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Automating the Practice of Law
In 2005, a year that lacked a court decision that shook the bar, a seismic shift in the business cycle or an overshadowing personality, the inexorable march of technologies was the sometimes-subtle story of the year. Here's a look at the major stories and newsmakers.Uncertain Nature of Liability in A Private Spill Act Suit
Joint and several vs. several: Do defendants have to clean up the whole mess, or just some of it?Fertilizer Manufacturers Not Liable for World Trade Center Bombing
Fertilizer manufacturers can't be held legally responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City even if it could be shown that they had known for years how to make a product that wouldn't detonate when combined with fuel oil, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. ``Manufacturers have no duty to prevent a criminal misuse of their products which is entirely foreign to the purpose for which the product was intended,'' U.S. Circuit Judge Jane R. Roth wrote.N.J. Law Is Not the Law of Choice
The majority of federal courts in New Jersey have held that the law of the consumer's home state should be applied when a product is purchased in that state and the seller has a corporate place of business in New Jersey. Adoption of this majority rule may present a barrier to class certification as applying so many different standards is unwieldy and impracticable.How To Recognize and Remedy an Unauthorized Financing Statement
There are ways to recognize the false UCC-1 financing statement scheme and minimize the disruption and expense caused by bogus UCC-1 financing statements.Getting Harder To Blame It on the Bank
Two recent cases have diluted a defense often used by defendants attempting to resist or otherwise delay foreclosure proceedings by claiming that the lender failed to comply with N.J.'s Fair Foreclosure Act.Trigger-of-Coverage for Employment Claims
Coverage in employment cases: continuous trigger vs. manifestation trigger.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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