by Slate Stern | May 5, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
The warnings on prescription bottles range from boring and mundane, such as “may be taken on an empty stomach or with food,” to the painfully obvious, such as “for external use only, do not ingest,” to the perplexing, such as “do not eat grapefruit within three hours...
by Slate Stern | Apr 28, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog, Unfair Competition
Memory is notoriously unreliable. Criminology professors know this when they ask their spouse to visit class unexpectedly, have a brief conversation with the professor in the front of the classroom, and then leave; the students’ descriptions of the apparently...
by Slate Stern | Apr 21, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Most people who make New Year’s resolutions give them up quickly; the gym equipment that people buy from Amazon on January 1 barely gets a single use, if it even gets used at all. Meanwhile, at the beginning of every year, the Internet is abuzz about Divorce Monday,...
by Slate Stern | Apr 14, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Pedestrian Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Early on a Saturday morning in February 2026, motorists in Albuquerque called 911 when they saw an apparently unconscious man lying beside the road near the intersection of Eubank and Acoma Road SE. Officers from the Albuquerque Police Department responded to the...
by Slate Stern | Apr 7, 2026 | Pedestrian Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Many accidents in which a car strikes a pedestrian are not the result of carelessness, at least not entirely. Yes, the same risk factors that make a driver more likely to strike another car also make drivers more likely to strike pedestrians; these factors include...