Fifth Circuit Stands Up for Slip-and-Fall Trial.

E. Grady Jolly, Fifth Circuit Judge, writing for a panel including Judge James L. Dennis and Senior Judge Harold R. DeMoss, Jr. of that court holds that a trial court should not have granted summary judgment in a slip-and-fall case, where there was some evidence that the "wet floor" sign that the slipped on might have been there long after the floor had dried and that other actions of the defendant might possibly show negligence.
Hat tip to Lawyers USA Online for this case.

It'll Likely Be a Good Complaint Some Day, But No Time Soon

Fifth Circuit Judge Fortunado P. Benevides, writing for a panel including Carl E. Stewart and Leslie Southwick, reinforced the circuit's view that a district court may
impose a federal sentence that runs consecutively to an undischarged state
sentence. The Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits agree with the Fives. The government, along with the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, take the opposite side. Last year Fifth Circuit Judges Priscilla Owen and James L. Dennis even indicated that they didn't like the ruling. A circuit split like this may well interest the Supreme Court of the United States.