Riley Brennan

November 02, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

"This is a reminder that the purpose of RICO is to protect unsuspecting victims such as Shin Da Enterprises from unscrupulous businesses set on undermining them through a web of deceit," said Kang Haggerty principal Edward Kang via a press release.

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November 02, 2023 | Law.com

The complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

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November 01, 2023 | Law.com

"We have not hesitated to hold that personal jurisdiction satisfies due process when a defendant's communications to decisionmakers in the forum state led to the plaintiff's firing," the appeals court said.

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October 31, 2023 | Law.com

"Our review of R.C. 4165.03 supports this conclusion. In construing statutory terms, courts read statutes as a whole and do not dissociated words and phrases from their context. ... Looking at the language of R.C. 4165.03 as a whole, we are persuaded that 'prevailing' in the context of the DTPA means that the party obtained judgment in its favor, regardless of whether the party obtained a remedy in furtherance of that judgment," Judge Jennifer Kinsley wrote.

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October 30, 2023 | Law.com

"The proceeds of such lawsuits are akin to trust funds held for the statutory beneficiaries. Nothing in the will and trust statutes prohibits the transfer of expected proceeds into a trust," said Justice Yvonne Kauger. "Prohibiting such a transfer would be counterintuitive to the nature of an estate trust, and our prior treatment of wrongful death proceeds."

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October 30, 2023 | Law.com

"Although certain [Northern Arapaho Business Council] members expressed dissatisfaction with the format of [Baldwin, Crocker & Rudd's] bills, none of these witnesses offered any evidence [the firm] was paid for work it did not perform," the court said.

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October 30, 2023 | Law.com

"The shackles could have suggested the court was concerned she would experience a violent outburst, or more problematically, their appearance after opening statements could imply Reese exhibited some conduct between opening statements and the beginning of testimony that necessitated shackling," said Judge Konduros. "Consequently, the potential impact on the jury was far greater than the PCR court's order suggests."

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October 30, 2023 | Law.com

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the criminal conviction of a man who filed fraudulent loans in order to obtain PPP funds during the pandemic and dismissed allegations that his counsel was ineffective.

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October 30, 2023 | Law.com

While an intermediate appeals court found the defendant's offer to live with her son "forever" if he killed his father didn't constitute a "thing of value" within the meaning of the state law, RCW 9A.28.030(1), the state Supreme Court disagreed, reinstating her conviction for criminal solicitation.

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October 27, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

"As related to ERISA, the law has favored insurers for a long time, and this Order helps to swing back the pendulum towards plaintiffs," said Lewis' attorney, Zachary Lipschutz of Martin Law.

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