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2 days ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Connecticut attorney Wesley S. Spears was suspended for one year after a former client accused him of requesting nude photographs. This adds to the lawyer's current two-year suspension for allegedly making false claims against judges and other state officials.
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3 days ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
The Connecticut Appellate Court reversed a lower court’s decision that directed the jury to rule in favor of the defendant, but the plaintiff missed out on reviving nearly half of its causes of action because it did not address them in the briefs. In the underlying suit, the plaintiff, One Eight-Five Stagg Associates, a general partnership, sued Linwood Avenue III LLC, Charles P.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Real estate and environmental attorneys and other professionals have worked to replace the Transfer Act with new regulations to cut back the costly obstacles to cleanup sites with hazardous waste and sell properties. The Transfer Act is notorious for what some attorneys say is excessive red tape for buyers and sellers of property in the state.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Orthopaedic Specialists of Connecticut was hit with a data breach class action after a hacker accessed 22,541 patients’ information on March 2. While the health care provider claimed it took immediate action to prevent further damage, the complaint argued it did not have the correct safeguards to prevent the breach in the first place. This complaint surfaced on Law.com Radar.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
A disagreement over the allocation of attorneys' fees has landed two Connecticut law firms in court. The Law Offices of Levine & Levine represented Francesca Pelc in a workers' compensation claim from 2007 through 2018. In 2016, the workers' compensation commissioner approved an arrangement where Pelc's workers' compensation insurer, The Hartford, would send Pelc's weekly benefit checks to Levine & Levine so they could deduct legal fees.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
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 |Lisa Willis
The Miami attorney—Alejandro Brito of Brito Law, who secured a $15 million settlement in the Trump v. ABC News & George Stephanopoulos defamation case—now represents celebrity physician Dr. Carlon M. Colker and Peak Wellness Inc. in a new defamation lawsuit against a plaintiff lawyer and law firm.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
The Connecticut Supreme Court declined to review the $1.4 billion verdict in favor of the Sandy Hook plaintiffs against Alex Jones. Now, Jones wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn what is believed to be the state’s largest libel award. Jones asked the state Appellate Court to extend the stay the collection of the affirmed $1.3 billion award to family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one former FBI officer who was on the scene the day of the massacre.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
A Connecticut federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to four international students who claimed in a class action that their student visas were wrongfully terminated. More than 1,500 foreign university students across the United States have had their student visas revoked by the Department of Homeland Security "unilaterally and inexplicably" since the beginning of April, the complaint claimed.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Emily Cousins
Festival Fun Parks LLC was hit with a consumer class action for allegedly violating Connecticut's ticket scalping law, which forbids businesses from surprising customers with a service charge. This case comes as a rising trend of lawsuits against other ticketing companies, like Live Nation Entertainment Inc., are also accused of violating consumer protection laws by allegedly hiding mandatory fees that appear at the end of the purchase process.
