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New York Law Journal

Panel Upholds Breach Claim Over Football Club Debt

An investment fund that served as a creditor to former owners of the Liverpool Football Club avoided being outscored by its opponent last week when an appellate panel found that it properly alleged a $70 million breach of contract claim against the competing lender that provided additional loan financing.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Sides With Defense in Sidewalk Trip-and-Fall

According to a pretrial memorandum from the plaintiffs, 54-year-old plaintiff Debbie McAdams exited a taxicab at Ninth Street and Washington Avenue in the Italian Market in Philadelphia. As she walked on the sidewalk outside M&L Donuts, which was owned by defendants Michael Chan and Linda Ma Chan, McAdams, who was working as an assistant bank manager, tripped and fell. McAdams allegedly sustained a hand injury.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Rear-ender Didn't Lead to Missed Work, Jury Finds

By | September 09, 2014
On April 23, 2012, plaintiff Kirsten Robinson, a nurse's aide in her mid-20s, was driving a sedan that was stopped on Montgomery Avenue at the intersection of Gay Street, in West Chester, when she was rear-ended by a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Ashlee Palmer.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Court Rulings Say About Online Consumer Privacy

Consumers and web users who find transmission of their data an invasion of privacy have sued under various privacy statutes for alleged damages arising out of this practice.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Dameron Hospital Association v. AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah Insurance Exchange

By | September 05, 2014
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New Verdict in Landmark Remittitur Case Survives Appeal

The case that spawned a landmark New Jersey Supreme Court decision allowing trial judges greater leeway to remit jury verdicts might have finally come to a close as the result of a Sept. 2 appellate court holding that affirmed the damages awarded in a second jury trial.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Minor Accident Leads to Major Injuries for Plaintiff

A 2011 two-car, fender-bender in Milford involving Josephine Feliciano and Danielle Burns resulted in a Bridgeport Superior Court jury awarding $55,022 in damages.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Wrongfully Convicted Man Fights DC Over Damages

DNA evidence exonerated Donald Gates, who was convicted of raping and murdering a Georgetown University student in 1981. Over the past three years, he's wrangled with lawyers for the District of Columbia over whether the city should have to pay him for the nearly 30 years he spent in prison.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Welder's Family Settles for $1.5 Million in Wrongful Death Case

The family of a Dayville man who was killed when he fell down an elevator shaft while doing welding work at a construction site has settled their wrongful death lawsuit for $1.5 million.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

These South Florida Attorneys Settle Child-Torture Case For $17.5M

Howard Talenfeld and Ted Babbitt settled with New York City and three child welfare agencies for $17.5 million on behalf of 10 special-needs children who moved to Florida with their abusive foster mother.
4 minute read

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