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Federal, State Judges Team Up to Settle Suits Over Vitamin Supplement
In an unusual pairing, a Georgia judge assisted an Alabama federal judge in mediating settlements in more than 200 suits in which plaintiffs said liquid vitamin supplements made them ill. Plaintiffs complained that after taking Total Body Formula liquid supplements, they experienced ailments like prolonged and painful fingernail and toenail loss, and severe joint pain and muscle cramps. Some consumers later experienced severe kidney problems and associated health problems. The company recalled the products in 2008.Plaintiff awarded $350K in rape suit
Following a hard-fought seven-day, three-way trial, a Fulton County jury reached a what several lawyers called "a compromise verdict" and awarded $350,000 to a woman who said she was brutally raped and robbed at the Cotton Mill Lofts in Cabbagetown in 2004.Jurors held the woman's attacker and property management company Aderhold Properties Inc.In Suit Against Lawyer, Court Rules That Loans Were Securities
An Atlanta lawyer could be on the hook for millions of dollars as the result of a recent state Court of Appeals decision about lawsuits brought by disappointed investors.Blood test error is worth $5.4M, Fulton jury says
A Fulton County jury last week awarded more than $5 million in a case that is the worst nightmare for anyone who has ever gritted his teeth and looked away as a medical technician poked around trying to draw blood.
Legal malpractice suit: Labor lawyer double dipped
A woman who said her attorney double-dipped by collecting a 40 percent contingency fee as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional legal fees has filed a suit including claims of legal malpractice, fraud and racketeering against Atlanta employment law attorney Lisa Millican (above) and her firm, Greenfield Millican.Six IP litigators from Sutherland join Kasowitz
John L. North and five other intellectual property litigators from Sutherland have joined Kasowitz, Benson, Torres Friedman, a litigation firm with offices in Atlanta, New York, Miami, Houston, San Francisco and Newark, N.J.North and Jeffrey J. Toney joined Kasowitz's Atlanta office as partners from Sutherland, along with special counsel Laura Fahey Fritts and Jonathan K.
Contempt Power Curtailed: High Court Says Deposition Perjury Didn't Hinder Trial Judge's Duties
Bad news for lawyers who expect witnesses to testify truthfully in depositions: The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a civil trial judge abused her discretion by holding a litigant in contempt for repeatedly perjuring himself during a deposition, because the lies did not obstruct the operation of the court. Rob Gilbreath (pictured) represents the man who had been charged with perjury in the case.Fulton judge orders damages retrial in $3.7 million blood-draw case
A Fulton County judge has tossed out a $3.7 million award that a jury granted to a man injured by a technician attempting to draw blood, ordering a new trial solely on the amount of damages.TRENDING STORIES
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