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Maryland Court Rejects Damages For Plaintiffs Never Officially Added To Action
BALTIMORE - The statute of limitations bars recovery by plaintiffs named but never officially added to four consolidated asbestos actions, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals held May 2 (The Wallace...
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Travel Agency Employees Awarded More Than $20M For Harassment, Retaliation
TAMPA, Fla. - A Florida federal jury on April 30 awarded eight former travel agency employees, in a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a total of $20,251,963 based on their...
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Reorganization Plans For GIT, NARCO Become Effective
PITTSBURGH - The plans of reorganization for refractory products manufacturers Global Industrial Technologies Inc. (GIT) and North American Refractories Co. (NARCO), which include multimillion-dollar...
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Conn. Federal Judge Denies Alternative Punitive Damages In Prempro Cancer...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Connecticut federal judge on May 2 denied a Prempro breast cancer plaintiff's request to enter an alternative judgment on punitive damages (Margaret B. Fraser, et al. v. Wyeth,...
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Justice Finds Chevron Has No Canadian Assets To Pay $18.2 Billion Ruling
TORONTO - A Canadian judge on May 1 stayed an action filed by a group of Ecuadorian claimants in relation to alleged environmental exposures, finding that Chevron Corp. has no assets in Canada to...
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Patent Claim For More Than $4.12 Million Against K-V Discovery Is Valid, Lab...
NEW YORK - A pharmaceutical laboratory on May 1 filed a brief opposing bankrupt K-V Discovery Solutions Inc.'s attempt to reclassify certain bankruptcy claims, arguing that it has a valid claim for...
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No Coverage For Underlying Negligence Suit, Missouri Panel Says
ST. LOUIS - An insurer has no duty to defend its insureds against an underlying suit because the underlying suit's allegations of negligence are based on intentional conduct, which is not covered by...
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Judge Approves $1.9M Settlement To Resolve Suit Over Fly Ash Pollution
GREENBELT, Md. - A federal judge in Maryland on May 1 approved a $1.9 million settlement between GenOn Maryland Ash Management LLC and the State of Maryland Department of the Environment over the...
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Merck, Kentucky To Discuss Global Resolution Of Vioxx Consumer Lawsuit
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. and the Kentucky Attorney General's Office have agreed to discuss global resolution of the state's Vioxx consumer lawsuit, according to a federal court...
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Federal Judge Denies Insurer's Summary Judgment Motion Regarding Defense,...
ORLANDO, Fla. - A commercial general liability insurer's summary judgment motion regarding its duty to defend and indemnify an underlying construction case is premature, a Florida federal judge ruled...
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Judge Denies Temporary Restraining Order Against Insurance Agency, Agents
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal judge in California on April 30 denied an application by insurance companies for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against an insurance agency and agents regarding...
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Illinois Judge Dismisses Copyright Case On Jurisdiction Grounds
CHICAGO - An action brought pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was dismissed April 9 by an Illinois federal judge, who found that a defendant website is not subject to personal...
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7th Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Copyright Claims Filed By Estate
CHICAGO - An Illinois federal judge did not err in rejecting allegations of copyright infringement and breach of fiduciary duty levied by the estate of a bluesman, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of...
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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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New York Judge Sides With Recording Label In Copyright Case
NEW YORK - A service that touts itself as a "marketplace for 'pre-owned' digital music" suffered an adverse summary judgment ruling on April 1 by a New York federal judge, who instead found in favor of...
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2nd Circuit Affirms Denial Of Injunction In Video Transmission Case
NEW YORK - Finding no error in a New York federal judge's application of Cartoon Network LLP v. CSC Holdings Inc. (536 F.3d 121 $(2nd Cir. 2008$)) (Cablevision), a divided Second Circuit U.S. Court of...
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Ohio Judge Severs Defendants In BitTorrent Copyright Case
TOLEDO, Ohio - A copyright infringement lawsuit brought against 25 John Doe defendants must proceed as 25 separate actions, according to an April 10 ruling by an Ohio federal judge (Night of the...
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2nd Circuit Vacates Copyright Holding In Light Of Supreme Court Ruling
NEW YORK - Acting on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 23 reversed course, holding that the first sale doctrine is available to a copyright...
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Magistrate Won't Quash Subpoena Of Online Streaming Firm's Google AdWords...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The plaintiff broadcasters in a copyright infringement lawsuit have sufficiently shown that discovery information sought via a subpoena on Google Inc. is relevant to their claims...
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6th Circuit Affirms: Widow Lacks Standing In Copyright Dispute
CINCINNATI - A widow's efforts to set aside a default judgment entered in a copyright infringement action in which she was not a party were unsuccessful on May 1, when the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of...
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