News from December 2021
Cozen O’Connor Serves as U.S. Counsel to the Owners of HEYDUDE® in Definitive Agreement on Its Sale to Crocs, Inc.
Cozen O’Connor Serves as U.S. Counsel to the Owners of HEYDUDE® in Definitive Agreement on Its Sale to Crocs, Inc..
School nurse hurt during morning workout loses bid for disability benefits
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A school nurse isn’t entitled to disability benefits over a fall she suffered pulling a tire during a morning “Cardio Care” workout program even though it didn’t entirely fit New Jersey’s exclusion for “recreational or social activities.”
'Scandalous' details in sex abuse lawsuits to be included, as court rules against N.Y. Archdiocese
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - Lawsuits over childhood sex abuse necessarily contain details that are graphic and uncomfortable but shouldn’t be stripped from the complaint under a law prohibiting “scandalous or prejudicial matter” from lawsuits, a New York appeals court ruled in a case involving allegations against a Catholic-school basketball coach.
Missed deadline dooms Louisiana legal malpractice lawsuit
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - A New Orleans man who lost a $600,000 judgment to his former partner in a venture to renovate houses after Hurricane Katrina also lost his chance to win money from his lawyers after an appeals court tossed his legal malpractice lawsuit over a missed deadline.
Wilentz-Led Sustainability Bonds Transaction Named as the Green “Deal of the Year” by The Bond Buyer
Wilentz-Led Sustainability Bonds Transaction Named as the Green “Deal of the Year” by The Bond Buyer.
Maryland Judiciary reverts operations amid Omicron surge
The Maryland Judiciary has announced a reduction in operations, reverting to Phase III of its reopening plan due to the surge in the Omicron variant.
Mom gets second chance to sue school over out-of-control fight
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A mother who sued her son’s school district over an assistant principal’s attempts to control a hallway fight will get another chance to win damages after a Kentucky appeals court reversed a dismissal on qualified immunity grounds.
'Smells like poop': Court lets workers sue over stinky office
TOPEKA, Kan. (Legal Newsline) - Municipal employees who complained of a variety of ailments after inhaling pesticide fumes in an office building can sue the city of Moscow, Kansas, as well as the company that applied the chemicals despite having little scientific evidence of exposure beyond their recollection of a “really, really bad smell,” a Kansas appeals court ruled.
Sun Belt will face racism accusations in federal court
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – The Sun Belt Conference’s former chief compliance officer will have to pursue his racial discrimination lawsuit in federal court.
US Department of Labor Finds Violations at Mississippi Fish Farms, Recovers More Than $102k in Back Wages for 123 Workers
US Department of Labor Finds Violations at Mississippi Fish Farms, Recovers More Than $102k in Back Wages for 123 Workers.
Boston Magazine Names Four Troutman Pepper Attorneys to Inaugural Top Lawyers List
Boston Magazine Names Four Troutman Pepper Attorneys to Inaugural Top Lawyers List.
CVN Recognizes Shook for Trial Skills in List of Most Impressive Defense Verdicts
CVN Recognizes Shook for Trial Skills in List of Most Impressive Defense Verdicts.
Pharmacies seek reversal or new opioid trial, saying process `plagued with errors’
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) Walmart, CVS and Walgreens moved for reversal or a new trial over opioid claims, saying the trial that resulted in a historic public nuisance verdict against them was “plagued with errors” including jury instructions “designed to manufacture a verdict” for the plaintiffs.
Morrisey calls EPA appeal one of state's 'most consequential cases in decades'
WASHINGTON – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey calls an appeal he’s leading against the Environmental Protection Agency before the U.S. Supreme Court “one of the most consequential cases our state has seen in decades.”
Fire disrupts operations at Talbot County Circuit Court
A fire broke out in the clerk’s office at the Circuit Court for Talbot County on December 19, 2021.
Lawsuit over alleged FirstEnergy bribery scheme to get moving
CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) – An appeals court has backed a trial judge’s decision to get a notable case involving alleged bribery in the Ohio legislature going.
Malpractice plaintiffs can't win cost of charity care, Ninth Circuit rules
The family of a man who died of a heart attack after being released without care can’t recover “medical expenses” that the hospital wrote off as charity, the Ninth Circuit ruled, interpreting Montana law on this question for the first time.
Doctors who operated on pregnant woman can be sued for wrongful death after abortion
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A woman who had elective surgery while in the early stages of pregnancy can use Illinois’ Wrongful Death Act to sue over the abortion she had after anesthesia malformed the fetus.
Owner defends charging entry fees to famous New Orleans cemeteries
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) – The battleground is cemeteries in New Orleans, and the defendant says they are its home turf.
Arizona court revives data breach class action that federal court dismissed
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - An Arizona woman is free to pursue a class action over a data breach at a medical center after a state appeals court said a federal judge’s dismissal of the case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled in federal court, doesn’t mean it can’t proceed in state court instead.