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By Chris O'Malley | February 9, 2024
Six former Bank of America loan officers says the financial institution "systemically" misclassified loan officers as exempt from overtime.
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By Emily Cousins | February 9, 2024
"There could be more instances of this out there, and we absolutely need to know the full scope of this problem in order to hold CooperSurgical and the Cooper Companies accountable for the harm that they've caused," Clarkson Law Firm's Tracey Cowan said.
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By Ross Todd | February 9, 2024
Kyle Hawkins and Leah Bower of Lehotsky Keller Cohn secured a ruling from the Fifth Circuit last week taking a $365 million punitive damages award to $0 in a case where a former FedEx manager claimed she was fired in retaliation for bringing claims of discrimination.
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By Alex Anteau | February 7, 2024
A wrongful-death medical-malpractice case out of Macon gave rise to the issue over whether a cap is constitutionally valid.
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By Emily Cousins | February 7, 2024
The litigation involved medical malpractice claims against the University of Connecticut Health Center.
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By Louis F. Locascio | February 6, 2024
"The issue, therefore, was the interrelationship between R. 4:26-4 (amendments to state the true names of fictitious defendants) and R. 4:9-3 (when such amendments relate back to the date of the initial pleadings)," writes Court Watch columnist Louis F. Locascio.
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By Emily Cousins | February 2, 2024
The alleged vexatious litigation damaged his reputation, and led to the loss of his professional liability insurance, the lawyer claimed. As a result, the attorney allegedly struggled to represent clients and make a living.
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By Allison Dunn | February 1, 2024
"Defendants acknowledged at oral argument that the record does not tell us whether the alleged hand-soaking occurred before or after the sutures were removed. But if Butts-Franklin had soaked her hand after the sutures were removed, it 'c[ould not] be the basis for a mitigation of damages instruction' because she 'did not act contrary to the advice given,'" Justice Stuart A. Raphael wrote on behalf of the unanimous appellate panel.
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By Colleen Murphy | February 1, 2024
A pair of lawsuits filed against JPMorgan Chase in Los Angeles and San Mateo superior courts alleged that the bank committed elder abuse by facilitating the theft of a combined $2 million from two elderly women's life savings through "pig butchering" schemes and fake Internal Revenue Service agent scams.
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By Emily Cousins | January 31, 2024
"The reality is that most revocation of acceptance claims don't go this route," defense lawyer Sandra Stanfield said. "Most of them are very simple courtside cases. For reasons that we're not 100% clear on, plaintiffs counsel in this case decided they wanted a jury, and decided on days of jury selection and days of trial and experts, all over $11,000."
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