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• Trying to keep his personal injury complaint against Nucor Steel Kankakee from getting knocked out by the exculpatory clause in a “gate entry agreement,” Oscar Munoz — an independent contractor who was severely injured by a fall at Nucor’s recycling facility — invoked the rationale of the longstanding Illinois doctrine that bars employers from using contracts to avoid liability to employees for personal injuries.
• The unanimous part of the Nebraska Supreme Court’s opinion on a legal malpractice claim against Andrew W. Snyder was the conclusion that he wasn’t liable for failing to accurately predict the answer to an unsettled question of law. What split the high court was whether his clients could sue him for allegedly failing to advise them about the risks presented by his approach to the unresolved issue.
• Surveying the even split on a “somewhat regularly occurring legal issue” about two-party checks under the “supposedly uniform” Uniform Commercial Code, a federal judge in Florida considered “whether cashing a two-party check by one co-payee, without the knowledge, involvement, or endorsement of the other co-payee, discharges the party that issued the check from its liability on the check and any underlying contractual obligation.
  
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