• November 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

    The State of Class Action Waivers in Employment Arbitration Agreements

    Employers throughout Pennsylvania and the country routinely utilize arbitration agreements in the management of employees to minimize potential expense and exposure of litigation in courts.

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  • November 17, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Unpublished Opinions for the Week of November 21, 2016

    07-2-1820 Kleeblatt, Galler, Abramson, L.L.C. v. Feuer N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (12 pp.) Plaintiff appealed from an order vacating default judgment, a February order denying

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  • In the Matter of J.W.W., 01-16-00394-CV (TexApp Dist 11/03/2016)

    Publication Date: 2016-11-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-11-03
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, First District
    Judge: TERRY JENNINGS JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01-16-00394-CV

    On Appeal from the 313th District CourtHarris County, TexasTrial Court Case Nos. 2015-06714J-Amended and 2015-07198J-AmendedPanel consists of

  • Lemus v. Lynch

    Publication Date: 2016-11-16
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-09-26
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Johnnie B. Rawlinson and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges, and Michael A. Ponsor,* Senior District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Florence Weinberg (argued) and Andrew K. Nietor, San Diego, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Carmel A. Morgan (argued) and Gray J. Newkirk, Trial Attorneys; Luis E. Perez, Senior Litigation Counsel; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 12-73654

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 12026 JOSE DANIEL LEMUS, Petitioner, v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney

  • Schatzki v. Weiser Capital Management, LLC, 10 Civ. 4685

    Publication Date: 2016-11-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Robert Sweet
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiffs By: Albert K. Lawler, Esq., Christopher S. Rooney, Esq., Oliver Edwards, VII, Esq., Lawler Mahon & Rooney LLP, New York, NY. By: James J. Mahon, Esq., Becker & Poliakoff, PA, New York, NY.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants By: Scott I. Unger, Esq., Jonathan A. Scobie, Esq., Stark & Stark, P.C., Lawrenceville, NJ.

    Case Number: 10 Civ. 4685

    Cite as: Schatzki v. Weiser Capital Management, LLC, 10 Civ. 4685, NYLJ 1202772251181, at *1 (SDNY, Decided November 9, 2016) CASENAME Debra Schatzki and BPP W

  • In the Interest of D. M B. A. M.

    Publication Date: 2016-11-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Pope, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Calandra Harps, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Robert Jewell, Special Assistant Attorney General, Moultrie, for appellee. Other party representation: David Herndon and Mickey Waller, Moultrie.

    Case Number: A16A1295

    The juvenile court failed to provide the requisite findings of fact in its order terminating mother's parental rights to her two minor

  • Stroud v. Hall Cnty.

    Publication Date: 2016-11-15
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julius Hulsey and Theodore Robinson Hulsey, Oliver Mahar LLP, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana Maine Freeman Mathis Gary, Atlanta, William Blalock Stewart, Melvin Frost, Gainesville, and Coleen Hosack, Forest Park, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A1062

    The Court partially reversed the grant of summary judgment to county in plaintiffs' suit alleging that county's maintenance of a road that abutted their property caused flooding and other damage

  • People v. Valenzuela

    Publication Date: 2016-11-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-11-14
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Mary Sanchez, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Stephen P. Lipson, Public Defender, Michael C. McMahon, Chief Deputy, and William Quest, Senior Deputy Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: 2d Crim. No. B269027

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 11977 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LUIS DONICIO VALENZUE

  • Centinela Freeman Emergency Medical Associates v. Health Net of California, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2016-11-14
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2016-11-14
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michelman & Robinson, Andrew H. Selesnick, Damaris L. Medina, Robin James and Jason O. Cheuk for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Reed Smith, Kurt C. Peterson, Kenneth N. Smersfelt, Zareh A. Jaltorossian; Grignon Law Firm and Margaret M. Grignon for Defendant and Respondent Blue Cross of California doing business as Anthem Blue Cross.

    Case Number:

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 11965 CENTINELA FREEMAN EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v.

  • November 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

    Applying Borrowing Statute Notwithstanding Agreement

    It may seem anomalous, at least to those unfamiliar with New York's borrowing statute, that sophisticated parties can agree to apply New York's substantive and procedural law, but a

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