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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania awarded almost $2 million in attorney fees to plaintiffs counsel from Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin, following a prevailing $16 million wrongful conviction verdict. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sánchez of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania awarded plaintiff James Dennis' counsel $1.84 million in attorney fees, a slight reduction of $1,223 from the requested amount.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
A New Jersey municipal court judge has been suspended for two months without pay over posts on his personal Facebook account. The New Jersey Supreme Court ordered Tuesday that Judge Robert M. LePore be suspended from his judicial duties for two months without pay, starting June 4, according to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct's recommendations.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has allowed an antitrust suit to proceed against the manufacturer of a popular herbicide, citing claims that the company blocked generic suppliers from entering the marketplace through an exclusive rebate program.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
In a record year for high-dollar verdicts in Philadelphia, attorney Gary Samms was able to amass numerous defense wins in high-exposure medical malpractice cases, keeping the fight alive for many of the city's embattled health care facilities. It would be an understatement to say that The Legal Intelligencer's Attorney of the Year finalist spent his year in the courtroom.
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3 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
Employment discrimination suits against life insurance marketing companies and related defendants are cleared to proceed in state court after a New Jersey appellate court concluded the parties' mass arbitration agreements failed to explicitly indicate that the parties agreed to waive their rights to a jury trial.
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4 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
Bucking years of precedent, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that the Workers' Compensation Act (WCA) doesn't bar the recovery of certain benefits when a worker dies from their work-related injuries. In a 4-3 decision on Friday, the high court concluded that the estate of Kristina Steets, who died following complications from a workplace injury, was entitled to Steets' so-called specific loss benefits, which cover disfigurement and injury.
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4 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
Declining to address questions regarding valid copyright registrations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a summary judgment order based on the premise that a software management company's code copyright was invalid because of inaccuracies. On Wednesday, the federal appellate court determined there was a factual dispute regarding whether the plaintiff, LADS Network Solutions, had actual knowledge of an error in its source code for a trademark application.
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4 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
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 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
A Philadelphia law firm is owed nearly $700,000 for its representation of reorganized debtors per the parties' stipulation from over a decade ago, a federal judge ruled. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania affirmed a bankruptcy court's decision granting the law firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads' motion to enforce a stipulation it shared with debtors it had represented in bankruptcy litigation.
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4 weeks ago | 
law.com | Riley Brennan
Target was hit with a trademark and trade dress infringement lawsuit over its Kindfull pet food line, alleging the retailer copied the plaintiff's pet food line after she applied to be a part of the company's "Forward Founders" program.
