held: The Supreme Court of Hawaiʻi rejected Coward’s application for a writ of certiorari, which had been filed on June 22, 2026.
Background: Johnathan Orlando Jackson worked at a café in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Children’s Hospital of Richmond. On March 8, 2024, shortly after his supervisor told him not to return to work, Jackson left his apartment wearing clothing that nearly concealed his face and walked to a bus stop used by café employees. Video showed Vincent Robinson,…
Held: The Court of Appeals affirmed. It held that the trial court did not manifestly err by declining to strike Juror 12, who disclosed that she had previously had a gun held to her head and had witnessed another gun-related attack. Although the juror said those experiences could skew her view, she also said they would not affect her ability to…
Background: Alan Waddell alleged that while working for HCSG at a Missouri nursing and rehabilitation facility, his supervisor, Ronald East, repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed him. Waddell reported the conduct and was later terminated, ostensibly for missing scheduled shifts. HCSG subsequently rehired him at a different facility after promising that he would not have to see…
Held: The Court of Appeals made the writ permanent, holding that the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 made the arbitration agreement unenforceable as to Waddell's case. Although Waddell did not plead standalone sexual-assault or sexual-harassment causes of action, his claims related to alleged sexual assault and harassment and the employer's response. The EFAA applies…
Background: Residents brought four actions alleging that defects in municipal and county sewage-disposal systems caused raw sewage and storm water to flood their homes. The actions named Oakland County, the George W. Kuhn Drainage District, the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner, and the relevant locality: Southfield, Royal Oak, Birmingham, or Beverly Hills.
Held: The Court of Appeals held that MCR 2.118(A)(1) permits a party to amend a complaint once as a matter of right at any time before an adverse party serves a responsive pleading and through 14 days after such service. The rule’s phrase “within 14 days after” sets the deadline for amendment; it does not require the opposing party to serve…
Background: Charles Conner was ordered to pay child support following the parties’ 1979 divorce. Over the ensuing years, courts repeatedly found substantial unpaid support and ordered payments toward the arrearages. His current-support obligation ended in 1997 when the parties’ youngest child was emancipated, but the unpaid balance remained.
Held: The appellate court affirmed. It held that the statutory presumption favoring a zero-dollar order for certain parents with no income, means-tested assistance, or a medically proven inability to work governs current child support, not payment of an existing arrearage. Each unpaid support installment had become an enforceable judgment, and the arrearage remained a debt after the children’s emancipation. The statutory…