By Katheryn Tucker | November 27, 2017
“It's becoming more OK to talk about it,” a Georgia prosecutor said, adding that predators have long isolated their targets with silence by threatening denial, shame and harm. “If we as a society can become—not comfortable—but willing to discuss these difficult topics, then that is the first step in getting them to stop.”
By Celia Ampel | November 27, 2017
The Florida Bar argues Gerson and co-counsel Steven Hunter should face a 30-day suspension for alleged conflicts of interest in a secondhand smoke case.
By Angela R. Matney, Hirschler Fleischer | November 27, 2017
In the wake of suits filed against Equifax by consumers, businesses and governmental units, courts have to grapple with the question of what remedies are appropriate.
By Josefa Velasquez | November 22, 2017
The state's Court of Appeals ruled that the Battery Park City Authority is a government entity and didn't have legal standing to challenge Jimmy Nolan's Law, a 2009 state law that gave workers who toiled in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, an extra year to file claims against the authority.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | November 22, 2017
Houston property owners who suffered flood damage have brought "takings" claims against the government.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas A. Dickerson | November 22, 2017
Thomas Dickerson writes: This year, the Appellate Division, First Department sought to protect shareholder interests in “merger tax” litigation by enhancing the standards for the approval of disclosure-only class action settlements, and sought to protect employees by declining to enforce an arbitration agreement as violative of the National Labor Relations Act. But that's not all.
By Rhys Dipshan | November 22, 2017
Forever 21 customers may be facing a host of financial fraud problems, but it is far from certain whether they can take the retailer to court.
By Ross Todd | November 21, 2017
Investors had accused the online review site of propping up its earnings by coercing businesses into buying ads to get fake negative reviews removed.
By Erin Mulvaney | November 20, 2017
Lawyers for Google Inc. argue a class action that accuses the company of pay discrimination casts too wide a net with overbroad claims of alleged gender inequities and unfair promotion opportunities for women.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 20, 2017
Lawyers representing a plaintiff class made up of persons alleging they got sick from exposure to formaldehyde gas in laminate flooring insist they were cut out of last month's $26 million class action settlement with Lumber Liquidators and want a federal judge to reject the deal.
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