A: The plaintiff is the party who brings the lawsuit. This typically means the plaintiff is the one making a claim, and seeking a remedy of some kind (often monetary damages). So, you could say a ...

From Redacted v. Barr, decided April 19 by Judge Cormac Carney (C.D. Cal.): In this case, Plaintiff [Redacted], acting pro se, challenged child pornography statutes in this era of advanced technology.

In Part I of his two-part series, Bob Genis reviews how the plaintiff s in negligence and malpractice cases can strategically require the defendant to appear at trial during the plaintiff’s direct ...

Q: Who can’t recover for defamation even though they may have been libeled? A: The libel-proof plaintiff. The “libel-proof plaintiff” doctrine provides an independent ground for dismissing a ...