By Saranac Hale Spencer | January 29, 2015
A federal judge in Pittsburgh has taken the unusual step of tossing the class allegations from a suit brought by neighbors of a coal-fired power plant before they had even moved for class certification.
By Joel Stashenko | January 29, 2015
With Sheldon Silver no longer at the helm of the state Assembly, criminal justice and court advocates say they're anxious about how new leadership in the chamber will affect the judiciary, civil and criminal legal services providers and other areas of the legal system.
By Gina Passarella | January 29, 2015
Post & Schell's reevaluation of its place in the larger insurance-defense market over the last few years has resulted in partner defections, shifts in internal leadership and changes to other firms that have grabbed Post & Schell attorneys.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | January 29, 2015
Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. David Kessler testified Thursday in Philadelphia's first Risperdal trial that Johnson & Johnson knew about the drug's ability to raise levels of the hormone that causes male breast growth.
By Samantha Joseph | January 29, 2015
Miami attorney Lida Rodriguez-Taseff has received an interim sanction barring her from practicing in the Southern District of Florida's bankruptcy court until April 30.
By Mark Hamblett | January 29, 2015
Continuing to publish accurate arrest stories after a criminal conviction has been erased from the record is not libelous, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
By Jennifer Peltz and Andrew Keshner | January 29, 2015
For centuries, grand juries have held some of the criminal justice system's best-kept secrets. But their private process has come under extraordinary public scrutiny after recent decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed men, causing a closely-watched court battle and a batch of proposed reforms in New York state.
By Gina Passarella | January 28, 2015
The Third Circuit has reinstated more than $137,000 in fees owed to Fox Rothschild, as counsel to the trustee of a bankrupt media enterprise, over what the court found were vexatious allegations by the debtor's counsel that the firm and the trustee orchestrated a bribery scheme.
By Saranac Hale Spencer | January 28, 2015
Challenges to reverse-payment settlements—the deals made by major pharmaceutical companies with generic drugmakers in order to keep the cheaper drugs off the market—don't have a new threshold to meet, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled in an opinion defining the contours left open in a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.
By Saranac Hale Spencer | January 28, 2015
The grocery stores and restaurants that have alleged price-fixing among the country's major egg producers can present an economist as an expert witness while they seek to get class certification, the federal judge handling the case has ruled.
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