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Motions To Share Discovery, Sanction Plaintiffs' Counsel Denied In Iraq War...
PORTLAND, Ore - The magistrate judge presiding over the personal injury lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon by Oregon National Guard members for hexavalent chromium...
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Veterans, United States Supplement Oral Arguments In Weapons Testing Lawsuit
OAKLAND, Calif. - The United States and the plaintiffs representing some 100,000 veterans of Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency experiments that exposed the veterans to biological...
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Railroad Companies Challenge Medical Monitoring Claim In Paulsboro Derailment...
CAMDEN, N.J. - Railroad companies named as defendants in the Paulsboro, N.J., derailment cases consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey filed a reply brief March 28 in...
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Refinery Fire Lawsuit Removed From Louisiana Court, Consolidated With Class...
BATON ROUGE, La. - A putative class action filed against the owner and operators of a chemical refinery for the release in March 2012 of vinyl chloride was removed April 2 to the U.S. District Court...
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11th Circuit Certifies Questions To Florida High Court In Employers Liability...
ATLANTA - The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 15 certified three questions to the Florida Supreme Court in a third party's lawsuit seeking employers liability coverage for an underlying...
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Several Claims By Direct Purchasers In Pool Products Antitrust MDL Continue
NEW ORLEANS - Direct purchasers of pool products failed to state claims asserting per se illegal boycott and monopolization but sufficiently stated rule-of-reason and attempted monopolization claims to...
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Class Certification Vacated In Disability Education Suit; Reconsideration...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 12 vacated the class certification order in a lawsuit over the education provided to disabled children within the...
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Res Judicata Bars Insured From Bringing Separate Suit Against Insurer, Judge...
SEATTLE - Because a policyholder could have brought contractual and state law claims against her insurer in a previous lawsuit in which coverage matters were determined, a Washington federal judge on...
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'Thorough investigation' By Insurer Leads Judge To Dismiss Bad Faith Claim
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Although a Tennessee federal judge on April 11 found that a policyholder's breach of contract claim survived his insurer's dismissal motion, the judge disposed of an accompanying bad...
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Bankrupt Firm Charged With Corruption To Pay $2.6M To State Of New Jersey
TRENTON, N.J. - Bankrupt Birdsall Services Group Inc. (BSG) on April 15 reached an agreement with the State of New Jersey under which it will pay $2.6 million to settle claims the state made against...
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4th Circuit Affirms Bankruptcy Court Ruling That Conflict Of Interest Not Shown
RICHMOND, Va. - A panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 11 affirmed a bankruptcy court's ruling that there was no conflict of interest in a company's bankruptcy proceeding because...
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Bankruptcy Judge Approves Deal Between Nortel, Retired Employees
WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware on April 2 approved bankrupt Nortel Networks Inc.'s deal with the committee representing retired employees that will terminate retiree welfare...
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Judge Upholds Bankruptcy Court's Finding That Prepetition Fine Has Priority
CONCORD, N.H. - A federal judge in New Hampshire on March 25 affirmed a bankruptcy court's order finding that a fine for contempt of court that was assessed against the bankrupt owners of three...
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Trinity Place Argues Bankrupt Clothing Store Syms Not Responsible To Pay Rent
WILMINGTON, Del. - Trinity Place Holdings Inc., an entity formed out of bankrupt Syms Corp., on April 11 filed a brief in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, arguing that Syms...
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5th Circuit: Bankruptcy Court Erred; Creditor's Liens Not Valid And Enforceable
NEW ORLEANS - A panel of the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals on April 5 ruled that a bankruptcy court erred when it found that creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding had valid mechanic's liens...
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7th Circuit Rules Destitute Debtor's Student Loan Obligations Discharged
CHICAGO - A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 10 ruled that a debtor's student loan obligations were discharged because she is destitute, with no likelihood of changing her...
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7th Circuit Reverses: Delay In Naming Trustee Did Not Extend Limitations Period
CHICAGO - A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 8 reversed and remanded a bankruptcy case, ruling that the statute of limitations for filing avoidance claims was not extended as...
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Government Asks 4th Circuit To Find Act Bars Challenge To Health Act Provision
RICHMOND, Va. - The federal government on April 4 asked the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to find that the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA) bars a pre-enforcement challenge to the employer...
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Catholic Groups Ask D.C. Appeals Court To Reverse Dismissal Of Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Plaintiffs challenging a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) mandating that all health plans provide preventive services for free, including those for...
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Indiana Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction In Birth Control Suit
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - An Indiana federal judge on April 1 granted a construction company's motion for a preliminary injunction in its case challenging a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable...
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