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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
June 27, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A state appeals court ordered a new trial Tuesday in the negligence case of a man injured in a sinkhole, ruling that the trial judge committed reversible error by precluding certain evidence and directing verdicts for the defendants.
By Jason Grant
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June 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal
Christina Swarns, a capital defense lawyer and litigation director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been chosen to lead the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York.
By Jason Grant
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June 23, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Manhattan judge properly imputed income in a divorce to an Ivy League-educated wife who stopped full-time lawyering in 1999, since she maintained her law license, engaged in professional activities and did consulting work, an appeals court has ruled.
By Jason Grant
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June 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Manhattan appeals court threw out a $1.35 million verdict on Thursday, saying a trial judge committed reversible error when she decided from the bench that a breach of contract occurred, thereby stripping the issue from the jury.
By Jason Grant
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June 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A Manhattan judge has struck a defendant's answer in a media-based breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition suit, after finding that 2,000 emails, including attorney-client privileged information possessed by plaintiffs, had been hacked and stolen.
By Jason Grant
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June 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal
In a retrial that allowed additional plaintiff-side expert testimony, a Manhattan jury has awarded $14 million to a former New York Times interior designer…
By Jason Grant
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June 20, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A state appeals court on Tuesday shut down Paul Napoli's bid to pursue defamation and defamation per se counterclaims against Denise Rubin, a former employee who is pursuing a $1 million sex discrimination lawsuit against the ex-firm and Napoli himself.
By Jason Grant
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June 19, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A recently retired acting Manhattan Supreme Court justice and Court of Claims judge has agreed to never seek or accept state judicial office again after failing to perform his job for three years while struggling with "severe and pervasive" health problems.
By Jason Grant
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June 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A split First Department panel allowed the lawsuit against Montefiore Medical Center, brought by a 17-year-old who suffered a pulmonary embolism and brain damage, to proceed based largely on a physician's statements that, "if the nurse practitioner had removed the NuvaRing, and referred plaintiff for further assessment, all of the subsequent injuries and complications suffered by plaintiff would have been avoided."
By Jason Grant
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June 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal
A medical malpractice action alleging that a hospital failed to diagnose a man's cancerous wound must be dismissed because he filed a notice of claim too late, a state appellate court ruled Thursday.
By Jason Grant
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