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The Legal Intelligencer

Beware: Texts and Wearable Data Must Be Preserved, Too

Attorneys need to be aware of technological advances in terms of preservation of evidence and new avenues for seeking relevant evidence. Spoliation sanctions, including adverse jury instructions, have been issued for the failure to preserve text messages. In addition, data from wearable technology, such as the Apple Watch and the Fitbit, can become relevant and material, while also raising concerns about consumer privacy rights.
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Daily Report Online

Feb. 12 Deadline Approaches For Professional Excellence Awards

5The goal of the Daily Report and its parent company, ALM, is to serve the entire legal community. As part of that, we're adding new wrinkles to…
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Daily Business Review

Court Rules 'Downstream' Provider's Claims Don't Arise Under Medicare Act

A Miami federal judge remanded a case against a Medicare Advantage Organization to state court based on distinctions between contract and non-contract providers established in a recent Eleventh Circuit decision.
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Daily Report Online

11th Circuit Bench Slaps Judge, Troutman Sanders Lawyer for Ignoring Order

The panel specifically called out Troutman Sanders attorney Brian P. Watt for convincing the district court to ignore the previous order.
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Daily Business Review

$20 Million Loan Comes Back to Haunt Broward Law Firm, Defense Counsel

A motion for sanctions takes aim at several high-profile South Florida lawyers including noted appellate attorney Bruce Rogow.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Municipal Water and Sewer Authorities: When Wall Street Comes Knocking

It has been a year and a half since Pennsylvania's Fair Value Legislation, Act 12 of 2016, 66 Pa. C.S. Section 1329 (Act 12) went into effect in June 2016. Since Act 12's enactment, Pennsylvania has seen an uptick in investor-owned utilities' (IOUs) attempts to privatize municipal water authorities, and IOUs have publicized their plans to focus on “growth through acquisition.”
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National Law Journal

On Eve of Super Bowl, Food Distributors Declare War on Chicken Wing Producers

US Foods and Sysco sued major chicken producers in federal court in Illinois on Tuesday.
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Daily Business Review

Miami-Dade Judge Bailey Reversed in Allegedly Fraudulent Marina Transfer

A yacht broker will have another chance to argue he had no bad intentions when he transferred assets to a family trust months after being held liable for a $19 million debt.
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New York Law Journal

Credit Agreements, the New Tax Act and the Deemed Dividend

Secured Transactions columnist Barbara M. Goodstein writes: I'm happy that tax issues usually don't play a major role in most plain vanilla syndicated secured lending facilities. One area, however, that we finance lawyers have had to contend with, even in plain vanilla syndicated loan facilities, is §956 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Strategic Considerations Before Challenging Personal Jurisdiction in Products Liability Litigation

Over the last seven years, the U.S. Supreme Court has rapidly and dramatically altered the landscape of personal jurisdiction law. Specifically, the court issued six opinions that overturned a lower court's exercise of personal jurisdiction, reinforced due process limitations on state assertions of jurisdiction, and narrowed the scope of constitutionally permissible general and specific personal jurisdiction.
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