By Ian Lopez | June 23, 2017
Exterro's spring 2017 recap of e-discovery case law highlighted changing views on technology in litigation.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Trial court erred in relying on a local rule in denying appellant's petition to vacate an arbitration award and not issuing a rule to show cause because the local rule constrained the discretion of the trial court and appellant's petition, alleging that it was denied the right to an opportunity to be heard when the arbitration panel decided the matter without a hearing, was not insufficient as a matter of law. Reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Husband's failure to make minimum monthly payments on an equitable distribution award constituted contempt, and wife was entitled to judgment for total unpaid installments, plus attorney fees. The issue of double-dipping from the same resource to pay support and the property division payments could have been addressed by a modification proceeding, which husband failed to pursue.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Insurer reimbursement rates were exempt from disclosure under Right-to-Know Law because insurer was statutorily required to submit them to Insurance Department, and thus department was construed to have "requested" the documents. Order of the Office of Open Records reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Plaintiff sufficiently plead at least two potentially successful claims against defendants for fraud and negligent misrepresentation; therefore, defendants failed to satisfy their heavy burden of persuading the court that plaintiff fraudulently joined them as part of his lawsuit to defeat diversity jurisdiction. The court granted plaintiff's motion to remand.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Plaintiff's motion for contempt based on the allegation that defendants continued to use the original name of their pharmacy after it had been found to violate the Lanham act failed because the only evidence presented was an undated advertising postcard. Motion denied.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 23, 2017
Trial court properly found mother in contempt for relocating with the children in contravention of an order directing compliance with §5337 but trial court erred in finding her in contempt for enrolling child in preschool because there had been no legal determination of custody and abused its discretion in changing custody as a contempt sanction because there was no express notice that custody would be at issue. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 23, 2017
Despite 'Group Pleading' Default Judgment Granted As to Liability on Lanham Act, Breach Claims
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 22, 2017
Firm Barred From Asserting 'Known' Fraud Claim It Did Not List as Asset in Bankruptcy
By Amanda Bronstad | June 22, 2017
Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal scored a game changing win in a SCOTUS case that fundamentally alters the growing practice of mass tort litigation--starting right now. How'd he do it? Hint: “It's not like I sit in my room and read the briefs.”
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