By Jason Grant | June 21, 2017
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 Andrew Denney | June 21, 2017
The new case management order for New York City's asbestos courts, released Tuesday and set to take effect on July 20, contains provisions that both defense and plaintiffs' attorneys can either support or loathe.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 21, 2017
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit panel Wednesday rejected attempts by a plaintiff to assert a First Circuit standard for securities fraud cases dealing with the disclosure of information to investors.
By Marcia Coyle | June 21, 2017
Big-business advocates are lining up with the Trump administration's new position in the U.S. Supreme Court that workplace arbitration agreements banning class actions do not violate federal labor law.
By Lynn K. Neuner and William T. Russell Jr. | June 20, 2017
In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Lynn K. Neuner and William T. Russell Jr. discuss an appeal arising out of the proposed development at the former Shea Stadium site. The majority ruled that the development known as "Willets West" cannot proceed because the legislature has not clearly and expressly provided that the parkland underlying the development site can be freed from serving as a park space, as is required under the public trust doctrine, while Chief Judge Janet DiFiore reached the opposite conclusion.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 19, 2017
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's push to compel ExxonMobil to produce additional documents as part of its fraud case against the energy company has been clipped, at least for the time being, by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager.
By Kristen Rasmussen | June 19, 2017
A federal judge in the Eastern District has dismissed charges accusing a Long Island doctor of overprescribing opioid medication. The doctor had used the novel defense of accusing pharmaceutical companies of being responsible, but the judge dismissed the charges because the indictment failed to include necessary statutory elements. U.S. Attorney's office says it will file a new indictment.
By Tony Mauro | June 19, 2017
In a win for the corporate defense bar, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened jurisdictional rules that determine where companies can be sued.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 16, 2017
The appeals court will be asked to answer two questions: Whether former employees have standing, and whether a former employee not alleging unlawful discharge may seek reinstatement.
By Jason Grant | June 16, 2017
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."
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