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New Jersey Law Journal

Supreme Court Nixes $2.7 Million Auto Accident Award

Citing numerous errors, the New Jersey Supreme Court on June 1 overturned a $2.7 million damages award issued to a Hackensack woman whose car rear-ended a garbage truck.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

5 Cases that Address the E-Discovery FRCP Amendments from Spring 2016

Six months after the new rules went into effect, courts are beginning to discern case law surrounding proportionality and spoliation sanctions.
19 minute read

National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: DOJ Resists Judge's Ethics Sanctions | Trump U.'s 'Playbook'

The U.S. Justice Department is mounting a challenge to a Texas judge's attorney-ethics sanctions. A federal appeals court rules for the feds in a Fourth Amendment case over cell-phone location data. And a federal judge in California releases Trump University docs that had been kept secret. This is a roundup from ALM and other publications.
5 minute read

Law.com

Justice Dept. Seeks Broader Authority to Prosecute Supreme Court Disruptions

Federal prosecutors want wider latitude to bring criminal charges against individuals who disrupt arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. attorney's office in Washington filed papers in the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday arguing that a trial judge was wrong to block them from charging defendants with making a 'harangue' or 'oration' at the high court.
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Laster Rules Dell Merger Shortchanged Shareholders

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster on Tuesday ruled that Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake underpaid investors by approximately 28 percent in the $24.4 billion going-private merger of Dell Inc. in 2013.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Town Can't Block Affordable Housing Unit Sales, Judge Rules

A New Jersey judge has ruled that a town cannot bar the owners of constitutionally mandated affordable housing units from selling their homes at market rates.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'When in Doubt, Appeal' in Consolidated Cases

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ­ruling last week in Malanchuk v. Tsimura did not change the law in Pennsylvania, ­attorneys said, but it eliminated confusion that had built up in the intermediate appellate courts of when parties can ­appeal in consolidated actions.
16 minute read

National Law Journal

Verdicts & Settlements

A summary of the week's notable cases.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Dewey Exec DiCarmine Picks New Lawyer, Delaying Retrial

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf executive director Stephen DiCarmine, who continues to battle multiple criminal charges related to his firm's 2012 collapse, chose a new top white-collar defense lawyer to represent him on Friday.
16 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Lougy, Susswein Among 17 NJ Judicial Nominees

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on May 26 nominated 17 lawyers–including Acting Attorney General Robert Lougy and Assistant Attorney General Ronald Susswein–to the Superior Court bench.
7 minute read

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