This Week's News
Friday, May 17, 2013
Yale University Files Suit Alleging Misuse of Its Name
New Jersey Law Journal
Yale University has sent an unwanted namesake a stinging letter of rejection — in the form of lawsuit.
Friday, May 17, 2013
AP Subpoenas Spotlight Obama's Scrutiny of Press
The National Law Journal
The Obama administration's record on transparency once again faces criticism - this time from both Republicans and Democrats - following the revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained and reviewed Associated Press telephone records during a criminal investigation into a suspected leak of classified information.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Conn. court: Lawyers can't be sued for fraud
The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The state Supreme Court has ruled in an ex-NFL player's case that Connecticut lawyers can't be sued for fraud for their conduct in court cases because of a centuries-old legal doctrine called absolute immunity.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Sons of Pa. drowning victim sue property owner
The Associated Press
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The sons of a 73-year-old woman who drowned after falling into a suburban Philadelphia creek during a party have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Appeals court in Va. hears health reform challenge
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Liberty University lawyer urged a federal appeals court to overturn the Obama administration's health care reform law Thursday, arguing that it violates the school's religious rights by requiring it to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Public Defender Goes to Court to Halt Gloucester Jail Closure
New Jersey Law Journal
The Public Defender's Office is seeking to block closure of the Gloucester County jail, claiming transfer of inmates to far-away counties would violate their right to counsel.
Friday, May 17, 2013
American College of Trial Lawyers Leads the Way on Access to Justice
The Legal Intelligencer
In 2009, at the instigation of then-Chancellor Sayde Ladov, the Philadelphia Bar Association created a Civil Gideon Task Force to study problems of access to justice.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Third Circuit Rejects NLRB Recess Appointment
The Legal Intelligencer
Wading into the politically-charged waters of President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit set narrow parameters for the definition of a Senate recess that would allow the president authority to make appointments.
Friday, May 17, 2013
People in the News
The Legal Intelligencer
Brett Feldman, of counsel in the zoning and land use group at Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg, monitored a panel discussion regarding the new Zoning Code in Philadelphia and how it is continuing to reshape the city's retail/commercial landscape.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Federal Judge Certifies Classes in Kids-for-Cash Civil Suit
The Legal Intelligencer
A federal judge has certified two classes of juveniles and their parents in a suit following the "kids-for-cash" scandal in Luzerne County.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Judges Weigh Delaware Court of Chancery's Arbitration Program
The Legal Intelligencer
Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, asked to consider the constitutionality of the Delaware Court of Chancery's confidential arbitration program, focused at oral arguments Thursday on whether a 2009 statute enacted by the Delaware General Assembly gives the state's Chancery Court judges additional powers to conduct those sessions in private.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Subsequent Mortgagees Get No Satisfaction From Forged Statement
The Legal Intelligencer
In Secured Lending 101, we learn that the general rule is "first in time, first in right." Well, how does one determine who is "first in time"? Generally, secured lenders may rely on state and county recording offices to determine the priority of their lien against a borrower's property.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Judge tosses lawsuit against NY lake dredging
The Associated Press
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of 52 suburban Syracuse residents trying to stop Honeywell International from treating contaminated sludge in their community.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Former WVU administrators in MBA scandal file lawsuit
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa (AP) - Two key players in a master's degree scandal at West Virginia University nearly six years ago have filed a second federal lawsuit against the university.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Challenges begin to toughest US abortion laws
The Associated Press
FARGO, North Dakota (AP) - Activists on Wednesday filed the first legal challenge to recently approved abortion laws that would make the rural state of North Dakota the most restrictive in the country for women to terminate their pregnancies.
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