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Aleeza Furman is a Philadelphia-based litigation reporter with The Legal Intelligencer. Contact her at [email protected].
April 10, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"The big hurdle was your classic big company that just used their resources to basically call into question a very real, nice legitimate person," the plaintiff's lawyer said.
By Aleeza Furman
3 minute read
April 9, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Congress can't do it the way it did it here, where it's telling Pennsylvania, 'You have to make law the way we, Congress, tell you to,'" Jonathan Lowy, an attorney with Global Action on Gun Violence representing the plaintiffs, contended.
By Aleeza Furman
4 minute read
April 8, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Now that we have two solidly reasoned opinions by the trial court in Caranci and Martel, we look forward to appellate review of the two key bellwether cases, which will then set a template and guidance for future Roundup rulings and trials," Kline & Specter partners Thomas Kline and Tobi Millrood, who represent the plaintiff, said in an email.
By Aleeza Furman
4 minute read
April 8, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
The 11 cases set to go before the justices touch on a range of impactful issues, including federal authority to shape tort law, insurance coverage for COVID-19 business interruption claims, and the burden of proof required to demonstrate rule violations in lawyer discipline matters.
By Aleeza Furman
5 minute read
April 3, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"What's at stake is the question of what the proper application of the forum non conveniens doctrine is and what it's going to be going forward," said David Senoff, a partner at First Law Strategy Group.
By Aleeza Furman
3 minute read
April 2, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"They wanted this trial," Becker said. "Now they come to you crying for the unfairness of it all."
By Aleeza Furman
3 minute read
April 1, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Within the next several months, the court will be closing the Risperdal, Essure and Elmiron mass tort programs, as the lawyers and self-represented parties work through the remaining cases on the docket," Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Complex Litigation Center, said.
By Aleeza Furman
4 minute read
March 29, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"This allegedly new evidence of fraud undermines the very existence of an enforceable settlement agreement and, in fact, makes any such agreement, if one existed, voidable, not enforceable," Judge Nitza Quiñones Alejandro ruled.
By Aleeza Furman
4 minute read
March 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
The ruling reduces the $25 million punitive damages award in Clemmons v. Lehr to $1 million, shrinking what had been one of the court's largest verdicts of 2023 to a total of $2.2 million.
By Aleeza Furman
3 minute read
March 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"The city's refusal to timely pay counsel fees and legally mandated statutory interest is pervasive for court appointed attorneys in Philadelphia," one attorney wrote in a motion for contempt. "This practice is unfair to both attorneys and clients, undermines the effective assistance of counsel, as well as the administration of justice."
By Aleeza Furman
6 minute read
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