I'm back!
I am slowly getting back into my daily routine after concluding a long trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
Regular readers (assuming there are some) know that I usually provide a summary of my cases that go to trial, but I have to sit this one out. In lieu of my usual post-game wrapup, I offer the following: "The matter resolved in a manner mutually agreeable to the parties, beyond which I have no comment."
Sorry, curious readers. Maybe next time.
But that's OK. On to the next case. And I have some interesting things cooking: a trucking accident that caused a brain injury, a retained foreign body medical negligence case, and an appeal involving the scope of a trial court's authority to confirm an arbitration award, among others. So I won't run out of cool stuff to do.
As a bonus, here is a step into Bizzarro-world. In Shady Grove Orthopedic Assoc. v. Allstate, Justice Scalia writes an opinion in favor of a class of plaintiffs, allowing a class action to proceed in federal court despite a state law that arguably would bar the action. Scalia? Plaintiffs? Wierd, huh? Really, I think this has more to do with the scope of Congress' rules enabling statute and respecting precedent than anything else. But nonetheless, Scalia gives one to the good guys. HT to SCOTUSblog.
Even more bizarre is the makeup of the majority: Scalia, Roberts, Stevens, Thomas and Sotomayor(?) Strange bedfellows indeed.
