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California Appeals Court Affirms Hospital Has No Duty To Prevent Balance Billing
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A California appeals court panel held in a May 9 unpublished opinion that a hospital has no duty to inform patients admitted to the emergency room that emergency room physicians do...
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Judge Compels Arbitration Of Employment Dispute With Hong Kong Entity
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri federal judge on May 10 refused to remand an employment-related suit filed by the former CEO of an outdoor equipment maker but compelled arbitration of the dispute after...
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5th Circuit: Prison Warden Failed To Prove Firing Was Caused By Age Bias
NEW ORLEANS - A former prison warden failed to show that the reason provided for his termination - poor performance at his facility - was actually pretext for age discrimination, the Fifth Circuit U.S....
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Magistrate Judge Finds Good Cause To Permit Discovery In Ohio File-Sharing Case
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A copyright holder has sufficiently established good cause sufficient to serve subpoenas on the Internet service providers (ISPs) of 36 Doe defendants suspected of participating in...
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Ranbaxy Pleads Guilty, Pays $500M To Settle Federal Adulterated Drug...
BALTIMORE - The American subsidiary of Indian drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. on May 13 agreed to pay $500 million in criminal fines and civil penalties and to plead guilty to seven counts of...
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11th Circuit Affirms Damages, Reverses Fee Ruling In Trademark Case
ATLANTA - A Florida judge abused his discretion in failing to discuss and apply the correct standard in denying a prevailing trademark infringement plaintiff permanent injunctive relief, the 11th...
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Split 4th Circuit Says BAPCPA Does Not Bar Lien-Stripping For Chapter 20 Debtors
RICHMOND, Va. - A split panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 10 ruled that a bankruptcy court properly affirmed a debtor's Chapter 13 payment plan despite the trustee's argument...
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Federal Judge Grants Chase's Request To Set Aside Foreclosure Stay
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A federal judge in Tennessee on May 9 granted JPMorgan Chase Bank NA's (Chase) motion to set aside an order staying foreclosure proceedings, as well as the bank's motion for summary...
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Peregrine Financial Trustee: Commodities Customer Class Action Should Be Stayed
CHICAGO - The trustee in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of former financial company Peregrine Financial Group on May 8 filed an adversary complaint in a federal bankruptcy court against a class of former...
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U.S. Trustee In GSC Group Case Says Financial Adviser Should Return $8.95M In...
NEW YORK - The U.S. trustee in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of GSC Group Inc. on May 13 filed a brief in further support of a motion seeking disgorgement of $8.95 million in fees by GSC's financial...
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Texas Appeals Panel: No Evidence Defendants Knew Mall Floor Was Wet
BEAUMONT, Texas - The Ninth District Texas Court of Appeals on May 9 affirmed summary judgment for the defendants in a premises liability action, agreeing that the plaintiff failed to show that the...
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Wisconsin Senate Considers Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Bill After Assembly Passage
MADISON, Wis. - Legislation dictating disclosure of asbestos personal injury trust claims and providing liable defendants with offsets for recoveries from those trusts passed the Wisconsin Assembly May...
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Government Must Convince 2nd Circuit To Stay Order For Plan B Contraceptive
NEW YORK - The federal government will be forced to make its case for a permanent stay of a court order lifting all restrictions on Plan B emergency contraceptives after a Second Circuit U.S. Court of...
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Federal Circuit Affirms Trade Commission In Patent Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The International Trade Commission (ITC) properly found that a domestic industry does not exist, nor is in the process of being established, for two patents that cover a method for...
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Tenn. Federal Jury Awards More Than $1.5M In EEOC Harassment, Retaliation Suit
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Tennessee federal jury on May 9 awarded more than $1.5 million in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against New...
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Class Of Food Stamp Applicants Certified In Dispute Over Timely Processing
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Connecticut federal judge on May 13 certified a class of Connecticut residents who applied for food stamps and whose applications were not timely processed as required under...
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Underlying Suit Must Be Decided Before Coverage Can Be Resolved, Judge Says
SAN FRANCISCO - A California federal judge on May 9 granted an insured's motion to stay a coverage suit filed by one of its insurers after determining that the underlying suit must be resolved before...
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Committee Movants In Rothstein Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Want Subpoenas Quashed
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A group called the Committee Movants in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler (RRA), the former law firm of convicted Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein, on...
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Magistrate Judge Limits Request For Deposition Witnesses From Government
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal magistrate judge in the District of Columbia on May 13 ruled that the federal government should produce a witness for a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) deposition...
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Florida Federal Judge Dismisses Flight Attendant's Lawsuit For Lack Of...
ORLANDO. Fla. - The chemical exposure personal injury lawsuit of a flight crew member against the manufacturers of the aircraft on which he worked was dismissed May 10 in the U.S. District Court for...
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