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$1.2B Judgment Against Drug Maker Voided by Arkansas Supreme Court
Mar 21 2014 // The Arkansas Supreme Court overturned a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit challenging the drug maker’s marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. The agreement was the third-largest...
NCAA Expected to Score Deal on Concussion Safety Soon
Mar 21 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association is expected as early as April to reach an agreement to boost safeguards for athletes who get concussions while playing college sports. Driving the deal is 59-year-old Seattle...
Veterans Say Wisconsin Asbestos Lawsuit Bill Would Deny Justice
Mar 20 2014 // Veterans opposed to a bill affecting asbestos-exposure lawsuits in Wisconsin urged Gov. Scott Walker on March 17 to stop the measure, arguing that it would deny justice to asbestos victims. The heavily lobbied proposal...
Bill to Raise Limits on Lawsuit Damages Passes Kansas House Committee
Mar 20 2014 // A Kansas House committee has endorsed legislation allowing higher monetary damages in personal injury lawsuits while revising the rules of evidence in such cases. The March 18 voice vote by the Commerce, Labor and Economic...
NFL Settles Dallas Cowboys Stadium Worker’s Injury Suit
Mar 20 2014 // The NFL says it has settled a lawsuit with a worker injured by ice and snow that fell from the roof of the Dallas Cowboys stadium during the week before the 2011 Super Bowl. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed the...
Court Says Broker Fraud Protected by Bankruptcy’s Safe Harbor
Mar 20 2014 // Bankruptcy law’s “safe harbor,” which prevents customers of defunct brokerages from being sued, applies even when the broker was engaged in fraud and violated multiple securities laws, the U.S. Court of...
Judge Judy Files Suit Against Connecticut Lawyer, Seeks $75K in Damages
Mar 19 2014 // Television’s Judge Judy filed a lawsuit last week against a Connecticut personal-injury lawyer, alleging that he used her image without authorization in advertisements that falsely suggested she had endorsed his...
Oklahoma Court Rules for Whataburger in Hot Gravy Lawsuit
Mar 19 2014 // An Oklahoma appeals court has ruled a mother is not entitled to recover any damages after her 7-year-old daughter spilled hot gravy on her leg after buying a meal from a fast food restaurant’s drive-through...
Iowa Court: Breastfeeding Employee Can’t Sue Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Mar 19 2014 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. did not discriminate against an employee who claims she was denied a room to pump breast milk and pressured to resign on her first day back from maternity leave, a federal appeals court in...
California Toy Company Settles Beastie Boys Suit
Mar 19 2014 // A California toy company has settled its lawsuit against the Beastie Boys over its parody of their song “Girls” in a promotional video that went viral. The Oakland Tribune reported an agreement to dismiss the...
Google Escapes Privacy Class Action with Judge’s Ruling
Mar 19 2014 // Google Inc. won a significant legal victory as a U.S. judge decided not to combine several lawsuits that accuse the Internet search company of violating the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of email users into a...
Viacom Settles $1B Copyright Suit Against Google Over YouTube Videos
Mar 19 2014 // Google Inc. and Viacom Inc. settled Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit claiming YouTube violated copyrights by letting users post video clips from television shows without authorization after a federal judge twice threw out...
Shareholders Sue in 94% of M&As; 75% Settle Before Closing: Cornerstone Research
Mar 18 2014 // Shareholders challenged more than 94 percent of U.S. merger and acquisition (M&A) deals valued over $100 million in 2013, according to a new M&A report by Cornerstone Research. Deals worth $100 million or more...
Georgia Lawyer Dug Deep to Bring Case Against General Motors
Mar 18 2014 // Six days after General Motors Co. recalled almost 800,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s for a defect that could cause surprise engine shutdowns, lawyer Lance Cooper, a solo practitioner in Georgia, sent government...
Supreme Court Justices Signal Compromise on Securities Class Actions
Mar 18 2014 // U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared to look for a compromise that would give publicly traded companies better defenses against securities class actions without overruling a 26-year-old precedent that made it...
N.Y. Court: Zurich Not Obligated to Defend Sony Units in Data Breach Litigation
Mar 17 2014 // A New York trial court recently ruled in a commercial general liability (CGL) policy coverage case that Zurich American Insurance Co. has no duty to defend Sony Corp. of America and Sony Computer Entertainment America in...
Duke Lacrosse Players Trying to Settle Suit with Police
Mar 17 2014 // Three former Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of raping a stripper eight years ago are trying to settle their lawsuit over how Durham police handled the case. The Herald-Sun of Durham reported that lawyers...
Neiman Marcus Sued by Illinois Cardholder over Data Breach
Mar 16 2014 // Neiman Marcus Group Ltd., the luxury department store operator, was sued by an Illinois woman over a data breach in which the retailer initially said more than 1 million customer credit cards may have been...
Lawsuit Filed Against General Motors Over Ignition-Switch Recall Losses
Mar 16 2014 // General Motors Co. was sued on behalf of vehicle owners over an ignition flaw in some small- model cars as it faces regulators’ questions about this year’s recall of 1.6 million vehicles. Bob Hilliard, one of...
Wisconsin Senate Passes Bill to Delay Asbestos Lawsuits
Mar 14 2014 // A bill that Democratic opponents say would slow asbestos-exposure lawsuits has cleared the Wisconsin state Senate. The measure passed would require plaintiffs to reveal how many businesses their attorneys plan to go after....
