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Challenge to Falcons Stadium Bonds Argued in Court

Lawyers for a group of pastors and residents from the area where the new Falcons stadium is to be built pleaded their case Thursday, raising 20 objections they said should derail the city's plan to issue $200 million in bonds to finance part of the $1 billion project.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Gorzynski v. Jetblue Airways Corp.

Deposition Testimony May Be Used at Trial Despite Incomplete Transcript, Missing Notes
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Defendant Criticizes 'Do-Over' By Experts in Organic Milk Class Actions

A milk company defending its labeling against seven proposed class actions said that the plaintiffs are attempting a “do-over” of their expert testimony by having their experts complete new reports.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Panel Revives $3M Verdict in Hospital Case

A plaintiff in a wrongful death case has won reinstatement of a $3 million verdict against a hospital—but her lawyer nonetheless is bothered by the part of the opinion by the Georgia Court of Appeals that lets a physician off the hook.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Evidence Suppressed Due to Faulty Warrant

Cocaine and guns seized from a man's home in Queens will be kept out of evidence because police used a warrant that didn't specifically identify the apartment to be searched.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Court: Testimony from Oral Surgeon Improperly Excluded

The expert testimony of an oral surgeon should have been allowed in a product liability suit brought by a patient who contends her use of the drug Zometa led to the destruction of bone in her jaw, a federal appeals court has ruled, reversing a lower court's decision and remanding the case.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Work-Product Privilege Covers Using Experts' Prior Testimony To Impeach

Lawyers who track down an opposing expert's testimony from prior cases must disclose it during discovery but need not say which testimony they plan to use in cross-examining the expert at trial, a New Jersey appeals court says.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Weighs Prejudice of Letting Jury Hear Defendant's Rap Lyrics

The New Jersey Supreme Court hears arguments on whether admitting a rapper's lyrics, some of them violent, in his criminal trial was unduly prejudicial.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Hearings Open Over Plaintiffs' Experts in Zoloft MDL

Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has been aggressively attacking the experts the plaintiffs want to use to show a causal relationship between Zoloft and birth defects. Now the battle over those experts has moved into the courtroom, with hearings this week in Philadelphia on the admissibility of their opinions.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Divided Appeals Court Rejects Notion That 'Blinded Reviews' Needed for Suit Over Misread Pap Test

A divided Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected a defense attempt to restrict the sort of expert testimony that's acceptable in malpractice cases involving a common screening test for cervical cancer.
7 minute read

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