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Motion To Compel Denied In $1.1 Billion In Patent Case
PITTSBURGH - Efforts by a defendant recently ordered by jurors to pay $1.1 billion in patent infringement damages to force a plaintiff to produce privileged documents were rejected Feb. 28 by a...
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Motions To Compel Production Granted In Part In Ohio PFOA Declaratory...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The magistrate judge presiding over the declaratory judgment and indemnification litigation filed by a southern Ohio water utility against DuPont for perfluorooctanoic acid...
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Zimmer Subsidiary Agrees To Produce Swiss Documents In Durom Hip MDL
NEWARK, N.J. - Zimmer GmbH, the Swiss subsidiary of Zimmer Holdings Inc., will not seek to remove cases in which it is named as a defendant to Switzerland and will voluntarily produce documents located...
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Predictive Coding: A Primer
By Amy Jane Longo and Usama Kahf Having gained judicial approval - or acknowledgement - in fewer than a handful of cases, the method for collecting and reviewing electronic documents for discovery...
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Judge Won't Alter, Amend Ruling In Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Lawsuit
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Ruling that a consumer in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) lawsuit against a law firm has not shown any "intervening change in the controlling law, new evidence...
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6th Circuit: Too Much Time Passed For Employee To Prove Retaliation
CINCINNATI - Years passing between when a school district employee won her gender discrimination claim and her removal from one of her posts dooms her claim that her removal was retaliatory, the Sixth...
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La. Federal Judge Dismisses Class Claims Accusing Viking Of Faulty Products
NEW ORLEANS - A Louisiana federal judge on March 20, following the guidelines in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (131 S.Ct. 2541, 2550 $(2011$)), dismissed class action allegations accusing Viking Range...
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AED Failures Prompt FDA To Require Premarket Approval Of Emergency Heart Devices
ROCKVILLE, Md. - After receiving about 45,000 reports of failures of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) over an eight-year period, the Food and Drug Administration on March 22 proposed that...
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Judge Permits Arbitration In Dispute Over Coverage For Sexual Harassment Award
SAN FRANCISCO - A standstill agreement entered into by the operator of a hospital and its insurer did not "supplant the parties' preexisting arbitration agreement" but served primarily to shield the...
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Insurance Broker's Former Employee Alleges Sufficient Contract Claim, Judge Says
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former employee of an insurance broker sufficiently asserts a claim for breach of contract against his former employer for terminating his benefits under a departure agreement, a...
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Judge Preliminarily OKs Settlement Of Shareholder Case With Directors, Officers
DENVER - A shareholder and certain of a company's directors and officers on March 19 were granted preliminary approval of their settlement agreement by a Colorado federal judge, who found that the...
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English Court Orders Contractors To Pay 39,487 Pounds For Asbestos Failures
LONDON - The United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on March 20 announced that an English magistrates' court fined various firms for exposing Royal Navy personnel to asbestos-insulated pipes...
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Federal Judge Partially Dismisses FDIC Action Against Escrow Agent
CHICAGO - A federal judge in Illinois on March 4 dismissed two counts from a suit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. filed as the receiver for a failed bank alleging that an escrow agent breached its...
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Federal Judge Denies Judgment In FDIC's Suit Against Appraiser
OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal judge in California on March 7 denied cross-motions for summary judgment in a suit in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as the receiver for the failed IndyMac Bank...
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Federal Magistrate Judge Rules In Favor Of Loan Officer In Discovery Dispute
DETROIT - A federal magistrate judge in Michigan on March 14 denied the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s motion for a protective order prohibiting the discovery of 12 loan files in a suit the FDIC, as...
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Federal Judge Says Nonwritten Agreements No Basis For Suit Against FDIC
JACKSON, Miss. - A federal judge in Mississippi on March 18 dismissed a property investment firm's suit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as the receiver for a failed bank, finding that the...
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ARS Antitrust Claims Against Broker-Dealers Fail, 2nd Circuit Rules
NEW YORK - The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 5 affirmed the dismissal of Citigroup and other financial institutions from two putative class actions that alleged that the financial...
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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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District Court Properly Dismissed Student Loan Suit, 11th Circuit Rules
ATLANTA - A district court properly dismissed claims alleging that the U.S. Department of Education and others violated a student loan borrower's due process in its attempts to collect on the loan, the...
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6th Circuit Affirms Rulings Against Student Loan Debtor
CINCINNATI - The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 12 affirmed a district court's judgment affirming a bankruptcy court's order granting summary judgment in favor of Educational Credit...
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