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September 28, 2009 |

Panel Rules Agency Rent Fraud Probe Is Not Time Barred

In instances where there are allegations of fraud or unlawful rent being charged by landlords, the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal can investigate even if the four-year statute of limitations for redressing such abuses has lapsed, a divided appeals court decided. writing for a 3-2 Appellate Division, First Department panel, Justice Rolando Acosta said that when fraud is alleged, the four-year statute of limitations for rent overcharges under the Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1997 and the Rent Stabilization Law are void.
6 minute read
July 08, 2013 |

Put Predictive Coding To Work To Save E-Discovery Costs

"[C]omputer-assisted review is an available tool and should be seriously considered for use in large-data-volume cases where it may save the producing party (or both parties) significant amounts of legal fees in document review."
4 minute read
September 17, 2007 |

Appellate TV

Debate over the wisdom of televising federal appellate arguments has focused, understandably, on the U.S. Supreme Court. The benefits of allowing the public to see how the highest court in the land engages counsel in arguments on issues of public importance would seem to be self-evident. The court, however, has long resisted cameras and television, while state supreme court appeals are increasingly making their way onto television.
7 minute read
August 17, 2011 |

Lawyer works $102 million sale of Florida Keys resort Cheeca Lodge

Andrew Mann represented longtime client Cheeca Holdings of Wyoming in its recent sale of the 27-acre, 214-room Cheeca Lodge & Spa in Islamorada, which has attracted numerous celebrities and dignitaries since its 1946 opening.
3 minute read
October 06, 2003 |

Continuity among 'Fortune' 250

Since 1988, The National Law Journalhas surveyed the law departments of the Fortune 250 companies, tracking which outside law firms they primarily use and noting any changes among the chief legal officers. This year we return to our long-time practice of reporting on who represents corporate America in several areas: litigation, corporate transactions, labor and employment and intellectual property.
5 minute read
January 05, 2006 |

Chirls, Merit Selection, Marked Year for Bar Association

2005 may not have been the year the Philadelphia Bar Association finally helped convince all the powers that be to embrace competitive business privilege tax reform, but this past year did see the bar join forces with some well-placed allies to get the ball rolling on judicial merit selection, one of its longest-standing causes.
7 minute read
August 30, 2013 |

Ex-EEOC GC on Background Checks in Hiring Decisions

Former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission General Counsel Donald Livingston discusses EEOC v. Freeman, which looked at whether use of criminal and credit background checks in hiring decisions is discriminatory.
5 minute read
May 22, 2012 |

Lehigh Co. Jury Sides With Plaintiffs for Surgical Eye Injury

A Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas jury awarded $2 million in noneconomic damages to a man and his wife because the man now has double vision and other eye injuries in the aftermath of a sinus surgery gone wrong.
3 minute read
November 09, 2010 |

9th Circuit Sides With Immigrant on Access to His 'A-file'

A panel led by Judge Andrew Kleinfeld halts deportation proceedings after citing unexplainable discrepancies in records that the government eventually provided.
3 minute read

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