The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | January 24, 2018
A Delaware County jury has awarded more than $40 million to the family of a 6-year-old who suffered a spinal injury during birth. According to attorneys representing the plaintiff, the award is the largest personal injury verdict from a Delaware County jury.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Sarah Cave and Terence Healy | January 24, 2018
Sarah Cave and Terence Healy examine how the proportionality standard under Rule 26 can be used to limit deposition discovery of the government in enforcement proceedings brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | January 23, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected a series of appeals aimed at blocking Sunoco from taking private land for its Mariner East 2 pipeline project.
By Greg Land | January 23, 2018
The lawsuit involves an assistant elementary school principal who was transferred to a low-performing school after being targeted with protests for teaching yoga-based "mindfulness" practices.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Richard J. Schager Jr. | January 23, 2018
Richard J. Schager Jr. writes: In a 4-3 decision last month, a divided New York Court of Appeals held that where an action brought as a class action is voluntarily dismissed, CPLR 908 requires both (1) judicial approval and (2) notice to the putative class, even where the class has not been certified, and even if no class certification motion has been made.
By Colby Hamilton | January 22, 2018
Arent Fox's Les Jacobowitz asked but no one—not class counsel, the judge, and certainly not the banks—had an answer. So he tried to answer the question himself, and in doing so hopes to convince Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald to blow up proposed settlements with the banks.
By Colby Hamilton | C. Ryan Barber | January 22, 2018
According to the SEC, former inspectors from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board used information about upcoming audit reviews to scrub their work on behalf of KPMG clients.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | January 22, 2018
When a district attorney dies in a smaller county in Pennsylvania, typically the office's first assistant is sworn in as the county's top law enforcement official. That process, however, did not happen after Susquehanna's district attorney passed away last month.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | January 22, 2018
An arbitrator handling a dispute between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98, the Democratic National Committee and several broadcast networks did not have the authority to determine whether that case could in fact be arbitrated, a federal judge has ruled.
By NJLJ Contributors | January 22, 2018
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