By Brian Lee | January 5, 2024
In making its unanimous decision, the Appellate Division, Third Department, turned back a lawsuit filed on behalf of a trade association of 50-plus law firms that represent motorists in traffic violation adjudicatory proceedings.
By Brian Lee | January 3, 2024
The Court of Appeals' ruling is expected to have broad implications not just for New York—one of the hardest hit states during the pandemic—but nationally, since the court's interpretation of the policy language could impact how other courts rule on pandemic-related business interruption disputes.
Daily Report Online | Analysis
By Alex Anteau | December 21, 2023
"We're in a period of upheaval in terms of how we're assessing juries," consultant Tara Trask said.
By Alex Anteau | December 20, 2023
"I tell trial lawyers all the time: 'Look at the jurors.' It's shocking how many lawyers are trying cases, and don't ever look over the jury to see what's going on," former DeKalb County State Court Judge Dax Lopez said.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Allison Dunn | December 19, 2023
"Judge Wolson only ruled on certain preliminary legal pleading issues, but at this stage, of course, he did not make any determination on the accuracy of the plaintiff's alleged claims or consider any of the firm's factual defenses," the firm's attorney, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Michael Banks, said via email Tuesday.
By Colleen Murphy | December 12, 2023
"The central issue is whether the detention of the masks by customs authorities constituted a 'physical loss or damage' to the masks," the opinion said. "Our review of the plain language of the policy does not convince us it was ambiguous."
By Lisa Willis | December 11, 2023
"I think that it's going to take a different type of mediator in the future than those which have historically been doing it," Attorney Abbey Kaplan said.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | December 8, 2023
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has upheld an $8.5 million jury verdict in a breach-of-contract suit over the manufacturing of COVID-19 tests after determining that a new trial wasn't warranted.
By Everett Catts | December 8, 2023
"[The defendant] is speciously trying to apply immunity for truly frontline workers to himself and trying to speciously apply Emory [Johns Creek Hospital]'s arbitration agreement for his conduct," plaintiff attorney Adam Malone said. "The trial court and appeals court rejected both of those arguments, [saying] they're not applicable to him."
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Emily Cousins | December 8, 2023
"If the law compels a judge to write an opinion that a church may still preach its doctrine and its congregants may live that doctrine everywhere except church, the Constitution has died in the United States," Cameron Atkinson said.
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