Emily Cousins

June 04, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"This (would not be a) ruling on the substance of plaintiffs' claims," Tiseme Zegeye of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, said. "This is determining where the lawsuits will play out. ... It's the first step in figuring out where these cases move forward and how they're going to play out."

By Emily Cousins

3 minute read

June 03, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The majority ruled that in order to vacate an arbitration award, it must violate public policy. But since the criminal charges against the employee, a university administrator, had been dismissed, it could not dislodge the award.

By Emily Cousins

6 minute read

May 31, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Using social media and other means, (the defendant) was able to create a dossier on the plaintiffs and use their past trauma for his personal enjoyment," the complaint alleged.

By Emily Cousins

4 minute read

May 30, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Hopefully, this verdict and other verdicts we've had will transcend to insurance companies to change the status quo," Jonathan Bak of the Flood Law Firm said.

By Emily Cousins

4 minute read

May 30, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Connecticut Supreme Court held that this case "is not the type of action the litigation privilege was intended to prevent—retaliatory actions for statements (or other communicative acts) occurring in the course of a judicial proceeding."

By Emily Cousins

4 minute read

May 28, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"The (prejudgment remedy) is what triggered the conversation for us to be able to get the defendant to pay something above and beyond the $1 million policy, because all other avenues were leading back to the $1 million policy itself," plaintiffs counsel Christopher Cramer said.

By Emily Cousins

3 minute read

May 24, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"The present case involves such a situation in which factual issues exist concerning the collision that preclude summary judgment," the opinion said. "Even if the collision occurred in the decedent's lane, that does not eliminate all allegations of negligence in the complaint."

By Emily Cousins

4 minute read

May 24, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"I like decisions like this that help us understand how the rules work and what kind of conduct will violate a rule," ethics expert Mark Dubois said. "The purpose of lawyer discipline is general deterrence so that all of us who labor in the vineyards know where the lines are, what to watch out for."

By Emily Cousins

5 minute read

May 22, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"This is 10 years after that election happened before we got this result," plaintiffs' counsel Charles Miller of the Institute for Free Speech said.

By Emily Cousins

4 minute read

May 22, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Teva stifled would-be generic competitors to QVAR because the drug laws do not allow for generic substitution of a given drug-device combination unless the generic is approved for that specific drug-device combination," the complaint alleged.

By Emily Cousins

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