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Here's What's in the Proposed California Lemon Law Legislation

A deal between General Motors and the plaintiffs bar lobby would make it tougher for defective-car owners and their lawyers to sue automakers for civil penalties.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Examining New York City's Controversial Hotel Licensing Bill

Authors Todd Soloway, Bryan Mohler and Itai Raz offer an overview of the draft "Safe Hotels Act," and consider potential legal challenges to the bill if it is passed into law.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

US Lawmakers Urge 5th Circuit to Reinstate Pandemic-Era House Proxy Vote, Anti-Bias Law

The request follows a federal judge having thrown out an anti-pregnancy-discrimination law, saying the House of Representatives lacked a constitutional quorum of members present.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Plaintiffs Attorneys, Automaker Cut Deal to Amend California's Lemon Law

Under terms of the negotiated agreement, automakers and their allies will drop a threatened initiative to cap attorneys' contingency fees.
3 minute read

The Recorder

California AI Bills Survive Legislative Hurdle, But Narrowed

Bills regulating AI training and safety will move to legislative floor votes after committee amendments.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Appeals Court Widens Scope of Allowable Child Victims Act Claims

The pivotal ruling by Appellate Division, Third Department Justice Sharon A.M. Aarons denied the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James' motion to dismiss A.J. v. State of New York, reversing a Court of Claims ruling.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Implication of SCOTUS's 'Snyder' Decision and Recent Precedent on Corruption Prosecutions

In fraud and corruption cases, the Supreme Court and the US government are marching in opposite directions. The DOJ continues to embrace new tools from Congress and the White House—including a newly-passed anti-corruption law—while the Supreme Court has increasingly cut back on the DOJ's broad theories of prosecution. This article examines the implications from the Court's latest opinion, Snyder v. United States, which, if applied to other bribery statutes, could severely limit the DOJ's view that gifts to government officials are no different than bribes.
8 minute read

Litigation Daily

How Corporate Law Legislation Morphed Into a Conversation on Judicial Ethics

An amendment to Delaware's corporation law has divided lawyers and led to discussion about when Court of Chancery judges should and should not weigh in on laws they will later apply.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Term Limits Are Doable By Statute, Retired Federal Judge Says

"I'm not saying it wouldn't be a difficult political slog if somebody thought that there was some disadvantage to their side," Judge Diane Wood said. "But I frankly see no constitutional barrier."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Permissive Encroachments Under Post-2008 Adverse Possession Law

Adam Leitman Bailey and John Desiderio discuss how New York Courts are interpreting the way in which RPAPL §543 (Adverse possession; how affected by acts across a boundary line), enacted in 2008 as a new addition to RPAPL Article 5 (Adverse Possession), has changed the law of adverse possession from what it was pre-2008.
14 minute read

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