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Allison Dunn is a reporter on ALM's Rapid Response desk based in Ohio, covering impactful litigation filings and rulings, emerging legal trends, controversies in the industry, and everything in between. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @AllisonDWrites.
September 11, 2023 | Law.com
On Aug. 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the district court's ruling on appeal, and therefore, the "predominance analysis on which MBA relies is no longer good law," a U.S. District Court judge wrote.
By Allison Dunn
6 minute read
June 27, 2023 | Law.com
It's unknown how many attorneys may have been similarly affected, but this is the second example in a matter of weeks of IP lawyers taking on the world's largest online marketplace over its so-called blacklist.
By Allison Dunn
5 minute read
March 15, 2023 | Law.com
"Here, Estep contends that his accident occurred while he was loading his car with luggage, which was part of a greater mission of returning home to Chesapeake with that luggage," Judge Frank K. Friedman wrote on behalf of the majority. "Simply put, transporting luggage is a valid and expected use of a vehicle, and one cannot transport the baggage without first packing the vehicle."
By Allison Dunn
5 minute read
March 3, 2023 | Law.com
"Virginia has a very unique view of data privacy," Beth Burgin Waller, Chair of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice at Woods Rogers, told Law.com. "If you looked at when this hit, you were really coming at an emerging time when you had Europe with [General Data Protection Regulation] GDRP and California with CCPA. Out of the gate—out-of-nowhere, almost—it felt like Virginia came running to the scene with the CDPA, the Consumer Data Protection Act."
By Allison Dunn
5 minute read
February 17, 2023 | Law.com
Walter E. Laake Jr. was the managing partner for 27 years and helped grow the firm from five to 35 attorneys.
By Allison Dunn
2 minute read
February 9, 2023 | Law.com
Finding courts in the First Circuit have yet to address the framework for determining whether online terms were sufficiently disclosed to provide a consent defense to a Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts relied on recent Ninth Circuit case law in allowing a putative class action to proceed.
By Allison Dunn
6 minute read
February 6, 2023 | Law.com
Resolution 300 failed by voice vote Monday at the policymaking body's midyear meeting in New Orleans.
By Christine Charnosky | Allison Dunn
7 minute read
January 17, 2023 | Law.com
"It's a very novel case," said one of the plaintiff's attorneys, Anthony May, an associate with Brown Goldstein & Levy. "... [T]his is one of the first cases in the federal space to really determine these issues that intersect with civil rights and these arguments that there's some sort of religious freedom. "
By Allison Dunn
6 minute read
January 4, 2023 | Law.com
"Judge Moon's lengthy opinion reviewing the mountain of evidence we introduced at trial and affirming the jury verdicts on the culpability of each and every defendant confirms what really happened—motivated by the tenets of white supremacy, defendants engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to commit violence in Charlottesville in August 2017," plaintiffs counsel said.
By Allison Dunn
7 minute read
December 9, 2022 | Law.com
The state's money wasn't used for business purposes; rather, the AG's office claims the defendants spent $52,000 in charges at casinos, $46,000 in Venmo cash transfers, $7,400 at a furniture store in California and more than $3,000 in charges for UberEats.
By Allison Dunn
3 minute read
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Riker Danzig deeply mourns the passing of our esteemed partner, dear friend and beloved colleague, Marc D'Angiolillo.
IN MEMORIAM OUR FRIEND, MENTOR, AND COLLEAGUE It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our partner, friend, mentor, and colleague Bruce I. Goldstein, on September 2, 2023. The prominent New Jersey trial attorney was 80. In a legal career spanning more than five decades, Bruce was regarded as one of the most talented and sought after litigators in New Jersey. His love for the legal profession was contagious. Bruce will be greatly missed, as will his signature greeting, How you be? and the outsized smile that accompanied it.
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