New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Samuel Estreicher and Peter Rawlings | April 30, 2024
A pending Second Circuit case will likely decide whether employers facing a preliminary injunction proceeding brought by the National Labor Relations Board can obtain court-sanctioned discovery from rank-and-file employees of their views of the "chilling effect" of particular employer actions on their willingness to support the union seeking to organize them.
By Ross Todd | April 30, 2024
Over the past couple of years we've written about what the relative dearth of cases proceeding to a jury verdict has meant for the trial courts and law firms. Our colleague Avalon Zoppo recently looked at what it means for appellate courts and the development of the law.
By Brian Lee | April 29, 2024
While Judge Caitlin Halligan has had to recuse from two high-profile cases, a court spokesman said the rule was in development before she joined the high court.
By Jimmy Hoover | April 29, 2024
The petitioners—Medical Marijuana Inc., Dixie Holdings LLC and the two companies' joint venture that launched Dixie X—argue that RICO does not allow plaintiffs to bring claims for civil damages stemming from a personal injury.
By Alex Anteau | April 29, 2024
"I was a little more concerned about the pictures because to me if you'd had any of the pictures that the city of Atlanta employees went out and took … showing the water meter lid, you could have had some demonstration of what it looked like irrespective of whether there's a possibility somebody some work or changed it on a day that we can't prove. Yet that's all gone," said Presiding Judge Sarah Doyle.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By William Ramos Vázquez | April 29, 2024
This article examines the recent Court of Appeals decision that addresses whether the plaintiff was engaged in the type of "repairing" activity that is covered by Labor Law §240(1). The case should be of interest to practitioners for the implications of the specific holding. However, it also provides a broader lesson on stare decisis.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Casey Alan Coyle and Michael Libuser | April 29, 2024
The fight is over legislation that prohibits the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (the department), the administrator of the lottery, from offering products that "simulate casino-style lottery games" as part of the iLottery program. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently construed the meaning of that phrase in Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment v. Department of Revenue.
By Allison Dunn | April 26, 2024
"A registered nurse may be qualified to attest that breach of applicable standards of nursing care for preventing and treating decubitus ulcers proximately caused the plaintiff's ulcer injury," Judge Donald E. Beachley wrote on behalf of the court.
By Brian Lee | April 26, 2024
The Appellate Division, Third Department acknowledged that the officer, at a minimum, had a "tangible connection" in helping evacuate the court building near the World Trade Center.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen A. Miller and Pamela Dorian | April 26, 2024
A pair of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court will shape the future of social media content. Both cases—Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton—present novel questions about the free speech protections available to social media platforms under the First Amendment.
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