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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 7 years ago
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Major Human Trafficking Case Goes to Trial: Signal International
"Opening arguments begin today in a federal lawsuit brought by the SPLC on behalf of guest workers from India who were lured to a Mississippi shipyard by false promises of permanent U.S. residency only to find themselves forced into servitude and...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 5 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: Commonly Missed Regulations and Rules
Familiarity with the Labor Code and the WCAB/DWC regulations is a fundamental necessity for practicing workers’ compensation law in the State of California. Given this fact, it is surprising how many attorneys show up on the day of trial without...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: A New Year With New Rules and New Responsibilities
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) has rung in the New Year with new rules, new regulations and new responsibilities for all participants in the workers’ compensation community. It is important to be cognizant of all the changes...
Ted Zwayer
over 8 years ago
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over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
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Rwandan woman to stand trial in N.H. on immigration charges
"A federal courtroom in New Hampshire is about to become a laboratory for analyzing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and whether a Manchester immigrant played a role in it. Prosecutors say 41-year-old Beatrice Munyenyezi of Rwanda lied on applications...
Rebecca Kelder Myers and Eric E. Bensen
over 11 years ago
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Is the Litigation Team Ready for Trial?
By Eric E. Bensen & Rebecca K. Myers The months (or years) of work Outside Counsel has spent working on the litigation - drafting, reviewing and analyzing the pleadings, collecting, reviewing and producing the documents, drafting, revising and...
John K. Rabiej
over 11 years ago
Litigation
E-Discovery
John K. Rabiej On The 2010 Amendments To Rule 26 Of The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure
Important amendments to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became effective Dec. 1, 2010. The amendments extend work-product protection to the discovery of draft reports by a testifying expert witness and, with three important exceptions...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Jury Awards $1.8 Million To Plaintiff In First Levaquin MDL Bellwether Trial
MINNEAPOLIS - (Mealey's) A Minnesota federal jury on Dec. 8 awarded a plaintiff in the first Levaquin multidistrict litigation bellwether trial a total of $1,815,000 in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that manufacturer Ortho-McNeil...
Patrick A. Cathcart
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Pat Cathcart Of AlvaradoSmith On California Expedited Jury Trials
Effective Jan. 1, 2011, parties in litigation in California can choose a new trial option: an expedited jury trial, to be completed in one day with a small jury. Pat Cathcart, of AlvardoSmith in Los Angeles, explains this new litigation procedure in a...
William A. Ruskin
over 8 years ago
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William A. Ruskin: Plaintiffs' Bar Embraces Reptile Strategy And Defense Bar Responds
By William A. Ruskin | Reptile strategy has taken the plaintiffs' bar by storm. The Reptile theory asserts that you can prevail at trial by speaking to, and scaring, the primitive part of jurors' brains, the part of the brain they share with...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
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Virginia Federal Jury Says Woman Didn't Prove Prempro Warnings Were Inadequate
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - (Mealey's) A Virginia federal jury on Dec. 3 found that a woman who claimed to have developed breast cancer from taking Wyeth's Prempro hormone replacement therapy drug did not prove that warnings provided to her doctor were...
Rebecca Kelder Myers and Eric E. Bensen
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Is the Litigation Team Ready for Trial?
By Eric E. Bensen & Rebecca K. Myers The months (or years) of work Outside Counsel has spent working on the litigation - drafting, reviewing and analyzing the pleadings, collecting, reviewing and producing the documents, drafting, revising and...
William A. Ruskin
over 10 years ago
Litigation
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William A. Ruskin: Does Wireless Internet In Courthouse Exacerbate Lawyer Abuse?
By William A. Ruskin Yesterday, we published an article titled 'Lawyers' Use Of Internet To Influence Jurors' raising the concern that the fairness of jury trials may be jeopardized if jurors can surf the Internet and read misleading or...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
Litigation
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$8M Fosamax Verdict Remitted By MDL Judge To $1.5M Or New Damages Trial
NEW YORK -- (Mealey's) The New York federal judge overseeing the Fosamax multidistrict litigation on Oct. 4 sua sponte found that an $8 million verdict in a bellwether trial is excessive and ordered a remittitur of the verdict to $1.5 million unless...
LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff
over 12 years ago
Litigation
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Vikings Vs. NFL Goes To Trial Today
MINNEAPOLIS – (AP) More than a year after two Minnesota Vikings sued the NFL over its anti-doping procedures, the closely watched case heads to trial Monday with sports leagues worried the outcome will hurt their ability to enforce drug policies...
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