Civil Litigation
Civil Remedies Articles
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At first, the challenge seemed formidable. Our clients, two Minnesota individuals, claimed that they had been fraudulently induced to lend millions of dollars to another individual, a resident of the State of Colorado. The borrower invested most of the money in real estate located in Montana, Idaho and Colorado, and was moving the rest of it through several banks in these and other states. -
This article discusses the ability for groups to insure agaist punitive damage awards. -
A Pennsylvania landlord was recently ordered to pay $11,790 to tenants he evicted. -
How do I choose an attorney? Choosing an attorney should be done carefully. You will work with an attorney clos. -
This products liability report focuses on the legislative proposals that have been recently made. -
Class actions can put defendants under enormous and undue pressure to settle or face a crippling verdict. That pressure is intensified when there is the specter of class-wide punitive damages. These awards can serve the state's legitimate interest in punishing and deterring unlawful conduct, and so punitive damages cannot be avoided completely in high-stakes litigation. -
In a recent decision, Utah Federal District Court Judge Dale Kimball sustained two employees' claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress against their former employer. The lawsuit was filed by a husband and wife who both worked for the same employer. They alleged that the employer's treatment of them after learning that the husband had AIDS was so callous and manipulative as to be actionable under the very high standard governing Utah's common-law tort of "outrage." -
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a back pay award or settlement must be taxed as wages in the year in which the amount is paid and may not be attributed to the prior years for which the amount was intended to be compensation. The case involved the Cleveland Indians baseball team which paid $2.7 million in back pay to 22 baseball players for salary that should have been paid 7-8 years earlier. -
This month, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an opinion clarifying the requirements for a claim of intenti. -
Last June, in the context of a mortgage foreclosure case, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court s.