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Ga. Justices Reboot Overdraft Fee Class Action Against SunTrust

In a case with implications for class actions and customer contracts in Georgia, the state's highest court revived a consumer class action challenging bank overdraft fees.
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Genelux Founder Allowed to Seek Fee Award

The Delaware Supreme Court has partly vacated a Delaware Chancery Court decision and allowed the founder of a biopharmaceutical company to pursue fees and expenses in a related bad-faith fiduciary duties suit against corporate directors.
14 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fourth District Reopens Negligent Security Case After High Court Ruling

The former owner of a Plantation apartment complex where two siblings were killed persuaded the Fourth DCA to reconsider the case after an adverse ruling by the Florida Supreme Court.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Rules Wrongful Death Case Can't Be Revived

A Manhattan judge has rejected a petition filed against New York County Clerk Milton Tingling by an attorney who alleged that a 2014 order in a wrongful death case was filed by an unauthorized Supreme Court employee.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawyers Get Fired Up at Administrative Hearing on Pot License

More than two years after lawmakers legalized a limited type of medical marijuana, an administrative law judge heard arguments in a dispute about whether a Northeast Florida nursery should receive one of the highly sought-after licenses to grow, process and distribute the noneuphoric pot.
11 minute read

The Recorder

City of Carlsbad v. Scholtz (Seapker)

4 minute read

Law.com

Chrysler Takes Aim at Georgia Trial Lawyer in $40M Appeal

The company's legal team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher says award was won with inapproprate appeals to the jury's distrust of corporations.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Contaminated-Clothing Doctrine in Asbestos Cases Extended

The precedent-setting New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that said spouses who became ill after handling the asbestos-tainted clothing of their partners could be awarded damages may be extended to offer protection to nonmarried couples or roommates, the court ruled.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

Settlement Quietly Ends Med-Mal Case That Led to $14M Verdict and 'Tortured' Appeals

A quiet conclusion has come for a case that led to one of 2013's biggest medical malpractice verdicts in Georgia—and a tangle of appellate litigation.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge: Columbia's Dismissal of Research Expert, a Key Witness at Silver Trial, Was Flawed

Columbia University fired a mesothelioma research expert who was a central prosecution witness in the criminal case against New York state's former Assembly speaker without following the school's own termination procedures for tenured faculty, a judge ruled.
9 minute read

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