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August 05, 2009 | Law.com

Golf Course GPS Maker's Bankruptcy Filing Lands Midsize Firms in Sand Trap

The bankruptcy filing by Florida-based GPS Industries, a manufacturer of golf course global positioning systems, has left 17 firms bereft of more than $875,000 in legal fees. The bulk of the fees are owed to two midsize firms that represented the struggling company: TroyGould in Los Angeles and Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery in Chicago are out more than $815,000 in fees. In a quarterly filing with the SEC, the firms expressed doubt that the company would be able to stay in business.
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February 04, 2005 | Law.com

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.
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June 19, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

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.
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January 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Earthlink subsidiary settles NY deceptive marketing case

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July 11, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

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.
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November 26, 2012 | New York Law Journal

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.
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June 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

PLW - People in the News - June 25, 2013

Jerry M. Lehocky of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano is set to become president of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice on June 30.
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March 05, 2008 | The Recorder

In re Miracle M.

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June 04, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

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.
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FOIA Disclosures Don't Sink Whistleblower's Health Care Fraud Claims, Judge Rules
Publication Date: 2012-02-21
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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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