Daily Business Review | Letter to the Editor
By Jonathan Schuman | May 17, 2018
To the Editor:Your recent article on physical therapists versus acupuncturists (Acupuncturists, Physical Therapists Battle Over Treatment, May…
By Amanda Bronstad | May 16, 2018
Christopher Wylie, a research director at Cambridge Analytica from 2013 to 2014, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the firm, co-founded by Steve Bannon, who was campaign manager and later a top White House strategist for President Donald Trump, came up with phrases like “drain the swamp” that became key campaign themes and slogans.
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida | May 15, 2018
The decision Friday by the Third District Court of Appeal in a Miami-Dade County shooting case came a week after another appeals court ruled on similar issues in a Hillsborough County case.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Tal J. Lifshitz and Rachel Sullivan | May 15, 2018
Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect on Dec. 1, 2018, subject to Supreme Court approval and arguably no substantive area of law will be more impacted than federal class action litigation, in particular, the procedures for addressing objections to class settlements.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 14, 2018
The bill would require disclosure of third-party litigation funding in class actions and multidistrict litigation within 10 days of a case filing, or 10 days after a funding deal. It would also require disclosure of financing that provides cash to plaintiffs.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Howard J. Bashman | May 14, 2018
A little over two weeks ago, The New York Times published a lengthy editorial titled “Please Stay, Justice Kennedy. America Needs You.” The passionate editorial correctly explained that were President Donald J. Trump to replace Kennedy with a more dependable conservative on the U.S. Supreme Court, then various of Kennedy's most notable rulings in the areas of abortion rights, affirmative action in college admissions, and equal rights for LGBTQ individuals would be at serious risk of being overruled.
By Tony Mauro | May 14, 2018
The justices in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association found the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act infringed on state sovereignty. The decision could transform sports and sports gambling from coast to coast.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Clay Flaherty | May 11, 2018
As the number of municipalities filing lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies related to the ongoing opioid crisis continues to multiply, a quiet doctrine of Pennsylvania case law might undercut the ability of local governments to ultimately recover damages.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Jacob Inwald | May 11, 2018
Budget legislation recently signed by the Governor introduced an important new pre-foreclosure notice specifically addressing defaults triggering reverse mortgage foreclosures affecting senior homeowners, while also making a technical fix to changes governing pre-foreclosure notices and settlement conferences for reverse mortgages that were signed into law in 2017.
By Greg Land | May 11, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that punitive damages a probate judge entered against the conservator could not be levied against the insurance company that provided the surety bond.
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