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Lawyers representing most of the more than 10,000 plaintiffs suing New York City and its contractors for illnesses resulting from the response and cleanup after the 9/11 terror attacks have patched up their differences over sharing costs. Plaintiffs firms Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo and Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern were set to square off at a hearing Wednesday, but instead submitted a stipulation to the federal judge presiding over a still-to-be-finalized $712.5 million settlement in the cases.
Patent practitioners say the Federal Circuit's decision that whistleblowers have standing to sue companies that falsely label their products as covered by patents probably won't save cases filed based on the bare fact that products contain false markings. The unanimous panel ruling, which reversed a New York federal court decision, directs the lower court to consider whether the complaint failed to allege an intent to deceive with enough specificity to meet the pleading requirements for fraud.
Allergan has agreed to pay $600 million in criminal and civil penalties and plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of "misbranding" its drug Botox as part of a global settlement with the federal government over off-label uses of the drug. As part of the plea deal, Allergan agreed to drop its First Amendment legal action against the government, which critics said threatened the entire federal regulation of pharmaceuticals.
Law schools need to have faculty with more practical experience, concludes Georgetown University Law Center adjunct professor Brent Evan Newton in a paper that is awaiting publication. He suggests that law faculty be divided into two tracks -- research professors and teaching professors.
Wanda Molina, the New Jersey chief municipal judge at the center of a ticket-fixing scandal that caused her and three other judges to lose their jobs and face criminal charges, has been sentenced to 364 days in jail, though she may be able to avoid hard time. A judge imposed a three-year probationary term to be served first, and at the end of it, Molina can apply to vacate the prison sentence. Molina had admitted that she caused eight parking tickets issued to her live-in companion to be dismissed.
Charities run by Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade and former Miami Dolphins star Jason Taylor agreed to return donations from Ponzi king Scott Rothstein, his defunct law firm's bankruptcy trustee, Herbert Stettin, reported Tuesday. Both charities will return half of the donations under a settlement with Stettin. Wade's World Foundation agreed to return $12,500 of $25,000 received from Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler in July 2009. The Jason Taylor Foundation agreed to return $50,000 of a $100,000 donation received March 2009.
Large-scale commercial contracts often include arbitration clauses in the hopes of avoiding large-scale commercial litigation. But litigators are starting to find the quicker, cheaper, more private aspects of arbitration have turned into lengthy, expensive and often public quasi-trials. This has a growing number of attorneys advising clients to either take their chances in court or tailor very specific arbitration clauses with the hopes of limiting the expense of arbitration.
Antitrust attorney Joseph M. Alioto on Tuesday asked a San Francisco federal judge to do what he says government regulators wouldn't and halt the pending merger of United and Continental airlines. Alioto is arguing on behalf of 49 named plaintiffs that the recently green-lighted merger could lead to higher fares and decreased services. He noted in opening arguments that he brought the claim under Section 16 of the Clayton Act, which provides for injunctive relief, because the plaintiffs haven't yet been harmed.
Terror suspect Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was ordered to serve life in prison Tuesday for a brutal attack that permanently disabled a corrections officer. New York federal Judge Deborah Batts found that a terrorism enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines applied to Salim, who plunged a sharpened comb into the man's eye in a bizarre plot to force a judge to assign him new lawyers. The enhancement and the longer sentence were the result of a 2nd Circuit opinion vacating the initial 32-year sentence Batts gave Salim in 2004.
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