Attorney Richard Jon Riley's Legal Cases

Defective and dangerous products

Jackson v. Wal-Mart Stores, 753 Fed. App’x 866 (11th Cir. 2018)

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OUTCOME:

(reversing district judge’s dismissal of severe burn injury case and held the complaint was specific enough to plead a product liability claim against Walmart)

Medical malpractice

HealthSouth Rehab. Hosp. v. Honts, 276 So. 3d 185 (Ala. 2018)

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OUTCOME:

(affirming liability of rehabilitation hospital based solely on circumstantial evidence that its employees overmedicated elderly lady and caused her death and then tried to cover it up)

Class action

Cooley v. HMR of Alabama Inc., 747 Fed. App’x 805 (11th Cir. 2018)

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OUTCOME:

(reversing district judge’s dismissal of fair wage case under federal law brought on behalf of employees of nursing home).

Appeals

Hutchinson v. State, 66 So.3d 220 (Ala. 2010)

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OUTCOME:

(overruling circuit judge’s failure to provide full payment of legal fees to lawyer appointed to defend capital murder suspect for allegedly killing a newborn when lawyer’s work proved to a scientific ... certainty that no baby existed, and no death occurred).

Appeals

Banks v. State, 845 So.2d 9 (Ala. Crim. App. 2002)

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OUTCOME:

(overruling circuit judge’s failure to allow criminal defendant to withdraw guilty plea for allegedly killing a newborn when evidence proved to a scientific certainty that no baby existed, and no death ... occurred).

Richard Jon Riley's Legal Cases (15)

Jackson v. Wal-Mart Stores, 753 Fed. App’x 866 (11th Cir. 2018)

HealthSouth Rehab. Hosp. v. Honts, 276 So. 3d 185 (Ala. 2018)

Cooley v. HMR of Alabama Inc., 747 Fed. App’x 805 (11th Cir. 2018)

Hutchinson v. State, 66 So.3d 220 (Ala. 2010)

Banks v. State, 845 So.2d 9 (Ala. Crim. App. 2002)