By Amanda Bronstad | September 26, 2018
At times against the objections of the lawyers, particularly for the defense, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Margaret Oldendorf interviewed jurors, reiterated jury instructions, ordered more oral arguments and replaced a juror with an alternate.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By David S. Carton and Lynne Strober | September 20, 2018
The legislature added the language “with neither party having a greater entitlement to that standard of living than the other.” What does that change, in fact, mean?
By Andrew Denney | September 18, 2018
In one of the biggest settlement agreements reached in New York for survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has agreed to pay $27.5 million to four persons who alleged they had been abused as children by a volunteer at the St. Lucy-St. Patrick's church in Brooklyn, the plaintiffs' lawyers in the case said Tuesday.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | September 18, 2018
Nearly three years after Philadelphia juries awarded compensatory damages in two Risperdal cases, a judge has ordered that the cases proceed to new trials on whether the drugmaker's conduct merits punitive damages.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Barry J. Schindler, James J. DeCarlo and Smit Kapadia | September 14, 2018
On Aug. 10, 2018, the USPTO released its first update to the Trial Practice Guide since its initial publication in August of 2012. Practitioners appearing before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should follow these guidelines as they offer new tools and highlight important caveats.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas Cotton | September 14, 2018
New Jersey had not taken a strong position on narrative interrogatories generally or Rule 4:17-4(d) specifically. That changed with 'Brugaletta.'
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Christopher M. Placitella and Jared M. Placitella | September 7, 2018
OP ED: In reiterating the law governing expert testimony in New Jersey, the Accutane decision does not break new ground in terms of how lawyers should approach expert testimony.
By Charles Toutant | September 4, 2018
"We hold that the FCA's public disclosure bar is not implicated in such a circumstance, where a relator's non-public information permits an inference of fraud that could not have been supported by the public disclosures alone."
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis
By Max Mitchell | August 30, 2018
According to the Third Circuit, the practice of snap removals—where defendants remove cases to federal court even before they have been served—is fair game.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher Walsh | August 30, 2018
New rules, in effect as of Sept. 1, are designed to make case management and discovery in complex commercial and construction cases more efficient.
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