New York City's bar association has decided that it is unethical for lawyers to enter into agreements with companies that finance lawsuits in exchange for a percentage of the recovery.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Colorado upheld a water court’s ruling in a lawsuit against Coors Brewing Co. on June 25, specifying that the company's "native" water use is limited and that it can no longer lease its return-flow water to other companies downstream without a new water right.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) – In a June 11 opinion, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that arbitration agreements under the Health Care Availability Act can still be enforced even if they do not strictly follow the statute requirements for the language.
LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiff lawyers and those in legal marketing and funding businesses gathered last week in Las Vegas for an annual mass tort conference.
DUBLIN, Ga. (Legal Newsline) – Questions over the future of litigation funding remain in Georgia as the state Supreme Court prepares to decide the issue and another case continues to move through a federal court in the state.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Lawsuit lenders Oasis Legal Finance and LawCash (Plaintiff Funding Holding, Inc.) have been ordered to pay in excess of $2 million to settle claims they charged Colorado consumers excessive interest rates.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) — Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman has commented on a recent state Supreme Court decision to invalidate two voter-approved hydraulic fracturing bans enacted by Longmont and Fort Collins.
Colorado employers have a right to a drug-free workplace after the state's Supreme Court's ruling last week, said Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- California again is the nation's No. 1 "judicial hellhole," according to a report issued by the American Tort Reform Association Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- DRI: The Voice of the Defense Bar has filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying a state high court's ruling that a commercial airline is not entitled to immunity in a defamation lawsuit brought against it by one of its pilots should be reversed.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) -- The Colorado Supreme Court, in a ruling this week, said state trial courts need to take a more "hands-on" role in managing discovery.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a former University of Colorado professor seeking to get his job back.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) -- The Colorado Supreme Court this month ruled in favor of automobile insurer State Farm, affirming that underinsured motorists claims against the company are barred by statute of limitations.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A legal permanent resident living in Colorado may not seek post-conviction review of his guilty plea for felony possession with intent to distribute marijuana, but he can seek to withdraw the guilty plea through another legal procedure.
Bender DENVER (Legal Newsline) - The Colorado Supreme Court this week rejected an appeal by a former University of Colorado professor seeking to get his job back.
Eid DENVER (Legal Newsline) - The Colorado Supreme Court last week ruled that when a public entity purchases unlawful securities under a section of state law, disgorgement is not an available remedy against the seller.
Boatright DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Earlier this week, the Colorado Supreme Court reversed a trial court's order quashing substituted service on a defendant in a personal injury case who fled to Mexico.
Bender DENVER (Legal Newsline) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that a company cannot sue a man for the balance of a car loan on which he defaulted.
