Cases of Interest

“The standard of care imposed upon school personnel in carrying out this duty to supervise is identical to that required in the performance of their other duties. This uniform standard to which they are held is that degree of care which a person of ordinary prudence, charged with [comparable] duties, would exercise under the same circumstances.” C.A. v. William S. Hart Union High School Dist. (2012) 53 Cal.4th 861, 869.)

The assumption of the risk doctrine applies to plaintiffs injured by an inherent risk of a sport, irrespective of whether the specific injury itself was inherent to the sport.

A § 998 offer must be sufficiently certain, specific, or definite in its terms and conditions. An offer is sufficiently certain only if:

Cost shifting under section 998 is not limited to cases resolved by trial or arbitration.

Yes, under FRCP Rule 26(e) Duty to Supplement: Discovery, if a party acquires material additional information or learns that information was materially incorrect after serving discovery responses, the responding party has a duty to supplement or amend their response in a timely manner.