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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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

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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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The bank said it is “pleased to resolve this matter, which marks another important step in the proactive resolution of litigation and legacy issues.” ” Credit Suisse has been at the center of several global investigations in the past few years.

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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

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

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2021

New Jersey. This clash between the NGA and the Constitution arose because, under the NGA, companies with permits to build new pipelines can use the power of eminent domain to seize property along the pipeline route. New Jersey appealed to the U.S.

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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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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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Law 360

JUNE 7, 2024

entities have defeated multidistrict litigation accusing them of conspiring with Pfizer Inc. to delay releasing a generic alternative to blood pressure drug Lipitor, as a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday criticized the drug purchasers' "speculative" arguments. Multiple Ranbaxy Inc.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Apple customers accusing the company of locking in iPhone users through anticompetitive agreements will have their cases consolidated in New Jersey, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled Friday, finding the parties can coordinate with the U.S.

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Law 360

JUNE 12, 2024

A New Jersey federal judge gave final approval Wednesday to a $93 million settlement between a class of buyers of Lipitor and Pfizer, resolving their claims in sprawling antitrust litigation that Pfizer conspired with a drug manufacturer to delay the release of a cheaper generic version of Lipitor and monopolize the market.

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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

APRIL 10, 2024

The New Jersey federal judge overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's recent iPhone antitrust case against Apple recused himself from the litigation Wednesday, according to a text order posted to the docket reassigning the case.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Attorneys representing a class of buyers in antitrust litigation against Pfizer over the cholesterol medication Lipitor have asked a New Jersey federal judge to approve their request for $31 million in fees after the two sides agreed to a $93 million settlement in February.

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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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Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2024

Renewable residential energy company Vision Solar LLC is seeking bankruptcy protection in New Jersey, listing between $100 million and $500 million in estimated debt as it faces sprawling litigation over accusations of deceptive marketing and business practices.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Gathering records and proof of your injury is a crucial step in ensuring you do not miss the filing deadline for personal injury lawsuits in New Jersey.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has consolidated nine pending class actions against Samsung Electronics of America Inc. into an MDL in New Jersey that alleges the company failed to take adequate data security measures, resulting in multiple data breaches.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday established three tracks for cases to follow in the multidistrict litigation that accuses drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers of illegally inflating the price of insulin.

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Law 360

APRIL 5, 2023

A New Jersey judge declined to fully throw out any of investors' claims that Bausch Health Cos. fraudulently transferred its vision care assets to Bausch & Lomb, its subsidiary, and began to spin the unit off to complicate recovery efforts for prior securities fraud litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 14, 2021

The panel will feature New Jersey State Solicitor Jeremy Feigenbaum, Constitutional Litigation Center president Bob Peck, and (our very own) SCOTUSblog editor James Romoser. It will be moderated by Lisa Soronen, the SLLC’s executive director. Click here for registration information.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While Yale won't like being the cause for litigation, I have a funny feeling they know a few good lawyers. Yale Daily News ]. New Jersey's Institute for Social Justice says denying the formerly incarcerated the right to vote is a human rights violation. Learn the legal angles now and wow your soon-to-be ex-friends!

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

New Jersey Mayor Mohamed Khairullah, a Muslim American who was denied entry to the White House Eid al-Fitr event despite a previous invitation, sued multiple US government agencies Monday, including the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Secret Service, to end the Federal Terrorist Screening Dataset (FTSD).

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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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Law 360

JANUARY 12, 2023

multidistrict litigation have asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss the third amended complaint brought by New Jersey victims under the Torture Victim Protection Act, arguing that the claims do not contain any specific facts of murder and torture by Colombian officials.

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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. And on X (R.I.P. Twitter), the FTC is taking credit for that.

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LegalReader

MARCH 18, 2022

The lawsuit recounts how 29-year-old Jajuan Henderson was accosted and shot by a group of plainclothes police officers while parallel parked outside his own home.

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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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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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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Talc injury claimants in the Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey bankruptcy judge Monday that the company filed for bankruptcy as a litigation strategy after getting hit with more than 38,000 personal injury suits, and that the case should be tossed on bad faith grounds.

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Law 360

JUNE 18, 2021

New Jersey Assembly members are poised to pass a bill Monday aimed at extending insurance coverage to events like the coronavirus outbreak, but experts told Law360 that it could instead give insurers another angle to add to their winning record in pandemic coverage litigation.

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