Derek Boogaard's family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the National Hockey League, The New York Times reported Sunday.
He won renown taking up the wrongful-death case of Libby Zion, the daughter of New York Daily News columnist Sidney Zion.
His family filed a wrongful-death suit against the NFL, claiming the league didn't do enough to prevent or treat the concussions that severely damaged his brain.
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The wrongful-death civil suit brought by the Branch Davidians will be heard by a federal judge, and will probably produce further testimony challenging the Justice Department's version of events.
His family received a settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit.
That followed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against Monster last week by the parents of a Maryland teen who died of cardiac arrest and caffeine toxicity after allegedly drinking two 24-ounce Monster cans.
Likewise, Roberts won a Supreme Court ruling that the family of a woman who died in a fire could not use the federal wrongful-death statute to sue the city of Tarrant, Alabama.
Michael Jackson's family has "floated" the possibility of filing a wrongful-death lawsuit against AEG Live because of its "very, very active role in Michael's life during the last six months, " Levitch said Monday.
The family of former Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died in May 2011 after overdosing on alcohol and painkilling medication, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the NHL, one of the family's attorneys confirmed Sunday.
Attorney Robert Allard and the family of 15-year-old Audrie Pott also announced plans on Monday to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the three, 16-year-old suspects as well as their parents and the family of a girl who hosted the Labor Day party where their daughter was attacked.
Simpson is being sued for wrongful death in the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.
Three years later the siblings of Julia Margaret Siverls, a ccny professor, filed a wrongful death action in New York state court, charging that their 41-year-old sister "was drugged and killed by the Dahn Hak cult" during a training retreat in Sedona.
Canon City, Colorado (CNN) -- Life begins at conception, according to the Catholic Church, but in a wrongful death suit in Colorado, a Catholic health care company has argued just the opposite.
Once, wrongful convictions because of lawyer error stood a good chance of being overturned on appeal, especially in death-penalty cases.
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