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law.com | Emily Cousins
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1 day ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
At the tail end of the legislative session, a judicial nomination bill was passed that advocates say would make Connecticut’s judicial nomination process the most transparent in the nation. The Judicial Selection Committee has long released an annual report to the Judiciary Committee with demographic information of candidates who were interviewed, recommended and denied recommendation. Now, House Bill 7041 stipulates the committee would also have to include "areas of professional experience."
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2 days ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Attorneys at Kennedy, Johnson, Schwab & Roberge secured a $10 million verdict on Friday in Waterbury for their client who lost most of the fingers on his right hand after it was damaged in a machine. Mark Garbitini worked at Rand-Whitney Container LLC, a corrugated box factory in Waterbury. While Garbitini was loading sheets of cardboard into a machine, a jam occurred, court records show.
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3 days ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Harvard University's litigation against the Trump administration for the alleged wrongful revocation of federal research funding and grants ramped up as the institution asked the court to issue a permanent injunction. The legal battle began after Harvard refused to comply with the Trump administration's demands, which the university claims would have allowed the federal government to commandeer the institution.
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3 days ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Emily Cousins |Marianna Wharry |Guy DeMarco
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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4 days ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Paul Hastings attorneys have entered appearances in an ERISA lawsuit pending in the District of Connecticut. Google faces allegations of discrimination after it allegedly wrongfully terminated an employee shortly after he received a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis. Peter Martin, the plaintiff, claimed Google withheld around $2 million in earned commissions and more than $3 million in company-issued life insurance.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Alyssa Aquino |Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman |Michelle Morgante |Emily Cousins
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave President Donald Trump the green light to continue enforcing his reciprocal tariffs on most global imports while its appellate judges mull over a request to stay a court order striking the duties down.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Janel Grant, a former employee of World Wrestling Entertainment who alleged she was raped, trafficked and groomed by former CEO Vince McMahon voluntarily dismissed her claims against one of the defendants, former executive John Laurinaitis. According to a statement attributed to representatives of Grant and Laurinaitis, the former executive at the WWE agreed to "cooperate and provide evidence" in the case against McMahon and the WWE.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Emily Cousins |Dan Roe |Amanda O'Brien |Lisa Willis
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Harvard University agreed to relinquish 175-year-old images of enslaved persons as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a direct descendant. The resolution announced Wednesday releases the daguerreotypes, a predecessor to the modern photograph, of Tamara Lanier's relatives, Renty and his daughter Delia. In addition, five other images of enslaved people will also be transferred to South Carolina to be publicly displayed.
