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By Alex Anteau | April 30, 2024
According to the defendant-appellants, the plaintiff's demand was emblematic of a "set-up" offer by which an "attorney could … try to avoid a policy-limits settlement by sending a needlessly complicated demand with a myriad of confusing and seemingly trivial terms designed to elicit a rejection."
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By Aleeza Furman | April 30, 2024
"To provide much needed constitutional clarity after Mallory and conclusively resolve the jurisdictional status of nearly 90% of the total plaintiffs in the Paraquat mass tort program, this court should grant Syngenta Crop's petition for permission to appeal," the defendant argued.
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By Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. | April 30, 2024
We are encouraged by, and very grateful for, Chief Judge Wilson's expressed "hope that, in coming years, we will receive even more civil motions and criminal leave applications, and that we will have the opportunity to decide even more appeals."
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By Samuel Estreicher and Peter Rawlings | April 30, 2024
A pending Second Circuit case will likely decide whether employers facing a preliminary injunction proceeding brought by the National Labor Relations Board can obtain court-sanctioned discovery from rank-and-file employees of their views of the "chilling effect" of particular employer actions on their willingness to support the union seeking to organize them.
6 minute read
By Ross Todd | April 30, 2024
Over the past couple of years we've written about what the relative dearth of cases proceeding to a jury verdict has meant for the trial courts and law firms. Our colleague Avalon Zoppo recently looked at what it means for appellate courts and the development of the law.
4 minute read
By Brian Lee | April 29, 2024
While Judge Caitlin Halligan has had to recuse from two high-profile cases, a court spokesman said the rule was in development before she joined the high court.
5 minute read
By Jimmy Hoover | April 29, 2024
The petitioners—Medical Marijuana Inc., Dixie Holdings LLC and the two companies' joint venture that launched Dixie X—argue that RICO does not allow plaintiffs to bring claims for civil damages stemming from a personal injury.
4 minute read
By Alex Anteau | April 29, 2024
"I was a little more concerned about the pictures because to me if you'd had any of the pictures that the city of Atlanta employees went out and took … showing the water meter lid, you could have had some demonstration of what it looked like irrespective of whether there's a possibility somebody some work or changed it on a day that we can't prove. Yet that's all gone," said Presiding Judge Sarah Doyle.
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By William Ramos Vázquez | April 29, 2024
This article examines the recent Court of Appeals decision that addresses whether the plaintiff was engaged in the type of "repairing" activity that is covered by Labor Law §240(1). The case should be of interest to practitioners for the implications of the specific holding. However, it also provides a broader lesson on stare decisis.
12 minute read
By Casey Alan Coyle and Michael Libuser | April 29, 2024
The fight is over legislation that prohibits the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (the department), the administrator of the lottery, from offering products that "simulate casino-style lottery games" as part of the iLottery program. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently construed the meaning of that phrase in Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment v. Department of Revenue.
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