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October 21, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Recoveries of $1 Million or More

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September 15, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Top 20 Personal Injury Awards

Here are the largest personal injury awards reported by the Law Journal from September 21, 2009, through September 6, 2010, ranked in order of their value as of date of verdict or settlement. Awards of the same value share a ranking. They do not include arbitration awards or unilateral decisions by governmental entities to compensate injured parties, nor do they include uncollectible judgments. Awards for multiple parties are ranked by their lump sum value.
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March 22, 2012 | National Law Journal

Objector: Bluetooth deal remains 'poster child for class action abuse'

A lawyer whose objection to a settlement in the Bluetooth hearing-loss litigation prompted a federal appeals court to reject the deal has renewed his protest, arguing that the deal continues to demonstrate self-dealing between plaintiff attorneys and the defendants.
4 minute read
February 15, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Bluetooth litigants defend settlement against 9th Circuit's qualms

Lawyers on both sides of a settlement over hearing loss claims involving Motorola's Bluetooth headsets are insisting the attorney fees were not inflated, despite concerns voiced by a federal appeals court that rejected the deal last year.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit tossed out the settlement on Aug. 19, 2011, concluding that U.
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December 05, 2006 | Law.com

Class Preclusion Clauses Struck Down by Superior Court

Ruling on an issue of first impression, a Superior Court panel has agreed with a Philadelphia common pleas judge's argument that class litigation preclusion clauses in standard-form contracts are unconscionable and unenforceable.
5 minute read
August 07, 2012 | Law.com

Judge slashed Bluetooth fees that 'no reasonable' client would pay

A federal judge has slashed by more than half the plaintiffs fees in a closely watched consumer class action involving Bluetooth headsets, concluding that "no reasonable paying client" would pay such an amount.
6 minute read
March 31, 2004 | Law.com

Latex Products Liability Suit Pre-Empted, Judge Rules

Latex glove manufacturers chalked up a significant victory when a federal judge in Pennsylvania threw out a products liability suit brought by a health care worker after finding that her implied warranty claims are pre-empted by the federal Medical Device Amendments. The ruling is sure to be cited by defense lawyers in other pending latex glove cases because it effectively declares that the gloves are "fit for the ordinary purpose for which they are sold."
4 minute read
January 30, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Pa. Judge: Arbitration Clauses Won't Stick to Contracts of Adhesion

The judge in charge of Philadelphia's class action program has ruled that class action litigation preclusion clauses in contracts of adhesion are "unconscionable and unenforceable." In his strongly worded opinion, Judge Mark I. Bernstein concluded that the mandatory individual arbitration clauses found in many contracts of adhesion have served to "immunize large corporations from liability by allowing them to preclude all class action litigation."
5 minute read
September 07, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

Suits & Deals

Large settlements and verdicts in New Jersey courts.
6 minute read
April 13, 2010 | Law.com

Plaintiffs Lawyers Seek New Trial After Contrite Juror E-Mails to Say He Changed His Vote

A plaintiff whose $1.3 million asbestos claim was no-caused by a New Jersey jury has asked for a new trial because a juror confessed he switched his vote at the end of the 10-hour deliberation, saying that otherwise, "we would've never gotten out of there." The e-mail, sent to plaintiffs lawyers six days after the verdict, included expressions of sympathy and sorrow and barbs against other members of the jury panel, though it's hard to glean from the message exactly what did happen.
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