Discover how court judgments determine rights and responsibilities, including monetary and non-monetary outcomes. Learn about ...

Offers of judgment encourage settlement by shifting litigation risks to the party that refuses a reasonable settlement offer, thus forcing the party to carefully assess whether proceeding to trial is ...

In recent days, some persons have argued that a petition for declaratory judgment challenging the constitutionality of a statute cannot be filed in the Civil Law Court of Montserrado County or any ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

History is filled with decisions that went disastrously wrong—not because people lacked intelligence or technical skill, but because they lacked the strength of character to act on what they knew.

Not every order that can be appealed on an interlocutory basis "necessarily affects the final judgment." In practice, it can be difficult to tell what does and what does not—and the Court of Appeals ...