Aleeza Furman

September 16, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Carmella Jacquinto of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas' Sept. 13 rulings rejected a multipronged effort from Exxon Mobil to challenge the verdict handed up in May in Gill v. Exxon Mobil.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

September 13, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reid acknowledged in his opinion that "I am well aware that no §1983 police pursuit case in this circuit has been decided under a standard less than intent to harm."

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

September 12, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

A jury determined Wednesday that Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller was defective, but the defect did not cause plaintiff Ryan Young's non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

September 12, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Unlike in most data breach cases, the plaintiffs were able to determine the specifics of the damage done to class members, Saltz Mongeluzzi partner Patrick Howard said.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 12, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Judge Joshua Robert suggested lawyers who handle mass torts in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas try "resetting the dialogue," saying, "the more pedantic details or the more little things that we're going to be asked to decide are just going to bog us down."

By Aleeza Furman

5 minute read

September 11, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiffs in the action claimed that Bayada failed to pay nurses for time they spent giving or receiving reports on patients' status at the beginning and end of shifts and for time they spent completing company-mandated trainings.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

September 10, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

After the parties spent more than a year conducting venue discovery, the defendants failed to convince the court that the companies being sued did not conduct sufficient business in Philadelphia for the lawsuits to be situated there.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The 10 cases slated to go before the justices touch on issues including the scope of prosecutorial immunity, parentage of children conceived through assistive reproductive technology, and a transit system's claim to sovereign immunity.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 05, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The sort of systemic issues we have right now are new, and that's bringing a lot of legal firepower into it," said Dechert partner Martin Black.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 04, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

And alongside making determinations on liability and damages, the jury also answered what plaintiffs counsel said was an unusual question to find on a verdict sheet in a personal injury case: whether one of the defendants was the decedent's employer.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read