Website’s forum selection clause enforceable

A home remodeling customer is bound by a forum selection clause for a website she used to obtain referrals for building contractors, the Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a dismissal. The defendant operates a website that offers free referrals for...

Website’s forum selection clause enforceable

A home remodeling customer is bound by a forum selection clause for a website she used to obtain referrals for building contractors, the Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a dismissal. The defendant operates a website that offers free referrals for...

Expert can’t be excluded as discovery sanction

A product liability expert should not have been excluded as a sanction for the plaintiff’s failure to comply with a discovery deadline, the 1st Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment. The plaintiff filed a product liability lawsuit after he lost three...

Jury awards farmers $2M for biotech rice accident

Bayer CropScience must pay two Missouri farmers more than $2 million in damages as the result of the company’s accidental release of experimental biotech rice into the food supply. This was the first verdict in several lawsuits filed in response to Bayer’s...