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Pet Treat Class Actions Transferred From California To Pennsylvania Federal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Class action lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging violations of consumer protection statutes and seeking damages in torts were...
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West Virginia Plaintiffs Ordered To Specify Claims In Natural Gas Fracking Suit
WHEELING, W.Va. - A motion to dismiss filed by a natural gas storage defendant in a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia lawsuit alleging methane contamination of a domestic...
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Copyright Case Between Home Birthing Bloggers To Be Dismissed Absent Good Cause
BOSTON - Rather than address the jurisdictional grounds for a midwife's motion to dismiss a lawsuit over a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice, a Massachusetts federal judge on...
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Fosamax Femur Fracture Experts Allowed In As 2nd MDL Trial Gets Under Way In...
TRENTON, N.J. - Two days into trial, a New Jersey federal judge presiding over the second Fosamax femur fracture trial denied Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp.'s motion to exclude causation testimony by four...
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U.S. Trustee Says Tribune Indenture Trustees Not Entitled To Fees
WILMINGTON, Del. - The U.S. trustee in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Tribune Co. on April 11 filed two briefs amending her objection to the Law Debenture Trust Company of New York (LDTCNY) and...
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3rd Circuit Adopts Virginia Supreme Court's Answer To Certified Question
PHILADELPHIA - A previous asbestosis diagnosis renders a subsequent Virginia action alleging mesothelioma untimely, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held April 11 in adopting the Virginia...
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Pennsylvania Federal Judge Denies Summary Judgment In Copyright, Trademark Case
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A dispute over the allegedly illicit reproduction of images from copyrighted journals will proceed to trial, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled April 10 (Elsevier Inc., et al. v....
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Judge: Apple Can't Rely On Some Prior Art In Pennsylvania Patent Case
PITTSBURGH - Efforts by defendant Apple Inc. to invalidate a patent suffered a setback April 11, when a Pennsylvania federal judge rejected as untimely Apple's citations to newly identified prior art...
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Illinois Judge Won't Sanction Patent Defendant Over Email To University
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An email sent by patent infringement defendant Micron Technology Inc. to faculty members at the University of Illinois, while a cause for concern, is not worthy of an injunction, an...
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9th Circuit Reinstates Police Officer's Free Speech, Retaliation Suit
PASADENA, Calif. - A California city police officer may proceed with his claims that his pay increase was delayed by the police chief in retaliation for free speech, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of...
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3rd Circuit Affirms Rejection Of State Police Officer's Constitutional Claims
PHILADELPHIA - A state police officer failed to prove his claims that his constitutional rights were violated when he was placed on restricted duty despite being acquitted of criminal charges filed...
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Judge Reduces Verdict For Employee Made Ill By Mold Exposure
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands - A Virgin Islands federal judge on March 22 refused a landlord's request for a new trial in relation to a verdict awarded to an employee of the Virgin Islands Bureau of...
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11th Circuit Upholds Rejection Of Engineer's Disability Bias, Retaliation Claims
ATLANTA - An engineer failed to show that he was discriminated against due to his disability or retaliated against when his request for an extension of leave from his employer was denied, the 11th...
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8th Circuit: Manager With Eye Injury Was Properly Terminated
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A direct food delivery company manager had no grounds to sue his former employer alleging that he was improperly terminated after sustaining an eye injury that prevented him from...
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7th Circuit Reinstates Indianapolis Employee's Bias, Retaliation Claims
CHICAGO - A former Indiana city employee may proceed with her discrimination and retaliation claims because a reasonable jury could find that there was a causal link between the termination and the...
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D.C. Circuit Reinstates Fannie Mae Employee's Federal Race Bias Claims
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Fannie Mae employee who alleges that he was subjected to racial bias and a hostile work environment may proceed to a jury trial with his federal claims, the District of Columbia...
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11th Circuit Affirms Judgment For Employer Accused Of Harassment, Bias
ATLANTA - A Georgia man failed to prove his claims of sexual harassment, gender bias and retaliation that he filed against his former employer, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 25,...
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Split 3rd Circuit Partially Reinstates Tyco Accountant's Whistle-Blower Suit
PHILADELPHIA - A former Tyco Electronics Corp. accountant may proceed with part of his whistle-blower suit claiming that he was terminated after questioning hundreds of thousands of dollars in...
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Company Appeals Reformation Of Contract Based On Union's 'Ambiguous' Evidence...
Case: Local Union 2-2000, of the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, et al. v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc.,...
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Tyson Appeals Donning And Doffing Verdict, Damages Under FLSA and Kansas Law
Case: Adelina Garcia, et al., individually, and on behalf of a class of others similarly situated v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al., Nos. 12-3346 and 13-3013, 10th Cir....(read more)
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