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13 Oct 2010, 5:01 am
Existing penalties are not preventing the unethical behavior of a few “bad” preparers whose actions end up tainting the entire industry’s reputation. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 4:30 am
Howard Engle, a Miami doctor and smoker, lent his name to a class action law suit that represented approximately 700,000 ill or deceased Florida smokers. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:31 am
The National Law Journal is reporting that K&L Gates and Thompson & Knight have been hit with a class-action lawsuit for allegedly assisting in a Ponzi scheme. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:30 am
In fact, there are so many people who have had this happen that some smart plaintiff's lawyer filed a putative class action for them, perhaps hoping to get new $2,000 TVs for everyone. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 2:36 am
I thought my commentary and call to action on foreclosure defense AT THIS POINT in history might interest you. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 1:09 pm
Four justices held that allowing the case to proceed further would amount to having the judiciary inappropriately determine Michigan's system of local funding and control of legal services to indigent people.Justices Cavanagh and Hathaway joined Justice Marilyn Kelly's dissent, claiming that the certified class of litigants did have a "justiciable" action; that nothing new had been raised on reconsideration to justify reversing the high court's prior… [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 12:14 pm
(See In re: Easysaver Rewards Litigation -- Internet Rewards Program Class Action Survives Initial Motion to Dismiss and Fifth Circuit Blesses Vistaprint's Rewards Program Sign-Up Process.) [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 8:42 am
Come join us and learn how do deal with the uphill battle facing practitioners regarding: •A rise in class action claims testing novel theories of fiduciary liability •Health care reform, which: ? [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 1:29 am
Mays, Jr. granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss the ’34 Act claims but denied the motions to dismiss the ’33 Act claims in the Regions Morgan Keegan Open-End Mutual Fund securities class action litigation. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 10:39 am
It is a Class 6 felony, and has no statute of limitations. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 7:11 am
’ ” A California law firm has already filed a Class action against lawyers hired by securitizers and who the plantiffs contend knew or should have known the “collection of loans such as the Subject Loan is improper and routinely conceal information concerning such to the courts. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 7:19 am
To assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of claims against which they will have to defend in California courts, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 1:04 pm
Content Regulation * The jury ruled for the defense in Moreno v Hanford Sentinel, an instant-classic cyberlaw case. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 10:45 am
The Bali Nine and Schapelle Corby were convicted under Indonesia's Law No. 22 of 1997 on Narcotics.No. 22 of 1997 on Narcotics This law sets out different classes of drugs - Category I includes heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 6:58 am
If the Second Circuit joins the Ninth and a few other circuits in adopting this presumption, this becomes a very unattractive potential theory of liability for the class action bar or anyone else to pursue; large scale breach of fiduciary duty cases against large, well run and sophisticated plans are tough cases to win in the first place, before adding in the significant defense at the motion practice stage that this presumption grants to plan fiduciaries. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 6:44 am
The decision arose after a group of indigent criminal defendants filed a class action lawsuit claiming that their Sixth Amendment right to counsel was being impinged upon by the denial of court-appointed attorneys at the initial bail hearing stage of the proceedings. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 5:52 am
Workers Still Have A Problem With Their Gay Co-workers – from Workplace Diva Prompt Action by Employer Nixes Racial Harassment Claim – from The Word on Employment Law with John Phillips Failure-to-Promote Not Covered by Ledbetter FPA - New Third Circuit Decision – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space Employment Discrimination Potpourri: It’s Hard Out Here for New Mothers and Large Women – from Abovethelaw EEOC… [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 4:35 am
However, since truth is an absolute defense, any such claim would be dismissed. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 9:59 pm
They are second-class citizens. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 5:36 am
If the judge clears Willingham, it will mark the first time an official in the nation's most active death penalty state has formally declared that someone was wrongly executed.J&J Investors' Class Action Suit Filed in Wake of Company's 'Phantom Recall'New Jersey Law JournalA Johnson & Johnson investor has lodged a putative class action against the pharmaceutical giant, alleging it defrauded stockholders by attempting to cover up… [read post]
