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"Maybe the costs of giving notice and obtaining a release would significantly impact prices, routes, or services. Or maybe not," U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang wrote, denying a request to dismiss a biometric privacy suit against a trucking company.

The trial court had sided with the physician's efforts to toss the case, finding the negligence and wrongful death claims were barred by the seven-year statute of repose based on the 2006 test results.

The trial court had sided with the physician's efforts to toss the case, finding the negligence and wrongful death claims were barred by the seven-year statute of repose based on the 2006 test results.

"Allowing PBD’s proposed Sherman Act claim...would change the course of the underlying legal theories in this litigation in fundamental ways and entitle defendants to extensive and lengthy additional fact discovery," the judge said.

"There's a bullying label; there's a jealousy label. There's no context given whatsoever. He had the opportunity to do that when he pled, he could have quoted something that she said. He could have provided a specific circumstance, but he didn't do that, and that's his burden," Aaron R. White, an attorney with Boyle Shaughnessy Law, said about allegations filed against a deputy chief staff attorney at the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.

"A plaintiff's underlying claim exists regardless of any procedural time bars the General Assembly prescribes for bringing it. The running of the statute of limitations blocks the plaintiff from suing. It does not relieve the defendant of liability, nor does it create or alter property belonging to the defendant," said North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby.

An undisclosed agreement between the parties appears to be a sticking point as to whether the plaintiff could pursue the allegations.

"The fact that attorneys' fees can quickly exceed the value of disputes is both a sad fact of litigation and also precisely the reason that attorneys' fees for unreasonable and bad faith litigation are awarded," said U.S. District Judge April M. Perry, noting the Seventh Circuit recognized in Wisconsin v. Hotline Industries that "'improper removal prolongs litigation (and jacks up fees).'"

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"The parties have signed a binding term sheet and are in the process of preparing the final agreement. Good cause exists to grant the stay because it will conserve party and judicial resources while the parties prepare the final settlement agreement," said the joint motion to U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the District of Massachusetts.

"What is unclear, however, is how the filing of a notice of appeal or a motion to stay the injunction somehow absolves defendants of complying with this court's Dec. 19, 2024 order that they 'immediately stop' using PIZZA PUFFS. Indeed, it appears that defendants are continuing to use PIZZA PUFFS despite this court’s order that they stop using that term immediately," plaintiff's counsel Erin Westbrook of Saul Ewing said in a trademark dispute against Little Caesars pizza.

"The front side of the 2022 and 2023 contracts contains a disclaimer that an arbitration provision and jury trial waiver are incorporated by reference. Thus, the arbitration provision was incorporated by reference even if plaintiff did not see it," said U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. of North Carolina.

On Thursday, Chief U.S. District Magistrate Judge Donald L. Cabell slashed the overall award of $3.8 million to $1.42 million—the amended amount consisting of $780,000 in compensatory damages and $640,000 in punitive damages—in a fair housing case.

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After federal felony charges against Newton District Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph were dismissed, she referred herself to the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct, where she now faces formal ethics charges.

"Applying Chapter 93A broadly to a nationwide class would undermine these principles and impair the regulatory authority of states outside Massachusetts," U.S. District Judge William Young said, altering his decision to grant class certification in a consumer protection case against Saba University School of Medicine.

"CNA only agreed to pay claim expenses incurred on or after April 23, 2024. However, all of the claim expenses were incurred in connection with the civil action, as DOJ was, at all relevant times, investigating the allegations contained in the sealed qui tam complaint," Mark Rotatori, a partner at Jones Day, wrote on behalf of the plaintiff seeking indemnification.

"Zeikos's counsel made roughly 300 objections during Mr. Goldstein's deposition. ... The objections' numerosity alone might be enough to be considered obstructionist, but upon review of them in the full context of the deposition, the court notes it would fail to sustain about 90% of them," wrote U.S. District Magistrate Judge Keri L. Holleb Hotaling in a business dispute against Walgreens.

On Monday, Jonathan Labukas, a partner with Quarles and Brady in Washington, D.C., filed an appearance for the German-based footwear company in a declaratory action filed by Brooks Sports in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

"Courts, including in this district, have resoundingly rejected this approach, dismissing willful infringement claims where a complaint alleged that a defendant learned of the asserted patents solely through the filing of the complaint," attorneys with DLA Piper wrote on behalf of Apple's motion to dismiss a patent suit brought by SiOnyx over night vision technology.