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Filing at 5 on a Friday doesn't help vaping company's challenge to Michigan e-cigarette ban
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge denied a vaping liquid manufacturer and vendor's request to block an emergency order by Michigan's governor to ban flavored e-cigarettes before it went into effect last week.
Manchester United files $11 million lawsuit as it warns next year won't be as profitable
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – A Georgia-based accounting management company has yet to respond to a United Kingdom soccer team's $11 million lawsuit filed last month over an allegedly unpaid sponsorship deal.
New Jersey Supreme Court reinstates jury's allocation of fault to engineering firm in asbestos case
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – The New Jersey Supreme Court has reinstated a jury's decision in a mesothelioma case against an engineering company that limited its portion of a $1.5 million judgment based on a percentage of blame.
Lawyers representing Kavanaugh accuser should face ethics investigation, Trump advocate says
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Possible misconduct by attorneys for the woman who made allegations during now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings last year should be investigated, an official close to the hearings said during a recent interview.
Navient Solutions scores victory in Florida Middle District consumer protection, misrepresentation case over student loans
TAMPA (Florida Record) – Navient Solutions scored another victory last week when a federal court in Florida dismissed a lawsuit against a Virginia-based provider of federally owned or guaranteed students loans, saying plaintiffs failed to make their case on any of their allegations.
Southeastern U.S. employment lawsuits over past decade 'overwhelmingly favor employers,' report says
MENLO PARK, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Employment litigation cases are on the rise in the Southeastern U.S. where tens of thousands have been filed in federal court since 2009, but employers are largely winning, a California-based litigation data research company said in a recent report.
$61M decision against Dish for conduct of other company 'distorts the law of agency,' PLAC attorney says
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A federal appeals court decision affirming a $61 million class judgment against Dish Network over alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations has made product liability law murkier, an attorney for a corporate advocacy group said.
Landlords have duty to protect infants from radiator burns, some New Jersey Supreme Court justices feel
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – New Jersey landlords had a duty to protect an infant who was severely burned by a hot radiator in 2010, two dissenting justices said in a state Supreme Court decision issued last month in which the majority of justices ruled that the landlords did not.
New Jersey appeals court reverses $1.3 million fee reduction, finds Ocean County Judge lacked jurisdiction
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – An Ocean County judge was out of line when he knocked a plaintiff's attorneys fees from about $1.7 million down to $359,000 in a fee-dispute between an Illinois-based law firm and its former client, a New Jersey appeals court ruled earlier this month.
Cab company could be liable for taxi stolen by teenagers who struck woman
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – A woman severely injured in a hit-and-run involving a stolen cab almost 10 years ago can take the taxi company back to court following a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that the company can he held liable for her life-altering injuries.
Mississippi Supreme Court rules sand company 'has a right to be heard' in dispute over private road
JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – An easement dispute over almost 100 acres in Warren County, Mississippi, is on its way back to a chancery court after the state's highest court ruled an Arkansas-based sand company had not been properly heard during a preliminary hearing.
Newark rent-control law can prohibit 'additional rent' collected by landlords
NEWARK, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – Late fees, attorney’s fees and other costs collected from tenants as “additional rent” can be barred in New Jersey's rent-controlled cities, according to a recently published superior court decision.
Facing $102M legal malpractice case, N.J. law firm permitted to represent itself
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A New Jersey appeals court ruled earlier this month that a law firm can represent itself in a malpractice case in which a former client claims she lost a $102 million child-abuse verdict on appeal over its allegedly bad advice.
Attorney: Recent Calif. SC stance on class actions similar to federal courts'
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A Los Angeles-based commercial litigator says that last month's California Supreme Court ruling that helps class action lawyers get their classes certified is consistent with how federal courts handle the same issue.
D.C. data breach ruling could make waves for plaintiffs seeking standing
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A D.C.-based appeals court's reversal earlier this summer of a lower court's ruling in two class action suits against the Office of Personnel Management over a 2014 data breach may land in the U.S. Supreme Court, an Atlanta law firm said in a recent article.
Orkin hit with $2.6 million arbitration judgment; Miss. couple asks court to enforce
GULFPORT, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – A Biloxi, Mississippi couple wasted no time asking a federal judge to confirm a more than $2.6 million award by an arbitrator who found Atlanta-based pest control company Orkin committed fraud when it allegedly withheld material facts from the couple about their protection contract.
DOJ not joining whistleblower's False Claims Act case against companies with Navy contracts
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – After almost five years, the federal government has decided not to intervene "at this time" in a whistleblower's False Claims Act lawsuit against multiple companies that allegedly supplied nonconforming ship and boat parts to the U.S. Navy and other federal government agencies.
Dismissal of North Dakota opioid suit 'shines a bright spotlight' on cases in other states, Purdue Pharma says
BISMARCK, North Dakota (Legal Newsline) – Purdue Pharma, the nation's leading manufacturer of prescription opioids, including OxyContin, is praising a North Dakota judge's decision earlier this month to affirm his dismissal this spring of the state's case against the company.
Rhode Island's climate change lawsuit sent to state court, faces hurdle of previous state Supreme Court decision
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) – Earlier this week, a federal judge in Rhode Island became sent a climate change lawsuit against energy companies back to state court, rejecting the notion that federal courts have jurisdiction in the matter.
Group asks SCOTUS to overturn 'profoundly wrong' ADA ruling against Domino's
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – An American free enterprise advocacy group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision made earlier this year in the case of a blind man suing a nationwide pizza delivery chain over an alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.