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Judge: Staff's Smoking Did Not Violate Prisoner's Constitutional Rights
MILWAUKEE - A pro se prisoner's constitutional rights were not violated by secondhand smoke from prison staff, according to a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, who...
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Sales Restrictions On Flavored Tobacco Are Not Preempted, 2nd Circuit Rules
NEW YORK - Restricting the sale of flavored tobacco products to certain retail outlets in New York in an effort to prevent minors from buying them is not tantamount to regulating how those products are...
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Public Relations Firm Bears Liability For Misleading, California Plaintiff...
SAN FRANCISCO - A smoker who sued several companies in California federal court over the development of lung cancer says in a Feb. 27 brief that public relations company Hill & Knowlton Inc....
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Judge Orders Pa. To Restore Tobacco Settlement Money To Low-Cost Health Program
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania state court judge on March 4 permanently enjoined the governor from enforcing two state laws that took away tobacco settlement money from a low-income health insurance...
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Manufacturers Settle Over Contributions From Nonparticipating Companies
RICHMOND, Va. - Cigarette manufacturers participating in the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) have reached an agreement with 17 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico over longstanding...
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Federal Judge Affirms Denial Of Injunction In Prison Smoking Claim
BECKLEY, W. Va. - A West Virginia federal prison inmate who says his religious rights as a "New Age Druid" are infringed by his inability to obtain tobacco was denied a preliminary injunction or...
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Companies Use Colors To Dodge Marketing Bans, Harvard Study Says
LONDON - Cigarette companies are using color designations to circumvent bans on marketing cigarettes as "light" or "low tar," according to a study led by the Harvard School of Public Health and...
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MF Global SIPA Trustee, JPMorgan Reach Deal To Return $300M To Customers
NEW YORK - The Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) trustee in the MF Global Inc. (MFGI) bankruptcy on March 19 announced that he had reached a settlement agreement with JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A....
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Federal Circuit Says No Subpoenas In Re-examination Proceedings
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Virginia judge properly quashed two subpoenas issued pursuant to 35 U.S. Code Section 24 in an inter partes re-examination proceeding, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals...
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Freddie Mac Sues LIBOR Panel Banks And Others Over Losses
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Member banks of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) panel and certain of their subsidiaries violated federal antitrust laws by manipulating and suppressing the LIBOR, which...
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Securities Class Action Settlements Reach 14-Year Low, Cornerstone Report Shows
BOSTON - Although 2012 saw the number of securities class action settlements reach a 14-year low, the total settlement dollars for the year increased by more than 100 percent over 2011, according to a...
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Judge's Transfer Requires Necessity, Not Economy, 9th Circuit Chief Says
SAN FRANCISCO - A chief federal appeals judge has turned down the offer of a multidistrict litigation judge to preside over remanded cases in litigation over motor fuel temperature sales practices,...
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Magistrate Judge Finds Government Properly Asserted Deliberative Process...
TRENTON, N.J. - A federal judge in New Jersey on March 19 granted the majority of a motion for a protective order filed by the federal government in a $24 million Comprehensive Environmental Response,...
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Golf Car Crash Victim Loses Experts; Federal Judge Grants Defendants Judgment
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A federal judge in New York on March 18 found unreliable accident reconstruction experts hoping to testify in a products liability case on behalf of a teen who was paralyzed when his...
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Adjuster's Report Was Not Written Confirmation Of Tornado Loss, Judge Affirms
WAYCROSS, Ga. - A Georgia federal judge on March 20 entered judgment in favor of an insurer after affirming the U.S. Department of Agriculture's finding that the insured failed to provide timely notice...
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Judge: Third-Party Beneficiary Cannot Pursue Negligence Claim Against...
BALTIMORE - A third-party beneficiary of a life insurance policy cannot bring a negligence claim against an insurance agent, a Maryland federal judge ruled March 19, dismissing the claim; however, the...
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Florida Federal Judge Dismisses False Claims Suit For Lack Of Specifics
FORT MYERS, Fla. - A federal judge in Florida on March 19 dismissed a federal False Claims Act (FCA) suit against Health Management Associates and one of its hospitals, saying the relator failed to...
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Peregrine Trustee Wants To Examine Former Accountant Regarding CEO's Fraud
CHICAGO - The trustee in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of former financial company Peregrine Financial Group Inc. on March 19 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois for...
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Panel: Investor Failed To Plead Misrepresentation In Securities Lawsuit
NEW YORK - A federal judge in New York properly dismissed a shareholder's complaint against Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. and others because the shareholder failed to plead a material...
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9th Circuit Reverses Dismissal Of Dispute Over 'Red Gold' Mark
SAN FRANCISCO - A California federal judge erred in dismissing allegations of trademark infringement because he disregarded prima facie evidence of trademark validity, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of...
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