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Faulty Expert Testimony Dooms Suit Against Norfolk Southern

By Y. Peter Kang

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out a suit seeking to hold Norfolk Southern liable for a longtime worker's hip injuries, saying the plaintiff's medical expert submitted a report that did not properly discuss how the alleged negligence caused his injuries.

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Ex-Holland & Knight Atty Wants Another Depo From Ex-Wife

By Hailey Konnath

A former Holland & Knight LLP partner battling Pennsylvania personal injury firm Fritz & Bianculli LLC in litigation stemming from an affair and his messy divorce has pushed for his ex-wife to sit for another deposition, arguing that she wrongly refused to answer relevant questions when she was first deposed.

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Family Alleging Firm's Girardi Conflict Denied Partial Win

By Craig Clough

A Los Angeles judge Tuesday denied a family's motion seeking judgment on declaratory relief claims in a $1.8 million malpractice lawsuit against a firm that represented it in recovering millions lost in Girardi Keese's embezzlement scandal, saying disputed facts remain in the "unusual" case.

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Panel Weighs Ga. High Court Ruling In Sham Donor Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

Customers who accused a sperm bank of selling sperm without disclosing the true medical and criminal histories of donors urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to revive their lawsuits Tuesday, arguing the dismissals were based on a misreading of a 2020 decision from the state's high court.

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21 AGs Push DEA To Schedule 'Designer Xanax'

By Lauren Berg

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and 20 other state attorneys general are urgently asking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule an unregulated substance known as "designer Xanax" under the Controlled Substances Act, saying it is contributing to overdose deaths and posing a growing threat to public health.

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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty Pleads Not Guilty To Chicago Charges

By Lauraann Wood

Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin pled not guilty Tuesday to a Chicago indictment accusing him of helping Tom Girardi violate court orders to disburse settlement funds to certain plane crash clients and concealing the theft of those funds.

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3rd Circ. Upholds Conviction After Traffic Stop 'Small Talk'

By Elizabeth Daley

A man sentenced to 10 years in prison after police found guns and drugs in his car during a traffic stop can't have the evidence suppressed even though the police engaged him in small talk unrelated to the stop, the Third Circuit affirmed Tuesday, finding that the rapport-building conversation was warranted.

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Airbnb Guests Oppose Arbitration Of Secret Recording Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

Six women who claim they were secretly filmed during an "all-girls stay" at a Palm Springs, California, Airbnb are opposing the company's bid to push their claims into arbitration, telling a state court that federal law explicitly prohibits anyone from forcing a sexual misconduct claim into arbitration.

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Ga. Salon's Ex-Worker Sues Over 'Egregious' Sexual Abuse

By Chart Riggall

An Atlanta hair salon has been hit with a lawsuit from a former employee alleging that she was "systematically preyed upon and sexually assaulted" by its owner, who she says pressured her into performing sexual favors and retaliated against other workers who tried to intervene.

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Nurses Say They Were Underpaid, Overworked At Hospital

By Emily Brill

A Chicagoland hospital network pressured its nurses to work late and through their breaks without pay because it was so understaffed, a group of current and former nurses claimed in Illinois federal court, looking to recoup the pay they say they lost through a wage and hour lawsuit.

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USDOT Flags States' Lapses In Deadly Fla. Truck Crash Probe

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday called out three states' apparent failures in enforcing licensing standards for commercial truck drivers following last week's deadly highway crash in Florida that left three people dead and instantly became a flash point for the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies.

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Insurers Avoid Coverage For Alleged $8.5M Judgment Scheme

By Abraham Gross

Two insurers owed no coverage to companies facing abuse of process claims, a Minnesota federal court ruled in two separate cases decided on the same issues, finding that commercial general liability policies' coverage for malicious prosecution did not apply.

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Ejected NCAA Fan Ends Negligence, Civil Rights Lawsuit

By Elaine Brise帽o

A woman ejected from an NCAA Division III Final Four game at Capital University in Ohio has shelved her negligence and civil rights lawsuit against the organization and several individual defendants.

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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI

After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.

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Morris Manning Faces $5M Ga. RICO Suit Over Tax Strategy

By Emily Sawicki

Morris Manning & Martin LLP is facing allegations of racketeering and tax fraud in a suit brought in Georgia state court by three investors that names a number of professional services firms.

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LegalZoom Launches Patent Filing Service

By Matt Perez

Online legal services provider LegalZoom announced Tuesday the launch of a streamlined alternative to traditional patent filing through its Arizona-based law firm LZ Legal Services.

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Trump Says Fed's Cook 'Must Resign' Amid Loan Fraud Claim

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump's Federal Housing Finance Agency chief on Wednesday accused Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook of potential mortgage fraud and said he has referred the matter to federal prosecutors, prompting Trump to call for Cook's immediate resignation — a call she has rejected.

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Ga. Court Drops Greenberg Traurig Suit After Atty's Death

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia Court of Appeals said Wednesday that it will toss an appeal in a legal malpractice suit filed by a record executive against Greenberg Traurig LLP and its former music law guru Joel Katz after the parties were unable to identify a successor for Katz following his death earlier this year.

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Error-Filled Pro Se Recusal Bid Draws Conn. Judge's Ire

By Emily Sawicki

A Connecticut federal judge will not docket a pro se recusal request in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud action accusing a man of skimming nearly $1 million in investments designated for hotel repair work, saying in a minute order that the defendant otherwise has counsel and submitted a meritless, error-riddled bid.

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Abrego Garcia Seeks To Toss Feds' 'Vindictive' Charges

By Britain Eakin

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the government erroneously deported to El Salvador in March, has asked a Tennessee federal judge to dismiss federal human smuggling charges he contends constitute retaliation for challenging his removal.

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NC's Cap On Med Mal Damages Is Constitutional, Panel Rules

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina state appeals court ruled Wednesday that a state law capping compensatory damages in certain medical malpractice lawsuits at $500,000 is constitutional, handing a defeat to a woman seeking to recoup her full $7.5 million jury verdict stemming from the loss of her unborn baby.

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In Illinois, Public Defender Welcomes Sea Change In Structure

By Steven Trader

Illinois is set to receive the first overhaul of its public defense system in 75 years, and Champaign County Chief Public Defender Elisabeth Pollock is "very much looking forward" to it, she told 蓝莓视频.

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