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Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
August 19, 2022 | Law.com
The Seventh Circuit ruled that a Walmart distribution center had shown a "legitimate, nondiscriminatory justification" for offering lighter duty to employees injured on the job, but not to pregnant workers, since the injured-worker policy was tied to the state of Wisconsin's worker's compensation law.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 19, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The trustee of a daughter's bankruptcy estate on Tuesday was denied a motion to reinstate a fraud claim against the daughter's mother by a state appeals court that said the fraud claim had already been "adjudicated," even the lower court never decided that specific claim on the merits.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 18, 2022 | New York Law Journal
In a news release that linked the "Assurance of Discontinuance" agreement, James pointed to the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which "outlawed efforts to deny housing to renters with a history of landlord-tenant court cases."
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 17, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The Appellate Division, Second Department deemed the eight charges, which included misappropriation of client funds for the attorney's own use, "established," as the lawyer defaulted in the ethics matter.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The ongoing suit that has led to the contempt finding against the DOC, and now imposed fines, was launched in 2021 by several inmates who are jointly represented by The Legal Aid Society of New York, the Brooklyn Defender Services and the Am Law 100 law firm Milbank.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 12, 2022 | Law.com
"Whether remote classes were an adequate substitute for in-person instruction" after the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted BU's spring 2020 semester "goes to the issue of damages, not breach," wrote the federal judge, who also found that damages issues must go forward based on other reasons.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
August 12, 2022 | New York Law Journal
The suit has attracted recent media attention. In May, musician Chapman Roberts, a Black man who has worked in show business for more than 50 years, put out a press release in which he framed his action as a "David-and-Goliath lawsuit," and said, "This is a precedent-setting case seeped in the reparations furor that has been brewing in this country and globally for decades."
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
August 11, 2022 | New York Law Journal
A state appeals court has reversed a Brooklyn Supreme Court's dismissal of a medical malpractice lawsuit against Mount Sinai Hospital, ruling that the trial court "inappropriately relied upon the plaintiff's general delay in prosecuting the action" and that dismissing the suit amounted to as "drastic remedy" only deserved where there 's a clear failure to comply with discovery demands.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
August 10, 2022 | New York Law Journal
A series of four New York State Bar Association-sponsored resolutions, ranging from a call for law enforcement to have additional time to conduct gun-purchaser background checks to reaffirming that law practices should not be owned by nonlawyers, have been adopted by the American Bar Association.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
August 9, 2022 | Daily Business Review
A Florida appeals court has reversed a trial court's rejection of a convict's ineffective-assistance grounds as relief from his conviction, saying that a judge's "subsequent explanation" regarding his true sentence-length exposure could not "cure" his lawyer's earlier wrongful advice.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
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