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New Jersey Law Journal

Verdict Search

By | December 27, 2013
Verdicts and settlements in New Jersey state and federal courts.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Verdict Search

By | December 19, 2013
Verdicts and settlements in New Jersey state and federal courts
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Courts Apply Same Old Rules to New Issues in 2013

In 2013, many novel civil litigation issues came before the trial and appellate courts of Pennsylvania for decision. Some of these issues were resolved and some were left open for another day, but one key trend that emerged was courts wrestling with technological advances like social media, cellphones and GPS devices in the legal spectrum.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Father-Son Team Wins $3.5 Million Jury Award For Club-Goer

Israel Reyes and Christopher Reyes helped a 22-year-old nightclub patron win a jury award of nearly $3.5 million after a fight with a bouncer left him with a shattered jaw.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Store Video Helps Kroger Win Defense Verdict in Slip-Fall Case

After losing a string of slip-and-fall cases over the past two years—some with sanctions for failure to preserve security camera video recordings—the Kroger Co. has won a defense verdict in a premises liability trial in Gwinnett County State Court.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Fortois v. Elliot & Assoc., PICS Case No. 13-3191 (C.P. Monroe Oct. 7, 2013) Zulick, J. (8 pages).

By | December 10, 2013
Personal Injury • Downhill Waters Discharge • Common Enemy Doctrine • Artificial Diversion • Unreasonable Increase in Quantity • Failure to Respond
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Injury Suit Involving Trapdoor Stairway Dismissed

Stairs leading from sidewalk trapdoors to basements, common throughout New York City, are not "interior stairs" under the city's building code, making it legal to obstruct them with a conveyor belt in order to unload merchandise, a Bronx state judge has ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Irony in Six Flags Case and EEOC Push Not to Screen Hires With Arrests

By | December 02, 2013
I appreciated Sheryl Jaffee Halpern's On Topic article concerning the EEOC's aggressive pursuit of some companies over the use of criminal conviction records in making hiring decisions ("EEOC: Using arrest or conviction records in hiring decisions requires caution," Nov. 20).
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Case Over Paralyzed College Student's 20-Foot Fall Settles

By | November 26, 2013
A case involving a college student who was paralyzed after she fell 20 feet through a skylight has settled for $11.6 million.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Case Over College Student's Fall Settles for $11.6 Mil.

A case involving a college student who was paralyzed after she fell 20 feet through a skylight has settled for $11.6 million.
4 minute read

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