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Magistrate Refuses To Sanction Bankrupt Company For Production Failures
DANVILLE, Va. - A federal magistrate judge in Virginia has denied one tobacco company's attempt to collect more than $78,000 in attorney fees as a sanction from a bankrupt tobacco company for...
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Countrywide Reaches $500M Settlement In Mortgage-Backed Securities Class Actions
LOS ANGELES - Countrywide Financial Corp. will pay $500 million to shareholders in three related securities class action lawsuits to settle claims that it misrepresented the investment quality of...
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7th Circuit: Security Expert Wrongly Barred From College Dorm Rape Case
CHICAGO - A premises liability expert's methodology was reliable in determining that a college failed in its duty to a student who was raped in her dorm, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel...
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New Jersey Judge Deems Blogger To Be Journalist And Protected By Shield Law
ELIZABETH, N.J. - A blogger has made the necessary prima facie showing that her online posts qualify as journalism per the standards of Too Much Media LLC v. Hale (206 N.J. 209 $(2011$)), a New Jersey...
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Floodwall Was 'Disaster Waiting To Happen,' Judge Says, Finds For United States
NEW ORLEANS - The actions of the Army Corps of Engineers in supervising the remediation project executed by Washington Group International Inc. (WGI) along the East Bank Industrial Area (EBIA) did not...
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Federal Circuit Affirms Noninfringement Finding In Favor of Walmart
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California federal judge did not err in granting Walmart.com USA LLC a summary judgment of noninfringement, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 16 in a dispute...
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G-I Holdings Settles Environmental Claims For Tennessee Site
NEWARK, N.J. - Reorganized Chapter 11 debtor G-I Holdings Inc. will pay $129,000 to settle claims related to environmental damage at a Tennessee site, according to a stipulation and order entered April...
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Court Finds Insurance Broker Liable To Insured For Breach Of Contract,...
NEW YORK - An insurance broker breached its contract and acted negligently in failing to notify an insured that no policy existed for a certain period during which allegations that it solicited...
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Bankruptcy Judge: Insurer's $378M Fraud Case Against JPMorgan Stayed
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The federal bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 9 proceeding of Jefferson County, Ala., on April 15 ruled that an insurer who alleges that it was fraudulently induced to...
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California Panel: Refusal To Operate On Patient With HIV Violated Civil Rights
VENTURA, Calif. - A California appellate panel on April 17 ruled that denying a woman surgery based on her HIV-positive status and was a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Maureen K. v. Theodore...
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FDIC's Breach Suit Against Closing Agent Can Continue, Judge Rules
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judge in the District of Columbia on April 17 denied dismissal of a suit in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, as the receiver for a failed bank, alleges that a...
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Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Be Denied In Debt Collection Suit
WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal magistrate judge in Delaware on April 16 recommended that a consumer's motion for default judgment be denied because the consumer has failed to plead any of his state or...
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2nd DePuy ASR Hip Trial Ends In Defense Verdict For Johnson & Johnson
CHICAGO - An Illinois state court jury on April 16 found in favor of DePuy Orthopedics Inc. in the second ASR XL metal-on-metal hip lawsuit to go to trial (Carol Strum v. DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., et...
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6th Circuit: MDL Plaintiffs' Claims Tolled By Prior Class Action
CINCINNATI - A prior putative class action against a membership program preserved the right of the plaintiffs in the present multidistrict litigation to proceed with their claims challenging the same...
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Federal Judge: Bond Exclusion Bars Coverage For Claims Against Management Firm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Final judgment was entered in favor of an insurer on April 15, three days after a California federal chief judge held that an insurance policy's bond exclusion bars professional...
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11th Circuit: Property Sale Proceeds Belong To Estate Of Chapter 7 Debtor
ATLANTA - A panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 16 ruled that the sale proceeds resulting from a transaction that was agreed to prior to a debtor's Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition...
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Judge Dismisses Majority Of Claims In Enhanced Sweetener Case
SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers challenging supposed health benefits of enhanced artificial sweeteners under the unfair competition law (UCL) fail to allege a long-running advertising campaign, bring...
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Federal Circuit Affirms Construction, Finding Of Disclaimer In Patent Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California federal judge properly construed a disputed patent term as narrowed by the doctrine of prosecution history disclaimer, a divided panel of the Federal Circuit U.S. Court...
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$9.5 Million Cash Settlement Approved In Bar Review Antitrust Action
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in California on April 15 preliminary approved a $9.5 million settlement of a class action brought by law students against West Publishing Co. and Kaplan Inc. for...
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Federal Judge Dismisses Unjust Enrichment Claim From Bank's Default Suit
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A federal magistrate judge in Alabama on April 15 granted summary judgment to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. on its breach of contract claim but dismissed the unjust enrichment claim from a...
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