by Slate Stern | Jul 23, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
As soon as you are old enough to speak full sentences, you learn that you should look both ways before crossing the street. Pedestrians use caution when walking beside the road, especially in places where there are no sidewalks, and keep an eye out for moving vehicles...
by Slate Stern | Jul 16, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Anyone whose experience of intoxicating substances goes beyond elementary school “say no to drugs” classes knows that alcohol and cannabis are not interchangeable. Cannabis has never made anyone more belligerent, for example. While alcohol and cannabis both impair...
by Slate Stern | Jul 9, 2024 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Millions upon millions of American households own pet dogs; the percentages vary from one place to another, but the percentage is especially high in places like New Mexico, where there is ample space for backyards where dogs can roam around and where you are never far...
by Slate Stern | Jul 2, 2024 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Most car accidents are simply the result of a driver making a mistake, but most car accident lawsuits that go to trial have a large company or a local government as a defendant. One reason for this is that most individuals do not have the money to pay the damages the...
by Slate Stern | Jun 25, 2024 | Slate's Law Blog
Now that a third of 2024 has gone by, trucks are perfectly capable of driving themselves, but should we let them? Machines can do a lot of things with minimal human supervision, but sooner or later, it becomes obvious that they lack human judgment. Chatbots can write...