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Citing District Judge's Actions During Trial, 3rd Circuit Vacates Med-Mal Verdict
submitted by savio2791 35 days ago (via law.com)
The 3rd Circuit has vacated a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case and remanded the case to a new judge, due to Judge Berle M. Schiller's actions during trial. "The lack of reasons given by the District Court, when combined with the manner in which the District Court dealt with these issues with counsel, has left us with the impression that the District Court interrupted counsel to a poin
 
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Bar Complaint Filed Against Lawyer Scolded by Judge for 'Verbal Assault'
submitted by savio2791 35 days ago (via law.com)
Atlanta attorney William G. McDaniel has filed a bar complaint against James W. Smith, the Georgia lawyer who was recently scolded by a judge for remarks he made about a military gold star pin that his opposing counsel wore to honor his son killed in Iraq. Said McDaniel: "The idea of losing a 21-year-old son and then being ridiculed by a piece of slime, it made my blood boil."
 
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Next Term: A Fatter, Faster Calendar for Supreme Court
submitted by savio2791 35 days ago (via law.com)
The current term is history, so what's up for the Supreme Court's nextterm, which begins Oct. 6? More cases, heard more quickly, posing arange of tough and possibly divisive issues from religion in the publicsquare to expletives on the public airwaves. The Court has alreadygranted review in enough cases for Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. tohasten the argument calendar, making it likely that the Co
 
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Coughlin Stoia's Backdating Bet Pays Big With UnitedHealth's $895 Million Settlement
submitted by savio2791 35 days ago (via law.com)
In what is likely to be a windfall for a top California plaintiffs firm, UnitedHealth Group announced it would pay a whopping $895 million to settle a securities class action over stock option backdating. Coughlin Stoia represents the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which Minnesota federal Judge James Rosenbaum appointed as lead plaintiff in April. The settlement amount dwarfs a re
 
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11th Circuit Sides With National Geographic in Copyright Case
submitted by savio2791 36 days ago (via law.com)
After more than a decade of litigation, back-to-back rulings by the 2nd Circuit and the 11th Circuit favoring the National Geographic Society will allow magazine and newspaper publishers to transfer their published archives to computer discs and sell them commercially without infringing on freelance contributors' copyrights. The ruling turns on what constitutes an acceptable revision and what cons
 
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Jury Clears One of Three Lawyers in Fen-Phen Trial
submitted by savio2791 36 days ago (via law.com)
A federal jury acquitted one attorney Tuesday of defrauding clients in a diet-drug settlement, but was sent back to deliberate on two others. Jurors acquitted Melbourne Mills, 77, of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. face the same charge. The three were accused of conspiring to defraud clients out of $65 million in a settlement involving the diet drug fen-
 
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Wal-Mart Loses $6.5 Million Wage-and-Hour Class Action
submitted by savio2791 36 days ago (via law.com)
Wal-Mart and lead trial counsel Susman Godfrey are 0-for-3 in wage-and-hour class action trials. Tuesday, after a three-month bench trial, a Minnesota judge ruled that in failing to provide rest breaks, Wal-Mart broke state labor laws more than 2 million times. Judge Robert King Jr. awarded $6.5 million in compensatory damages to the class, consisting of about 56,000 Wal-Mart employees in Minnesot
 
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Attorney Ordered to Repay $403,000 for Mishandling Ex-Judge's Affairs
submitted by savio2791 36 days ago (via law.com)
A New York judge Monday assessed $403,000 in surcharges against a lawyer for mishandling the financial affairs of a former judge during the three years she served as his guardian. Justice Michael A. Ambrosio also denied in toto the request of the lawyer, Emani P. Taylor, that she be paid $853,000 for her work as the former judge's guardian. Ambrosio lacerated Taylor's performance, at one point cal
 
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Schulte Roth & Zabel to Open Office in D.C.
submitted by savio2791 36 days ago (via law.com)
Schulte Roth & Zabel on Tuesday announced plans to open an office in Washington, D.C. The announcement coincides with the hiring of several securities litigation lawyers from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and D.C.'s Dickstein Shapiro. Among those joining the 414-lawyer firm are: Howard Schiffman, former head of Dickstein's securities litigation, regulatory and compliance practice; fellow Dickstein secur
 
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Judges Bristle at Loss of Perks
submitted by savio2791 36 days ago (via law.com)
In the latest strange consequence of the 2005 Fulton County Courthouse shootings, the county's Superior Court judges are set to lose their county health insurance and other benefits at the end of July. The order from the Fulton County, Ga., government manager stems from the interim county attorney's interpretation of a Georgia Court of Appeals ruling that cleared the way for a negligence suit by J
 
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