SAN FRANCISCO - A California appeals court justice denied a newspaper’s request for rehearing Sept. 8, leaving stand a ruling affirming a $16 million verdict for the paper’s below-cost pricing of advertisements (Bay Guardian Co. v. New Times Media LLC, et al., No. A122448, Calif. App., 1st Dist., Div. 1; 2010 Cal. App. LEXIS 1573; […]
MIAMI - Beverage giant The Coca-Cola Co. is accused in a class action lawsuit filed Sept. 1 in Florida federal court of misleading consumers about the health benefits associated with drinking its VitaminWater products (Nicholas Armada, et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al., No. 10-cv-61621, S.D. Fla.).
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A pollution legal liability insurer has a duty to defend its insured in an underlying environmental contamination contribution action because none of the policy’s exclusions, including a waste disposal exclusion, applies to bar coverage, a North Carolina federal judge said Sept. 16 (Peace College of Raleigh Inc. v. American International Specialty Lines […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court said Sept.3 that it will not reconsider a foreign tobacco company’s petition for review of whether federal racketeering law has extraterritorial reach despite the company’s argument that a recent high court pronouncement in another case invalidated the government’s position (British American Tobacco Ltd. v. United States, et al., […]
BEAUMONT, Texas - A trial court properly entered a take-nothing judgment on a benzene-exposure claim against Texaco Refining & Marketing Inc. but erred in granting summary judgment on a claim against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., a split Texas appeals court panel ruled Sept. 9 (Charlcie Pink v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., et al., […]
LOS ANGELES - Insureds’ claims arising from nursing liability lawsuits are not covered claims with the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) because they failed to meet the deadline filing for claims with an insurer’s liquidator, a California appeals panel held Aug. 30 (HCM Healthcare Inc. and Madera Convalescent Hospital Inc. v. California Insurance Guarantee Association, […]
Case name: Phillips v. Amaca Pty Ltd. Case number: 375 of 2009 Court: New South Wales DDT Judge: John O’Meally
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There is perhaps no other law practice with more incentive to use a sophisticated document management and review system than the personal injury firm. But some firms are not convinced that type of software is worth the investment and are instead opting for less costly generic tools.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 31 granted an injunction pending an appeal to Eli Lilly to prevent several other pharmaceutical companies from launching a generic version of a drug whose patent was found to be infringed but invalid (Eli Lilly and Company v. Actavis Elizabeth LLC, et al., […]
Case: Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A., No. 08-1423, U.S. Sup.; See 9/3/10, Page 53. Respondent’s brief: Filed Aug31 by Omega SARespondent’s brief available 78-100920-013B
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