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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.”
9 minute read

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.
3 minute read

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.
4 minute read

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.
8 minute read

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.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Comparative Review of Products Liability Jury Instructions

After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex, the committee appointed by the court to prepare jury instructions issued “suggested standard products liability instructions” (published by the PBI) in an effort to provide guidance to the bench and bar.
15 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Despite Developments in Pa. Products Liability Law, Still No Duty to Recall

The last several years have brought significant developments to Pennsylvania products liability law, ranging from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decisions in Tincher v. Omega Flex and Lance v. Wyeth to rulings on the scope of evidence in the trial of a products liability case, to the application of the Pennsylvania Fair Share Act to a strict product liability claim.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: What's Ahead for the FCA; Covington's Surprise Win for Bombadier; Winston Shoots and Scores

Akin Gump experts talk FCA; Covington's big win for Bombadier at the ITC; Winston & Strawn scores for GolTV in suit against Fox;
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

GrayRobinson Opens New Florida Office in West Palm Beach

The firm has hired three prominent partners to open the office: a former Florida Bar president, a recent past president of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, and a member of the Florida Bar Board of Governors.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judge 'Compelled' to Rule for South Florida Developers in Attorney Fees Dispute

"Although the buyers' misconduct was reprehensible ... this court lacks a mechanism to punish the miscreant defendants," Fourth District Court of Appeal Judge Alan Forst wrote.
5 minute read

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