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3M was cleared of liability Friday in the second bellwether trial in a 236,000-plaintiff class action over claims its combat earplugs didn't protect service members' hearing the way they were supposed to, according to counsel for both sides.
A Florida federal judge said Friday that investors hadn't shown any "severe recklessness" on the part of Carnival Corp. in connection with the cruise line's public statements about the risks posed by COVID-19 as the pandemic was breaking out.
A Miami-based arbitration group warns that a Florida appeals court's ruling on arbitrability involving a couple who stayed at an Airbnb property runs contrary to almost every federal and state decision on the issue, saying most courts give arbitrators the power to decide whether to arbitrate a case.
Insurance companies notified two years too late of a murder and assault at an Atlanta apartment complex don't have to indemnify the apartments' owner and manager for the $7 million settlement of an underlying suit, the Eleventh Circuit held.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reached a deal to settle its deceptive practices suit against a Florida fintech lender catering to drivers for ride-hailing companies, asking a Miami federal judge to approve terms that require the company and its CEO to return roughly $1 million to consumers and pay a fine.
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the bribery convictions of a coal company executive and a former Balch & Bingham environmental partner, saying it found no reason to disturb jury findings that the two paid an Alabama legislator to help dodge Superfund cleanup liability.
A Florida state appeals court has upheld class certification for thousands of Fort Lauderdale businesses seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damages after a water main break in 2019 forced them to temporarily close.
A Georgia city asked the Eleventh Circuit to back a lower court's dismissal of a discrimination suit brought by its former fire chief, who claimed she was fired because of anti-transgender bias, saying she didn't follow proper procedure before filing the case.
The Eleventh Circuit has agreed with a Florida federal court that a Sunshine State woman's life insurance policy was illegally procured, though the appellate court otherwise stayed Berkshire Hathaway's appeal of the ruling that it owes $4 million until the Delaware Supreme Court answers several questions.
Investor Mark Ambach is reportedly hoping to build 200 apartment units in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, Freeway Logistics is said to be leasing 97,440 square feet in Houston, and developer CFH Group has reportedly gotten the green light to build 266 apartments near the Miami International Airport.
Black Knight Inc. said Friday it's buying mortgage industry marketing automation company Top of Mind Networks from Primus Capital and other investors in a $250 million deal guided by Florida law firm Smith Hulsey & Busey and Goodwin Procter LLP.
Facing a situation unlike any he had ever encountered, a Florida attorney appointed to protect the assets of a software developer that had been raided by the FBI turned to an arcane tool to transform its defrauded investors into shareholders of a new $11 million company.
Litigation firm Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP announced Thursday the addition of a new labor and employment partner out of its Tampa office.
Georgia staffing company Insight Global LLC is asking a court to invalidate the $735,000 cancellation fee a Florida hotel charged it after halting a January conference the company said would have been a "super-spreader" COVID-19 event.
A Miami man was ordered to serve 17½ years in federal prison Thursday, the eighth and final defendant to be sentenced in a case over an $80 million Medicare fraud conspiracy run through Florida and Michigan.
A tobacco historian testifying as an expert witness in a widow's trial against R.J. Reynolds acknowledged Thursday that the company poured money into developing a safer cigarette in the 1980s — $1 billion, by the company's reckoning, he said — but never pulled its traditional cigarettes from shelves.
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday backed key elements of the state's medical marijuana regulatory framework and said it disagreed with lower courts' findings that a license applicant had shown it was likely to succeed with several constitutional challenges to licensing rules.
Two technology industry groups on Thursday filed the first suit challenging Florida's new law prohibiting social media companies from blocking political candidates, claiming the law unconstitutionally restricts those businesses' speech rights.
Two New Jersey universities have escaped claims that they owe students tuition and refunds for switching to virtual instruction during the pandemic, a top New York judge is among those opposing landlords trying to overturn statewide eviction protections, and a Southwest Airlines flight attendant seeks to preserve her suit alleging the airline's failure to adhere to coronavirus safety protocols caused her to contract the virus and infect her late husband.
A LeFrak Organization affiliate has reportedly paid $24.5 million for a Miami Beach apartment complex, Cayuga Capital is reportedly hoping to sell a Brooklyn property for $65 million and KeyBank is said to have loaned $58.9 million for a Florida assisted living and memory care project.
The federal government has pushed back against a bid from Lev Parnas, the Florida associate of former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, to compel the disclosure of certain search warrant materials seized from Giuliani, arguing the materials aren't relevant to the indictments at hand.
Private prison giant GEO Group Inc. can't invoke a Washington wage law's three-year statute of limitations to limit the state's case in a jury trial on allegations that it paid $1-a-day wages to immigrant detainees, a federal judge held Wednesday.
The Florida Supreme Court approved a reprimand Thursday for an attorney who impugned a sitting judge's integrity during a failed campaign for a county court judicial seat, and added a warning to future judicial candidates that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated by the court.
A litigation loan provider has urged a Florida federal court to drop a law firm's claim that the financier unlawfully sought to interfere with a business deal between the attorneys and their clients in a long-standing qui tam suit against MetLife Inc. as the related loan went into default.
Despite pandemic-related challenges this year, law firms can effectively train summer associates on writing and communicating — without investing more time than they ordinarily would, says Julie Schrager at Schiff Hardin.
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The increasing legalization of recreational marijuana spotlights the need for states to safeguard the public by developing laws to curb driving under the influence of drugs with uniform bright-line rules, along with more accurate testing and increased law enforcement training, say Laura Sedrish at Jacoby & Meyers and Victor Schwartz at Shook Hardy.
As Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement is expected to increase under the Biden administration, companies facing scrutiny should assess the reasonableness of fines in the context of their capacity to continue operations, and the potential impacts of filing an inability-to-pay claim, say analysts at Charles River Associates.
The utility of legal technology innovations may be limited without clear data and objectives from the outset, but targeted surveys can provide specific insights that enable law firms to adopt the most appropriate and efficient tech solutions, says Tim Scott at Frogslayer.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's recent decision to centralize lawsuits over coffee labeling in Missouri, rather than in the locations suggested by either the plaintiffs or the defendants, highlights how venue selection can be one of the most unpredictable aspects of MDL practice, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.
Amid high demand for associates and aggressive competition to attract talent, law firms should take three key steps to conduct meaningful prehire due diligence and safeguard against lateral hiring mistakes that can hurt their revenue and reputation, says Michael Ellenhorn at Decipher.
After the U.S. Supreme Court's 2016 Spokeo v. Robins decision made it harder for plaintiffs to establish violations of consumer protection statutes such as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, federal appeals courts didn't immediately fall in line — but recent decisions suggest that the tide may be turning, say Brett Watson and Karl Riley at Cozen O'Connor.
Alex Oh’s abrupt departure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and admonishment by a D.C. federal judge over conduct in an Exxon human rights case demonstrate three major costs of incivility to lawyers, and highlight the importance of teaching civility in law school, says David Grenardo at St. Mary's University.
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The federal rule that permits the use of business records as evidence must be amended to address the unreliability of electronically stored information and inconsistent court frameworks on email admissibility, say Josh Sohn and Nadia Zivkov at Stroock.
Many jurisdictions are resuming in-person jury trials, but certain technology-enabled efficiencies could outlast the pandemic and represent lasting changes for the way pretrial proceedings and courtroom presentations take place, says Stuart Ratzan at Ratzan Weissman.
In its recent Concepts America decision, the Illinois bankruptcy court didn't settle the debate over Chapter 7 substantial contribution claims, but provided useful guidance regarding a conflict that is likely to continue absent appellate precedent or legislative action, say Daniel Merrett and Mark Douglas at Jones Day.
Motions to dismiss the first pandemic-related securities class actions were met with varying degrees of success, but show that plaintiffs still face hurdles bringing claims related to COVID-19's impact on a company's operations, and highlight ongoing litigation and enforcement risks issuers should consider, say Robert Long and Elizabeth Clark at Alston & Bird.
If the U.S. Supreme Court declines to overturn the Ninth Circuit's decision permitting counties to sue Volkswagen over tampering with automobile emissions control devices, the result could create significant uncertainty around federal administration of vehicle emissions regulations, says John Mizerak at Covington.
As several states make vaccine passports illegal, businesses that want their customers vaccinated should try incentives rather than making services conditional, which could run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, say Chase Hattaway and Michael Tessitore at Rumberger Kirk.
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Katherine Forrest's new book, "When Machines Can Be Judge, Jury, and Executioner," raises valid transparency concerns about artificial intelligence tools used by judges when making bail and sentencing decisions, but her argument that such tools should be rejected outright is less than convincing, says U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez of the Western District of Texas.
