Benchmarks: Segway rider escapes DWI charge 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 24, 2013
Tags: drunk driving, DUI, DWI, Segway
Police caught a Minnesota man tooling down the road with a blood alcohol level over twice the legal limit.
But the man doesn’t have to worry about serious criminal charges because Minnesota courts have decided that his Segway isn’t a motor vehicle under the state’s drunk driving laws.
Texas lawyer’s DUI wristbands draw ire from MADD
Published: November 19, 2012
Tags: attorney advertising, drunk driving, DUI, ethics
A Texas criminal defense attorney’s unique advertising method has drawn the attention – and the ire – of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Couple wins $1.7 million in DUI case against restaurant
Published: October 4, 2012
Tags: car crash, drunk driving, DUI, negligence, North Carolina, restaurant, wrongful death
A jury has awarded a Charlotte, N.C. couple $1.7 million in a lawsuit against a Cotswold-area restaurant, in connection with an October 2010 head-on collision that killed the couple’s unborn son.
Benchmarks: Can driver interrupt breath test to call lawyer?
Published: September 12, 2012
Tags: breath test, drunk driving, DUI, implied consent, right to counsel
If a state affords an arrested drunk driver the right to call a lawyer before submitting to a breath test, can a driver who has second thoughts interrupt the actual administration of a test to telephone an attorney?
That’s the precise issue just addressed by one state court.
Parents to pay $1.2 million in son’s DUI crash
Published: May 10, 2012
Tags: California, car crash, DUI, negligence, traumatic brain injury
A Santa Rosa, Calif. couple has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them of negligence for giving their alcoholic, adult son the pickup he was driving when he crashed into two teenage sisters at a bus stop.
Barron Hilton ordered to pay $4.9 million in drunken driving case
Published: July 19, 2011
Tags: car accident, drunk driving, DUI, loss of earnings, medical expenses, pain and suffering, pedestrian
Barron Hilton, the younger brother of Paris Hilton, has been ordered to pay $4.9 million to a former gas station attendant he struck with his Mercedes-Benz, an attorney said.
Ruling gives muscle to Confrontation Clause
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: July 11, 2011
Tags: Confrontation Clause, criminal, DUI, lab tests, Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the Confrontation Clause bars admission of laboratory reports such as blood-alcohol content tests through the in-court testimony of an analyst who did not personally perform the test was viewed as a major victory by some defense attorneys.
Jury awards $49.2 million in car crash suit
By:
Associated Press
Published: February 3, 2011
Tags: automobile accident, California, drunk driving, DUI, police officer, wrongful death
A Ventura County, Calif. jury has awarded more than $49 million in a lawsuit stemming from a freeway accident that killed one man and left a California Highway Patrol officer a quadriplegic.
Jury awards $6.8 million to woman injured by patron of restaurant in DUI crash
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 23, 2010
Tags: automobile accident, drunk driving, DUI, overserve, Pennsylvania, restaurant
A Common Pleas Court jury has found a Coatesville, Pa. restaurant liable for continuing to serve alcohol to an intoxicated man who later caused a car accident that severely injured a Chester County woman.
Attorneys take on prescription ‘drugged’ driving cases
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: August 12, 2010
Tags: drugged driving, DUI, prescription drugs
Prosecutors are stepping up their efforts against prescription “drugged drivers,” but DUI defense attorneys are taking them on, and often they are winning.
