Law 360

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

asked a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to issue an injunction blocking the federal government from litigating a whistleblower suit in Ohio over the filling of illegal opioid prescriptions until the bankruptcy court can approve a reorganization plan. Rite Aid Corp.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Initially, I wondered how this lawyer had so much time to attend court for observational purposes as well as handle all of his client files. However, on second thought, I reasoned that attending court like this lawyer did was a great use of his time. However, I observed various advocacy skills I also employed when I entered practice.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 15, 2022

Public officials must release police disciplinary records in New Jersey when the public’s interest in them outweighs an officer’s confidentiality concerns, the state’s top court has ruled. We will have to keep litigating because police departments are so secretive. The ruling was issued Monday.

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Patently O

MAY 3, 2021

20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. Rather than reaching the merits, the district court dismissed the case on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed. by Dennis Crouch.

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Law 360

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Beasley Allen Law Firm needs to disclose alleged litigation funding fueling its litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder even if that funding was not given directly to the firm since the disclosure rules apply to "parties" and not "law firms," J&J has told a New Jersey federal court.

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Law 360

JUNE 17, 2021

The District of New Jersey's wide-reaching proposal to require automatic disclosure of third-party litigation finance poses several problems for attorneys and litigants alike and should be nipped in the bud, say Sarah Williams and Marlon Becerra at Validity Finance.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 27, 2022

After beginning his litigation career as an assistant state’s attorney and as an insurance defense attorney, in 2019 John Tolley decided to form his own firm, JT Law. JT Law is now a three-partner firm that handles insurance, civil litigation and immigration cases in Florida, New York and New Jersey.

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Law 360

JUNE 6, 2024

A Mississippi plaintiffs firm urged a New Jersey federal court on Thursday to quash a subpoena served by Johnson & Johnson requesting that the firm turn over documents related to litigation funding and its communication with media outlets, calling the subpoena "draconian" and improper as the firm is not a party to the pharmaceutical giant's current (..)

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Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

Johnson & Johnson and the Beasley Allen Law Firm have accused each other by turns of "gamesmanship" and "unscrupulous conduct" in New Jersey courts in a fight over whether the firm should be disqualified from talcum powder litigation for allegedly collaborating in secret with a former J&J outside counsel.

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Law 360

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Beasley Allen Law Firm, the steering committee of talc plaintiffs suing Johnson & Johnson, and a third-party law firm urged the New Jersey federal court this week to reject a bid from the pharmaceutical company to reinstate subpoenas seeking evidence of alleged third-party litigation funding.

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LegalReader

JUNE 15, 2021

New Jersey transit authority faces lawsuit for hiring defendant with sexual harassment history.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently decided to uphold a ruling that will award a woman who was attacked on an NJ Transit bus $1.8 million.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Though some drug companies have been reluctant to delist certain patents from the Orange Book, the District Court of New Jersey just ordered Teva to delist 5 of its patents that it deemed improperly listed. First, the Court dealt with the antitrust issue that Teva raised in a Motion to Dismiss. And on X (R.I.P.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 11, 2024

There has been significant litigation against offshore wind projects. At the state level, 8 municipalities sued the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in New Jersey state court over its review and certification of the Atlantic Shores project.

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The Cloud Court Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

On October 14th, I was invited to present to the annual conference of the Certified Court Reporters Association of New Jersey (CCRA-NJ). The sessions, in order, were: Better Than AI; Steno, Social Media, and Self-Care; my session on how AI is already changing court reporting, and finally, Addressing Ethical Issues Related to AI.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As the Supreme Court winds down for the holiday break, one thing that has not slowed is the flow of litigation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The court has not granted relief in any of those cases. The Supreme Court agreed with the diocese and issued an injunction to block Cuomo’s order.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

So far, the Supreme Court has not granted certiorari in any patent cases for its 2021-2022 Term. On September 27, 2021, the court is meeting privately for what is known as the “long conference” to decide the fate of the petitions for writ of certiorari that have piled-up over the summer. by Dennis Crouch. Patreon, Inc.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Many courts that draw commercial litigation, from New Jersey to the Ninth Circuit, still had many judges missing, and a new type of report, meant to provide real-time snapshots of judges’ major windfalls, can take more than a year to be posted, flouting federal law.

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Law 360

JUNE 18, 2024

Information about the Beasley Allen Law Firm's litigation funding and settlement communications is relevant and necessary to resolving long-running multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products and so should be turned over, the pharmaceutical giant has told a New Jersey federal court.

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Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2024

A New Jersey state court has sided with McElroy Deutsch and stayed all litigation between the law firm and two former executives, including both the firm's fraud claims and discrimination counterclaims made against it, while a related bankruptcy case plays out.

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Law 360

MAY 14, 2024

was hit with sanctions after its chief executive officer failed to sit for a court-ordered deposition in sprawling multidistrict litigation taking place in New Jersey over generic drugs that U.S. Chinese drug firm Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co. authorities say were contaminated with carcinogens.

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Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2024

told a New Jersey federal court Friday that sanctions authorizing two adverse jury instructions in multidistrict litigation over generic drugs contaminated with carcinogens should be overturned, arguing the plaintiffs did not allege the bad faith required for such a harsh penalty.

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Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court Thursday to throw out a Chapter 11 filing from its former chief financial officer, who has been sent to prison for stealing over $1 million from the firm, slamming it as a bad faith "tactical maneuver" to stall ongoing civil litigation.

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

The Beasley Allen Law Firm and Johnson & Johnson continue to spar over the firm and attorney Andy Birchfield's role in the long-running federal and state mass torts over talcum powder injuries, with the firm calling J&J out on Tuesday for "prodding" the New Jersey courts to boot the lawyers from the litigation.

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Law 360

MAY 31, 2024

have been hit with a derivative suit in New Jersey federal court over revelations of fraud at the company, which has led to other litigation, including actions launched by the U.S. The current and former top brass of Nigerian fintech company Tingo Group Inc. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

An insurer for bankrupt housewares retailer Bed Bath & Beyond will cover up to $10 million in legal costs incurred by company executives who were subpoenaed or named as defendants in litigation connected to the store, a New Jersey bankruptcy court said.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

has agreed to shell out $93 million to put to rest Lipitor buyers' claims in sprawling antitrust multidistrict litigation over the cholesterol medication that stretches back more than a decade, according to a motion filed Wednesday in New Jersey federal court. Pfizer Inc.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

At the other end of the spectrum, New Jersey and Pennsylvania provide no homestead exemptions, while Virginia and Kentucky allow just $5,000. Another is that it would turn any existing court judgment into a lien on a person’s home, automatically and retroactively. Morris Institute of Justice, in a commentary.

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LawSites

MAY 17, 2022

Two years ago, the legal and business news company ALM launched Law.com Radar , a service of the legal news site Law.com that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, rather than by human editors. Automating A Manual Process.

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Law 360

JULY 22, 2024

The Beasley Allen Law Firm may represent plaintiffs in multicounty talc injury litigation in New Jersey state court, after a judge found Johnson & Johnson failed to show a former Faegre Drinker outside counsel shared information he learned representing the company in earlier talc litigation.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The New Jersey-based court reporting company Veritext Legal Solutions , which already provides a variety of deposition and litigation support solutions, has acquired Canadian court reporting company Reportex and its family of brands in British Columbia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ”

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The New Jersey Supreme Court has said it will review the way a trial court awarded attorney fees to cover the cost of litigation after a dispute between an elevator company and a Newark real estate firm was already settled in arbitration.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lawyers can be very expensive for ordinary litigants, and some types of civil matters are more conducive to parties representing themselves rather than engaging counsel. However, courts sometimes treat lawyers and pro se parties differently when managing their dockets, and this might seem unfair to some people.

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Law 360

JUNE 24, 2022

The New Jersey Supreme Court in recent months opened the door to reinstating disbarred attorneys and ensured public access to law enforcement records, while lower appellate courts blessed nondisparagement clauses in employment-related settlement agreements and put the burden on personal injury litigants to justify conditions for defense medical examinations. (..)

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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Patently O

MAY 23, 2022

Prior to the mid-1990s, patent litigation took place in district court silos. District judges managed these cases based on their general litigation background, which rarely extended to patent cases. As a result, each patent case reinvented the patent litigation wheel to a significant extent.

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