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By Michael A. Mora | May 3, 2024
"I'd rather take my chances and preserve life than being reversed," the Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge ruled.
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By Daniel B. Garrie and Michael Mann | May 3, 2024
While AI in the legal profession still has a long way to go before it truly replaces the role of lawyers and judges on a large scale, AI has many uses that can increase efficiency. It is likely that we will only see AI take on a larger role and continue to change the way we practice law.
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By Francis J. Lawall and Heather P. Smillie | May 3, 2024
In a recent decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware upheld a bankruptcy court's ruling that a liquidating trust had the authority to pursue not only estate causes of action, but also third-party claims held by preference defendants and turned over to the trust as part of preference claim settlement consideration.
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By Andrew McBride | May 3, 2024
A recent opinion out of the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal makes clear that the failure of a lender or its successor in interest to introduce and authenticate original promissory notes at trial may result in the claimant failing to recover judgment for money damages on those notes.
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By Jules Epstein | May 3, 2024
Pennsylvania law, as does federal, permits a person accused of a crime to "defend" in part by proving their "good" character, limited to the pertinent trait. If the crime is robbery or assault, the defense is that the accused is nonviolent; and if the crime charged is forgery or theft, that the person is honest.
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By C. Raymond Radigan and Jessica M. Baquet | May 3, 2024
Every Surrogate's Court case is a special proceeding for which there is a presumption that no right to a jury trial exists. There is, however, a limited subset of a cases in which a Surrogate's Court proceeding may be tried to a jury.
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By Ross Todd | May 3, 2024
Peter Stris of Stris & Maher got an important win this week for ERISA plaintiffs at the Second Circuit.
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By ALM Staff | May 2, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
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By Mason Lawlor | May 2, 2024
"[T]he harm from the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the defense of accident was compounded by the trial court's express instruction that the jury must 'disregard' that accident was a key legal principle," Georgia Supreme Court Justice Nels Peterson said.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 2, 2024
The inaugural Class Action Litigation Report, released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found class action filings steadily increased from 2014 to 2020, dipped 10% in 2021, then started rising again in 2022. Last year, class action filings jumped 4% to 9,705.
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