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September 27, 2002 |

$1.3 Billion Tobacco Attorney Fee Overturned

A nearly $1.3 billion attorney fee award -- the largest issued out of the 1998 national settlement of state litigation against the tobacco industry -- was overturned Wednesday by a Manhattan Supreme Court justice. He ruled that the arbitrators' award to lawyers who handled a private attorney general's action in California should have been restricted to work performed "in connection with" the California litigation.
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August 25, 2011 |

Outside Judges Are Well Prepared for WTC Reargument

For the first time in a decade, outside judges joined the Court of Appeals for an oral argument yesterday so that the Court could muster a majority. Both Justices A. Gail Prudenti, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, and Thomas E. Mercure, acting presiding justice of the Third Department, asked numerous questions of the litigants' lawyers during the 50 minutes the Court allotted for discussion.
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July 30, 2008 |

New Late-Notice Rule in N.Y. Shifts Burden to Insurer to Prove Harm

Starting in mid-January 2009, New York will bar personal injury or wrongful death insurers from disclaiming coverage due to a late notice of claim, filed within two years of an accident, unless insurers were "materially prejudiced" by the delay. The new law also allows injured parties, where coverage is disclaimed for late notice, to seek declaratory judgments in personal injury or wrongful death cases to determine the extent of defendants' insurance coverage and whether suits are worth pursuing.
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November 15, 2010 |

Family Trumps Love of Law for Departing Justice

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July 11, 2002 |

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In a tense court session Wednesday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos told lawyers for six law firms that were awarded $625 million for their work in the historic 1998 tobacco settlement in no uncertain terms that he will examine whether the fee award is unethical.
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July 25, 2007 |

Ford Can't Claim 'Federal Officer' Status in Defense of Landfill Suit

Ford Motor Co. and other defendants in a suit over landfill contamination can't claim they were akin to "federal officers" in their efforts to comply with consent orders to remediate a Superfund site, a federal judge says.
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