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John Lisowski, Product Liability Defense Lawyer, 70
John Lisowski, a Newark lawyer who spent four decades in defense of product liability cases on trial and on appeal, died Oct. 28.U.S. Judge's Two-Thirds Fee Cut Was No 'Laffey' Matter
Since its invention back in 1983, the Laffey Matrix has been used by courts in the District of Columbia to gauge billing rates in fee-shifting cases. But New Jersey federal court practitioners should be wary about relying on it here.Court Upholds Damages, Strikes Fees in Suit Over Door-to-Door Vacuum Sales
A state appeals court on Thursday upheld more than $1 million in damages in a class-action suit against a consumer-credit company and a company that sells vacuum cleaners door to door, though it struck down a $1 million-plus award of counsel fees and costs.Cumberland Judge Denied Tenure in Face of Criticism of Her Competence
A decade ago, Marianne Espinosa Murphy was denied reappointment as a Superior Court judge due to an exercise of senatorial courtesy, avowedly based on criticism of her judicial acumen. Now, Superior Court Judge Diane Cohen is about to suffer a similar fate and, in an odd confluence, it is happening just as Murphy is seeking a new judgeship.Merck Shareholders' Vytorin Suit Settles For $5.1 Mil. in Fees
Settlement of a shareholders derivative suit over Merck & Co.'s alleged suppression of an unfavorable clinical study of its cholesterol drug Vytorin has won a federal judge's approval.Villanova v. Innovative Investigations Inc.
The placement of a GPS device in a spouse's vehicle does not constitute the tort of invasion of privacy where the spouse had no reasonable expectation of privacy.Trending Stories
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