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New Cases on N.J. Supreme Court's Docket Test Privilege, Deposition Boundaries
Aggressive lawyering at two of New Jersey's high-profile litigation firms is under attack in cases the state Supreme Court has added to its agenda for the new term. A case in which Sills Cummis & Gross is facing sanctions and disqualification gives the court an opportunity to make significant refinements in the law governing companies' control over employees' electronic communications. At issue in a case against Bruce Nagel of Nagel Rice is whether he or his client should pay a frivolous pleading fee award.As Date With Playmate Approaches, High Court to Ponder Jurisdiction Issue
This Tuesday's arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on a federal jurisdiction matter are apt to attract a somewhat different audience for such an issue. That's because Playmate Anna Nicole Smith is due to attend, in connection with a judgment awarding her millions from her husband's estate. Legal obervers are split on whether the circus atmosphere that often surrounds Smith will be a concern for the justices as they consider whether federal courts have jurisdiction in state probate matters.CA Justices Back Online Retailers Over Cardholder Data
No statutory penalties are available when online retailers ask for personal information, Goodwin Liu concluded, because the state's consumer protection law was written before such transactions could be envisioned.Landlord wins $1.5M in suit for back rent
Following a bench trial held in installments on four separate days over a three-week period, a Fulton County magistrate ruled that a once-prosperous mortgage brokerage must pay its landlord more than $1.5 million in damages and nearly $157,000 in attorney fees for defaulting on its lease as the bottom fell out of the real estate market.Supreme Court tackles patentability of scientific phenomena
Tony Mauro, Legal TimesSupreme Court justices appeared reluctant Tuesday to decide a key patent law case in a way that would, as one justice put it, establish "monopolies in this country beyond belief" over naturally occurring phenomena. Justice Stephen Breyer expressed that concern during oral arguments in Laboratory Corp.Texas Justices Sidestep Sophisticated-User Issue in Silicosis Case
After a wait of almost two years, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled 6-2 in a silicosis case that a flint supplier had no duty to warn a company of the risks of working around silica dust because those risks had been commonly known for years. However, the court left unresolved a key issue: whether the "sophisticated user doctrine" relieved the supplier of a duty to warn its customers' employees that inhaling silica dust can be fatal.Bankrupt Landlord's Sale Terminates Leases
We frequently see cases involving bankrupt tenants and their rights to terminate leases. It is less common to see cases that involve the effect of a landlord's bankruptcy on tenants' rights.Trending Stories
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