Marianna Wharry

October 08, 2024 | Law.com

"All things being considered, fifty custodians certainly provide a reasonable opportunity—at the very least—for the plaintiffs to reasonably investigate their case. Adding three or four in-house counsel to that list is out of proportion to the needs of the case. The aphorism, 'the book is not worth the candle' is not out of place here," wrote U.S. District Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole for the Northern District of Illinois.

By Marianna Wharry

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October 04, 2024 | Law.com

A Chicago federal judge preliminarily approved a settlement providing $10 million in increased pension payments for Citgo retirees.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | Law.com

"If respondent's colleagues had believed him, and had hired him based on his statements during the interview, it would have damaged the criminal justice system," the hearing board's report said.

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

October 04, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"'Stereophonic' is undoubtedly a play based on plaintiffs' memoir 'Making Rumours' because substantial similarities exist between the two works, a reality that has been independently confirmed by those familiar with plaintiffs' book who have also had the opportunity to review the play," the complaint said.

By Marianna Wharry

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October 01, 2024 | Law.com

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York, among others, voiced their support for the amended standard requiring schools continue to improve access to legal education and the legal profession for all qualified aspiring lawyers.

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

September 30, 2024 | Law.com

The plaintiff had alleged that the defendants were liable for failing to give a so-called Upjohn warning, which is done when the interests of a company and an individual officer become adverse.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 26, 2024 | Law.com

"The question of whether retained counsel is financially interested in the outcome of the litigation may involve a wider range of materials than the retention agreement alone," U.S. District Judge Jeremy C. Daniel said. "For example, even if the agreement contains adequate safeguards, the arrangement may still violate DoorDash's due process rights if DoorDash presents evidence the city failed to exercise 'absolute and total control over all critical decision-making.'"

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 25, 2024 | Law.com

"Based on the numerous representations made to BlueRadios of the facts underlying the basis of the claims and well as the ability for them to independently discover any alleged issues with the patents as they were publicly visible, BlueRadios was on notice of their claims as of 2009 at the latest as no reasonable jury could find that BlueRadios acted with the requisite level of diligence in discovering the purported inconsistencies in ownership and inventorship underlying the basis for their claims," wrote U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper of the District of Massachusetts.

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

September 23, 2024 | Law.com

"It seemed to us from the beginning that this was a logical outcome after the legalization of recreational cannabis. We hold out hope for the cases where the search was allegedly justified by the smell of raw cannabis, which we expect to receive shortly," said the plaintiff's attorney, Bruce L. Carmen of Carmen Law Office in Cambridge, Illinois.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 18, 2024 | Law.com

The NextGen bar exam will replace the Uniform Bar Examination that West Virginia and North Dakota currently use and will serve as the basis for score portability between participating jurisdictions.

By Marianna Wharry

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