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Bush Plan to Limit Class Action Suits Moving Fast
Efforts to curb class action suits advanced Thursday as backers of legislation pushed by business and the Bush administration foiled initial attempts to alter a carefully crafted compromise. The Senate Judiciary Committee left intact language that would send many class actions from state courts into federal court, despite Democrats' bid to use the bill to raise federal judges' pay. The committee approved the overall bill on a 13-5 vote. The Republican-controlled Senate will take it up next week.Chimp Attack Victim To Appeal Claims Commissioner Ruling
A woman disfigured by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009 plans to appeal a decision denying her permission to sue the state on her claim that officials knew the chimp was dangerous.Earthlink subsidiary settles NY deceptive marketing case
Judge's Silica Order Could Affect Future Mass Tort Litigation
In a June 30 order that could impact future mass tort litigation, a federal judge accused screening companies, doctors and plaintiffs lawyers of being willing participants in a "scheme" involving approximately 10,000 plaintiffs diagnosed with silicosis.Court Seeks Billing Records From Attorney for Monied Spouse
Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Ecker has interpreted an amended provision in Domestic Relations Law to allow him to order the attorney for the monied spouse in a divorce action to disclose not only his total bill but also his billing records.View more book results for the query "*"
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Jerry M. Lehocky of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano is set to become president of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice on June 30.Senior Federal Judge Green Dead at 84
Senior U.S. District Judge Clifford Scott Green, one of the founding members of Philadelphia's most prominent black law firm in the 1950s and 1960s who went on to serve more than 40 years as a state and federal judge, died Thursday evening due to complications from a stroke. He was 84.The Supreme Court tightened the False Claims Act's bar on suits over publicly disclosed information back in May, when it ruled that a response to a FOIA request constitutes a pubic report. But some qui tam claims can survive a FOIA disclosure, as Manhattan federal district court judge Jed Rakoff reminded a pair of defendants on Friday.
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