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By Marcia Coyle | May 19, 2017
Kerry Kircher and William Pittard, longtime former U.S. House lawyers , have seen their share of investigations. The two attorneys concede they have never seen anything quite like the Trump-Russia-Comey affair unfolding in the nation's capital. We reached out to Kircher and Pittard this week to get their thoughts on possible legal fights that could unfold in a process that history shows will take months, if not years, to resolve.
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By Max Mitchell | May 12, 2017
So-called independent medical exams are "far from independent," and so attorneys or their associates should be allowed to accompany their injured clients during those exams, a plaintiffs attorney argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 9.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 11, 2017
Months after Apple faced off with the FBI over an order to unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooting investigation, Amazon.com Inc. was thrust center-stage in its own digital privacy debate when Arkansas prosecutors demanded data from a murder suspect's Echo device. Amazon initially objected to the demands last year, only to later grant access after the suspect consented to the release of the data. Speaking Thursday at a Consumer Federation of America conference in Washington, an in-house lawyer at Amazon stated flatly: "No, Echo is not spying on you."
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By Charles Toutant | May 8, 2017
A restaurant is not liable to a patron whose left leg was amputated after she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria from eating raw shellfish there, a federal judge in Camden ruled.
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By Andrew Denney | May 5, 2017
If you're out on parole, an ankle bracelet with a GPS tracker may not be the ideal accessory to wear when meeting with suspected gang members. But in this case a judge said federal agents went too far by using the data without a warrant.
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By ROBERT STORACE | May 1, 2017
The ACLU of Connecticut filed a Freedom of Information Act request April 26 to all Connecticut police departments seeking every alternative, police-commissioned study of traffic stop data.
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By Lizzy McLellan | April 28, 2017
A Montgomery County judge has ruled in Bill Cosby's criminal case that prosecutors may reference evidence from a 2005 civil deposition in which Cosby admitted to using Quaaludes to have sex with a woman. But other references to the civil case will be prohibited.
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By Andrew Denney | April 27, 2017
A medical malpractice defendant cannot submit into evidence Facebook posts of the plaintiff allegedly discussing his physical activity because the defendant was unable to produce the person who printed out the posts to be deposed, a state appeals court ruled.
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By Rhys Dipshan | April 27, 2017
Guidance Software and kCura look to play to each other's strengths to tap the demand for comprehensive review solutions.
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By Jason Grant | April 26, 2017
A medical malpractice plaintiff cannot assert a new liability theory after the doctors and hospital she sued presented prima facie evidence that her hearing loss was a reasonable result of surgery, a Manhattan appeals court has ruled.
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