By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | September 1, 2017
Defamation Was Not Personal Injury Tort With No Physical or Psychic Injury
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Appellant could not rely on 42 Pa.C.S. § 5103, which addresses the transfer of erroneously filed matters, to transfer his dismissed federal action to state court to seek relief from a zoning board decision after failing to appeal that decision to the trial court. The court affirmed the trial court's order.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Trial court properly refused to award counsel fees for in-house counsel because the loan document language referring to attorney fees, "hire or pay someone else," was ambiguous and had to be construed against the drafter. Affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
District Court properly found that appellant's facial challenges and its as–applied Fourth Amendment challenge to Delaware's escheats law were unripe but erred in finding that appellant's procedural due process claim was not justiciable because the claim satisfied all three 'Step-Saver' prongs. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Trial court correctly held that mother was in contempt of the court's order but erred in not imposing sanctions for mother's repeated, flagrant and ongoing contempt of orders related to child custody because no sanctions for flagrant abuse of court orders was an a abuse of discretion and father could challenge the order as a collateral order. Reversed in part and affirmed in part.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 1, 2017
Defendants' challenge to a confessed judgment based on venue failed where the plaintiff bank had the right, in accordance with the relevant loan agreements and attorney warrants, to bring any proceeding against a surety or the property of a surety in the courts of any jurisdiction. The court denied defendants' petition to strike and/or open a confessed judgment.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | September 1, 2017
Defamation Claim Failed; Plaintiff Did Not Contest Underlying Gist of News Article
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 31, 2017
Sanctions Award Affirmed Where Evidence Demonstrated Debtor's Intent to Hinder
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 31, 2017
Civil Contempt Granted Where Property Owners Failed to Stop Illegal Transient Use
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 31, 2017
Less Stringent Sanction of Adverse Inference Charge Appropriate for Not Preserving Emails
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