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  • Ferguson v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-10-28
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    Date Filed: 2013-10-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard C. Tallman, Richard R. Clifton, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis A. Bottini, Jr. and Albert Y. Chang (argued), Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini LLP, San Diego, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellees. Kate Comerford Todd and Tyler R. Green, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Andrew J. Pincus, Evan M. Tager, Archis A. Parasharami, and Richard B. Katskee, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
    for defendant: Peter W. Homer (argued) and Christopher King, HomerBonner P.A., Miami, Florida; Paul D. Fogel and Felicia Yu, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, California; Kevin P. Jacobs, Herron, Jacobs, & Ortiz, Miami, Florida, for Defendants-Appellants.
    Case Number: No. 11-56965

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 11785 KEVIN FERGUSON, on behalf of himself and all others arly situated; SANDRA L. MUNIZ, on behalf of herself and all others

  • October 24, 2013 | The Recorder

    In Practice: The Slow Death of 'Gentry'

    California law favors arbitration. But its courts have been traditionally hostile to the Federal Arbitration Act. Especially that part about the FAA requiring that "private agreements t

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  • September 6, 2013 |

    Appeals Court Upholds Remittitur of $19 Million Punitive Damages Award Against Insurer to $350,000 Based on Maximum 10:1 Ratio of Punitive to Compensatory Damages

    A California appellate court has affirmed a trial court’s remittitur of a punitive damages award against an insurer from $19 million to $350,000…

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  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lorie Williams-Smith Georgia Legal Services, Adel, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Jessica Clark, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1239

    The victim's testimony alone was sufficient to sustain the defendant's armed robbery convi

  • Janasik v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Merchant The Merchant Law Firm PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carmen Smith, Solicitor General, R. Leon Benham, and David Ginsburg, Assistant Solicitors General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0253

    Absent a transcript, the State presumably made the requisite showing for admission of a previous DUI conviction to show the DUI-less safe driving defendant's ' "identity, motive, scheme, bent of min

  • Williams Bros. Lumber Co. LLC d/b/a HD Supply Lumber and Bldg. Materials v. Malloy

    Publication Date: 2013-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Busch and Jeffrey Leeper Busch & Reed PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Conerly and Randall Parian Smith Conerly LLP, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0743

    The trial court erred in denying the plaintiff's motion for j.n.o.v. following a jury verdict in favor of the defendant, as the plaintiff made the required prima facie showing to recover on the note

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Smith, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Marc Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0199

    The trial court did not err in admitting a letter the defendant wrote to a witness about the crimes because circumstantial evidence established its authent

  • Raymond v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raina Nadler, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, Amelia Pray District Attorney's Office, and John Butters, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0014

    The trial court properly found that the State did not violate discovery rules because the defendant's previous counsel had seen the four boxes of documents at issue and the trial court gave trial co

  • June 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Mass-Tort Litigation Leaves Philadelphia, Rises Elsewhere

    Editor's note: This is the first part of a three-part series about the state of mass-tort litigation in Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, recently a hot

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  • April 24, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Years After Supreme Court Decision, 'Caperton' Continues

    Some Supreme Court cases, like old soldiers, never die, but unlike old soldiers, neither do they fade away. Consider Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company. In 2009, a divided Supreme Court he

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