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Court Sets Aside Settlement by WorldCom's Directors
The $54 million settlement between class action plaintiffs and 10 former WorldCom directors collapsed Wednesday. A federal judge's rejection of a key provision left plaintiffs with "no choice but to terminate the settlement" because they couldn't take the risk that a jury verdict might be reduced by an amount higher than the settling directors' ability to pay, said a plaintiffs' attorney. If the case goes to trial, it will be the largest securities class action to go before a jury.
Court Allows Testifying Doctors to Rely on Third-Party Records
Jeffrey S. Siegel, a partner at Bruno, Gerbino & Soriano, and Mitchell S. Lustig, an associate at the firm, write that in a recent decision that is an obvious boon to the New York no-fault insurer, the Appellate Term, Second Department, expressly allowed a peer review doctor to testify based upon review of medical records prepared by third-party providers that were not in evidence, despite the hearsay objections of the plaintiff's counsel.Commonwealth v. Sanders, PICS Case No. 12-0470 (Pa. Super. Feb. 29, 2012) Bowes, J. (18 pages).
There was sufficient evidence to support the verdict, it was not against the weight of the evidence and the trial court properly instructed the jury regarding the prior identifications in this case involving an out-of-court identification of appellant where the witness was being prepared for surgery, had no memory of the interaction with police and his mother signed his name on the photographic array. Judgment of sentence affirmed.Justice's former voting rights chief now in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP - The former chief of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Section, who stepped aside in December after apologizing for remarks about minority voters, is now working on election-related issues for the Alabama Law Institute.John Tanner, who is being paid by the Justice Department under a federal program, also will teach at two Alabama law schools.
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Deportation Without Representation
To deal competently and fairly with the millions of foreign nationals living here who may be subject to removal, a competent corps of lawyers is needed, and Congress should consider how to finance it.Mother, boyfriend charged in 2-year-old's death
ATLANTA AP - The mother and boyfriend of a 2-year-old Atlanta boy have been charged in the toddler's death.Atlanta Police arrested 23-year-old Gloria Singleton and 20-year-old Mario Cunningham Monday night. Each were charged with cruelty to children, felony murder and giving a false name.Authorities said the boy was found dead Friday in a motel bathtub.
Is a teen's IMs with adult males admissible in court?
A state supreme court is considering whether a man convicted of sexually assaulting his girlfriend's daughter should have been allowed to introduce sexually explicit instant messages that the girl sent to other men.Lawyers Committee Announcement Upstaged by Themselves
Just after 11 a.m. last Wednesday the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs announced a "historic settlement" with only two reporters there to hear the details. The Lawyers Committee had been upstaged by a simultaneous press conference being held just a few hundred yards away on the other side of Dupont Circle by . . . the Lawyers Committee.Trending Stories
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