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May 27, 2011 |

More Than 1,100 Brave Humidity for Annual Bar Association Run

On May 15, about 1,500 people participated in the 32nd Annual Philadelphia Bar Association Charity Run, which benefits the Support Center for Child Advocates.
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September 28, 2012 |

Bank of America Settles Merrill Lynch Claims For Record $2.4 Billion

Bringing to a close the highest-profile lawsuit to emerge from the credit crisis, Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle alleged federal securities law violations related to the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in 2009.
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September 28, 2012 |

Bank of America settles Merrill Lynch claims for a record $2.4 billion

Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle alleged federal securities law violations in Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in 2009.
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July 31, 2007 |

Judge Finds Tobacco Settlement Bars Claims for Punitive Damages

A federal judge has ruled that New York's participation in the nationwide $208 billion settlement reached in 1998 between 46 states and the tobacco industry bars subsequent claims for punitive damages in smokers' damage actions in New York. The judge also rejected a design-defect theory that led to a $20 million verdict against two cigarette manufacturers in a separate 2005 state case. More than $17 million of that verdict stemmed from an award of punitive damages.
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October 01, 2012 |

Bank of America Settles Securities Class Action Over Merrill Lynch Acquisition for $2.4 Billion

Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle alleged federal securities law violations in Bank of America's acquisition of Merril Lynch & Co. Inc. in 2009.
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January 14, 2005 |

Baer v. Chase et al

The New Jersey Supreme Court would hold that ideas lose their novelty if they are in the domain of public knowledge before use and, therefore, plaintiff's ideas, based on stories and facts in the public domain, could not have been misappropriated; although the District Court correctly concluded that the contract claims were unenforceable, it erred in applying the "sham affidavit" doctrine, and summary judgment on the quantum meruit claim is reversed.
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Fourth Time Is No Charm: After Three Years and Four Amended Complaints, Five Consolidated ARS Cases Against Citi Are Tossed for the Last Time
Publication Date: 2011-03-02
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The case is something of a monument to plaintiffs' futility in federal court ARS litigation.

May 04, 2012 |

Fisher & Phillips

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April 10, 2006 |

Tobacco companies handed a win; states may face $1B loss

By Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal Employing broad language, New York's Appellate Division, First Department, handed tobacco companies a victory Thursday by ruling that disputes over reductions in their payments to the states under a $206 billion nationwide settlement must go to arbitration.The ruling has enormous fiscal implications for the states since the reduction could amount to more than $1 billion a year.
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