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January 26, 2023
A North Carolina state court judge scrapped a claim that a doctor was engaging in unfair and deceptive practices after a "messy divorce" from his medical partners, ruling that Tar Heel State law excludes doctors in certain commerce claims.
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January 26, 2023
A new bill filed in the Florida Senate Thursday proposes initiatives to boost the production of workforce housing, in addition to prohibiting rent control in all forms.
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January 26, 2023
The Fifth Circuit has set aside a Federal Aviation Administration rule establishing new certification requirements for pilots trained in certain types of aircraft, saying the agency didn't follow proper notice-and-comment procedures before finalizing its rule.
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January 26, 2023
The family of two Georgia men killed in connected trucking accidents on a South Carolina highway can pursue punitive damages in their wrongful death suits against UPS and others under South Carolina law, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday.
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January 26, 2023
Messer Gas LLC and its subsidiaries were slapped with another two lawsuits in Georgia state court in relation to a fatal liquid nitrogen leak at a Peach State chicken processing plant by individuals claiming they were permanently injured in the incident.
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January 26, 2023
A New York federal judge has refused to toss a solar company's trade secrets suit against its former general counsel over thousands of allegedly stolen documents, finding that the allegations are adequate to survive the pleading stage.
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January 26, 2023
Two law firm owners accused of retaliatory termination and failure to pay earned commissions have lost their bid to have the lawsuit in New Jersey state court tossed after previously telling Law360 the former employee, who accused them of directing her to lie in an affidavit, was "just making up a lot of stuff."
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January 25, 2023
Questioning the lack of a key affidavit and the sufficiency of a deposition, a federal magistrate judge seemed inclined to reject at least some of Pfizer's arguments to shielding its communications with the FBI from two former executives the company has accused of stealing drug research.
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January 25, 2023
A Florida federal judge ruled Wednesday that Walmart destroyed evidence in a case in which a delivery driver lost his legs after a collision with a company tractor at a Walmart Inc. distribution center, finding that the company's failure to preserve the tractor, its maintenance logs and surveillance video constituted negligence.
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January 25, 2023
A former executive at a cloud company acquired by Digital Realty Trust has urged North Carolina's highest court to discard an injunction barring him from the network automation industry for three years, saying a lower court incorrectly evaluated a noncompete clause.
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January 25, 2023
Walmart isn't covered for a lawsuit alleging it was negligent in contracting with a shoddy trucking company whose driver caused a fatal accident, an insurer told a Texas federal court, arguing that the retailer can't make use of an additional-insured provision in the trucking company's policy.
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January 25, 2023
The Georgia State-wide Business Court on Wednesday denied a motion by trial attorney Lloyd N. Bell and his Bell Law Firm to dismiss the remaining claims in a client-stealing case brought by his former co-counsel.
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January 25, 2023
A dentistry owes more than $2 million in employment taxes to the federal government and should be barred from paying its workers' wages without paying the associated liabilities, the U.S. told a California federal court Wednesday.
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January 24, 2023
A recent workers' compensation case awarding benefits to the family of a Pennsylvania public transit worker who died of COVID-19 is a rare victory for plaintiffs struggling to convince judges that the virus was caught during the course of employment and is a decision that could open the door to other types of recovery, plaintiffs attorneys say.
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January 24, 2023
A Texas federal judge tossed out a former Southwest pilot's claim that the airline wrongly denied him a severance package at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but kept in play his claim accusing Southwest of making false promises to him.
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January 24, 2023
The insurer for a design and marketing company cannot escape coverage of an $850,000 arbitration award to a former CEO, the company told a California federal court, saying there was no finding of a deliberate fraudulent act that would exclude coverage of the underlying dispute.
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January 24, 2023
Natural gas producer EQT Corp. claims a former employee has aided a proposed class action's counsel by providing insider information over the company's abandoned wells, marking another reason to disqualify the plaintiffs' law firms from the West Virginia federal litigation.
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January 23, 2023
A former University of Miami compliance officer won't be able to retry his suit claiming he was fired for pushing for an investigation into improper billing within the university's health system, a Florida federal judge ruled Monday.
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January 23, 2023
A grocery chain told an Illinois federal court its insurer can't evade coverage for an underlying suit accusing it of violating the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act, arguing that its policy's exclusion for the violation of laws doesn't extend to BIPA allegations.
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January 23, 2023
The former commissioner of the defunct XFL football league told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday that an attempt to claw back $11 million of his pay belongs in federal court in Connecticut, instead of the bankruptcy court that oversaw the league's Chapter 11.
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January 23, 2023
A proposed antitrust class action against Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division and several of its aerospace subcontractors can continue, a Connecticut federal court ruled, rejecting the companies' bid to toss out allegations that they worked together to restrict hiring and suppress salaries.
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January 23, 2023
An Amazon unit has been sued in Illinois state court by a proposed class of workers claiming it violated the state's biometric privacy law when it stored and profited from their data, collected in screening kiosks used by their employers to comply with COVID-19 restrictions.
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January 23, 2023
A suit filed by Weaver Bennett & Bland PA over an alleged scheme by two former partners to launch a competing operation after pilfering Weaver Bennett clients and employees, was assigned on Friday to a North Carolina state judge specializing in complex business disputes.
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January 23, 2023
Massachusetts would enact an additional corporate income tax on some companies whose top earners receive more than 50 times their median earners under legislation introduced in the state House.
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January 20, 2023
A federal judge has ruled that NortonLifeLock owes the U.S. just a fraction of the $280 million in False Claims Act damages the U.S. requested for alleged overcharges, saying the government proved liability during a four-week bench trial but left a gaping hole when it came to proof of damages.