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January 30, 2006 |

Pa. Judge: Arbitration Clauses Won't Stick to Contracts of Adhesion

The judge in charge of Philadelphia's class action program has ruled that class action litigation preclusion clauses in contracts of adhesion are "unconscionable and unenforceable." In his strongly worded opinion, Judge Mark I. Bernstein concluded that the mandatory individual arbitration clauses found in many contracts of adhesion have served to "immunize large corporations from liability by allowing them to preclude all class action litigation."
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August 05, 2013 |

$10 Million Suit Against DeHeng Is Dismissed

A federal judge in New York ruled that neither the Chinese firm nor one of its partners had acted with scienter, or knowledge of wrongdoing, in an alleged fraud.
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October 31, 2005 |

Court Denies Liability For Asbestos Exposure

An employer may not be held liable for a non-employee spouse's secondhand exposure to asbestos, the Court of Appeals held Thursday in reversing an appellate panel. By a 6-0 vote, New York's high court concluded that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owed no duty of care to a woman who was allegedly injured through laundering her husband's asbestos-contaminated clothing for 30 years.
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December 11, 2009 |

Suits & Deals

Large verdicts and settlements in New Jersey.
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October 31, 2005 |

Court Denies Liability for Asbestos Exposure

An employer may not be held liable for a non-employee spouse's secondhand exposure to asbestos, the Court of Appeals held Thursday in reversing an appellate panel. By a 6-0 vote, New York's high court concluded that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owed no duty of care to a woman who was allegedly injured through laundering her husband's asbestos-contaminated clothing for 30 years.
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November 01, 2005 |

N.Y. Judge Denies Liability for Asbestos Exposure

An employer may not be held liable for a non-employee spouse's secondhand exposure to asbestos, the Court of Appeals held Thursday in reversing an appellate panel.
4 minute read
April 08, 2010 |

The Case of the Contrite Juror

A plaintiff whose $1.3 million asbestos claim was no-caused by a jury has asked for a new trial because a juror confessed he switched his vote at the end of the 10-hour deliberation, saying that otherwise, "we would've never gotten out of there."
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June 21, 2010 |

Into the wild

Profile of Polaris Industries Inc.'s Stacy Bogart.
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January 27, 2006 |

Bernstein Ruling: Arbitration Clauses Won't Stick to Contracts of Adhesion

The judge in charge of Philadelphia's class action program has ruled that class litigation preclusion clauses in contracts of adhesion are unconscionable and unenforceable.
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May 12, 2004 |

News In Brief

Galli Reilly Merges with Goldfein Joseph
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