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The Legal Intelligencer

Baylsons Win Venue Fight in Dragonetti Action

The state Superior Court has granted a request by Dr. Frances Batzer Baylson and her husband, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson, to transfer back to Philadelphia their Dragonetti suit over litigation involving Batzer Baylson's business contracts to store frozen sperm.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Chief Judge Scolds Lawyers in $1.25M Default Debacle

3rd DCA Judge Frank Shepherd implied precedent compelled him to favor a negligent lawyer over an attorney who made questionable moves “for reasons known only to him.”
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

JQC Formally Drops Ex-Judge Pollack Probe

The state Judicial Qualifications Commission ends its investigation of former Broward County Court Judge Gisele Pollack, who is subject to a Florida Bar ethics probe.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Charges Revived Against Driver in Officer's Highway Death

A man who allegedly caused two car accidents can be held criminally liable for the death of a police officer who arrived on the scene and was hit by another car, a Brooklyn appellate court has decided.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Says Divorce Counsel Should Be Disqualified

A Second Department panel, reversing the trial court, said that while disqualification generally falls within the court's discretion, the "very appearance of a conflict of interest" in a divorce case "was alone sufficient" to warrant disqualification of the wife's attorney.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Kaplan Tells Terror Defendant U.S. Gave Him a 'Fair Shake'

Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan made clear to admitted al Qaida spokesman Adel Abdel Bary that he was lucky to get a plea bargain that capped his sentence and could allow him to leave prison in less than nine years.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Takata MDL Packaged and Sent to Florida

Nationwide litigation over Takata air bags, which are alleged to explode unprompted, ejecting metal debris, has been consolidated in the Southern District of Florida.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ex-Anchor's Case Against CBS, Former Co-Anchor Revived

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reinstated former CBS news anchor Alycia Lane's lawsuit against CBS and former co-anchor Larry Mendte over his hacking of Lane's emails and CBS's failure to stop him.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Rules for Defendant in Porn Copyright Case

An anonymous pro se defendant has beaten copyright infringement claims brought against him in federal court by a maker of pornographic videos. The defendant's victory runs counter to the result in a similar case in front of a different Eastern District judge.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Nassau Lawyer Suspended Over Hiring of Disbarred Attorney

Dean Gary Weber, a Westbury solo bankruptcy attorney, has been suspended for two years for hiring an "old law school friend" who had been disbarred and letting him practice under an assumed name.
5 minute read

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