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Settlement: Cemetery agrees to pay $100 million settlement in burial grounds lawsuit.

Home Page > > Settlements > > Grave Desecration West Palm Beach, FL: (May-16-08) Several families brought charges against Menorah Gardens, a West Palm Beach cemetery and Houston-based Service Corporation International, alleging that cemetery managers oversold and misplaced plots, and Read more »

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Settlement: Estate of Seth Tobias: $25 million estate to be split as part of settlement.

Home Page > > Settlements > > Estate of Seth Tobias Palm Beach, FL: (June-16-08) A settlement has been reached between Filomena Tobias, widow of frequent CNBC commentator Seth Tobias, and the hedge fund mogul’s brothers, Samuel and Spence Tobias. Read more »

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Possible Case: Sperm Donor Deemed ‘Father’ and Must Pay Child Support

Home Page > > Potential Lawsuit > > Sperm Donor Agreement Absolving Donor of Financial Responsibilty Not Enforcable A sperm donor, with the equivalent of a prenuptial agreement, has been ordered to pay child support, by a New Mexico Court Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: West Virginia Child Advocate Office Faces Class Action over Child Support

January 6 2010 Charleston, WV: A class action lawsuit has been filed in Kanawah County on behalf of all children whose child support is collected through the West Virginia Bureau for Child Support Enforcement, a division of the West Virginia Read more »

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Law Suit Filed: Class Action Filed Against CitiMortgage

March 16 2011 Philadelphia, PA: A complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of all New Jersey homeowners whose mortgage loans have been serviced by CitiMortgage, Inc., and who, Read more »

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Settlement: Woman to pay $48,530 settlement in TennCare lawsuit.

Home Page > > Settlements > > Food Stamp Fraud Blount County, TN: (May-05-08) The State Department of Finance and Administration brought a lawsuit against Angela L. Read more »

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Settlement: Baywatch star reaches settlement in family lawsuit.

Home Page > > Settlements > > David Hasselhoff Divorce Los Angeles, CA: (Apr-17-08) Baywatch celebrity David Hasselhoff and his wife of 16 years Pamela Bach have been locked in divorce proceedings over the last few months. Sources close to Read more »

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Settlement: Greene County to pay $85,000 settlement in trespassing lawsuit.

Home Page > > Settlements > > Sheriff Interfered With Custody Battle Greene County, VA: (Mar-24-08) Michael Morris brought a lawsuit against the Greene County sheriff’s department, alleging that the deputies interfered in a custody battle. Records state that Sheriff’s Read more »

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INSIGHT-The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill

By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES | Mon May 20, 2013 12:59am EDT LOS ANGELES May 20 (Reuters) – In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a Read more »

IP Roundup: Debating Bad Patents, Not Patent Trolls

By&nbspBrian ZabcikAll Articles The Litigation DailyMay 17, 2013 Patent trolls have been the subject of increasing debate, but should we be focusing on bad patents instead? That’s the interesting question posed at a recent panel discussion on patent-assertion entities at Read more »

Judge Revives $774 Million Securities Case Against JPMorgan

For the lawyers fighting Dexia SA’s mortgage-backed securities lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jed Rakoff giveth, and Rakoff taketh away.Last month, when we named Daniel Slifkin and J. Read more »

The Careerist: Harvard Law Ranks #1 in World

Are you still fussing with that U.S. News & World Report ranking of law schools? How provincial! We live in the global economy, so what really matters is how your law school ranks internationally Read more »

For Detroit in crisis, next six weeks determine bankruptcy fate

By Bernie Woodall and Karen Pierog DETROIT | Sun May 19, 2013 4:49pm EDT DETROIT May 19 (Reuters) – Bond restructurings, negotiated settlements with bondholders and bond insurers, and tough talk with unionized workers are on the agenda as Detroit’s Read more »

Kirkland Cleans Up on PE Shop’s $1.4 Billion Buy

By&nbspBrian BaxterContactAll Articles The Am Law DailyMay 15, 2013 Kirkland & Ellis clinched its latest large M&A deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as well as Read more »

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