Connecticut Court of Appeals
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75 Elm St, Hartford, CT 06106
Recent News About Connecticut Court of Appeals
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Families of 29 call-center employees who were killed in a fire in the Philippines must sue the Connecticut company that employed them in their home country, an appeals court ruled, rejecting arguments the case would be dismissed overseas.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A strip club must pay some of its dancers more than $100,000 in back wages and overtime, a Connecticut appeals court ruled, rejecting the club’s argument an arbitrator relied too heavily upon the testimony of the dancers about how many hours they worked.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Two men who accused a prominent Connecticut businessman of sexually abusing them when they were children can’t revive lawsuits they settled even though the defendant stopped making agreed-upon payments, an appeals court ruled.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A Connecticut school district can’t be held liable for illegal sex between a female theater teacher and a student, an appeals court ruled, because the two took care to avoid being discovered and school officials had no reason to suspect wrongdoing.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A Connecticut appeals court upheld a multimillion-dollar verdict for a man who argued a nurse with improper enema technique tore a hole in his rectum, leading to a severe infection and multiple hospitalizations.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A volleyball referee came up scoreless after a Connecticut appeals court affirmed the dismissal of his lawsuit against the Newtown School District over injuries he suffered after his viewing platform collapsed.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – A decision in the case of an accident allegedly caused by an untreated icy bridge in New London, Connecticut was partially reversed by the state's high court.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – Connecticut will not appeal the state's Supreme Court's recent unanimous decision that journals and other documents belonging to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza should be released to the public.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s judgment and determined the family of a woman who died after allegedly not being notified about her medical condition should get more discovery options in their lawsuit against Radiologic Associates of Middletown PC on Sept. 25.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – On Sept. 18, the Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed a Compensation Review Board’s decision that would award a widow with workers’ compensation benefits after it was determined her husband’s passing from lung cancer was work-related.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned part of an Appellate Court decision in a $12 million medical malpractice case.
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A law passed by the state legislature invoking a moratorium on filing for additional benefits by both employee and employer had caused some confusion.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The Connecticut Appellate Court denied a lawyer’s attempt to have financial sanctions imposed against her dropped under theories of res judicata and collateral estoppel.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The Connecticut Appellate Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of Monroe-based law firm Beck & Beck LLC that had filed a lawsuit against James T. Costello to recover unpaid legal fees.
