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The Pennsylvania General Assembly recently revised and Governor Tom Wolf signed into law important changes to the Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act (CASPA), //

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently clarified the meaning of "cargo" under the Montreal Convention.

A recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York addressed the recurring conflict between the goals of bankruptcy law and the goals of federal and state environmental cleanup laws.

For a long time, businesses have thought of litigation as a burden, requiring many hours of employee time responding to discovery requests, as well as often incurring significant legal fees and other related costs.

Responding to a lawsuit filed against it in federal court in Washington, D.C., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is defending its attempt to expand its investigatory authority to a dangerous and intrusive new level.

In a unanimous en banc decision, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania held on November 12 in In re Estate of William O. Smaling, No. 3353 EDA 2011, that filing exceptions to a Pennsylvania Orphans' Court order is not necessary to preserve weight-of-the-evidence claims on appeal.

Chandler Parsons, a forward for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, does not have to worry about buying basketball shoes.

In Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S. 555 (2009), the United States Supreme Court held that certain failure to warn claims against manufacturers of brand-name pharmaceuticals were not preempted by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

The United States Supreme Court ruled on June 20, 2011 that federal common law nuisance claims are not available as a means to impose greenhouse gas limits on fossil-fueled power plants. American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut et al.

The Delaware Chancery Court issued a strong reaffirmation of the business judgment rule in In re Citigroup Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, No. 3338-CC. In Citigroup, the court rejected a novel theory that a director's duty to oversee a corporation requires the director to not only monitor for criminal and fraudulent conduct by employees, but also to monitor business decisions.

A foreign manufacturer sued in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently prevailed in its motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction even though it did not dispute that its consumer product was used by the injured Pennsylvania plaintiffs.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has strictly limited the ability of defamation plaintiffs to recover anything other than nominal damages under the presumed damages doctrine.

The purchase and sale of debt was not a common practice at the time Congress enacted the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") and the Third Circuit has observed that that ...

On December 18, 2013, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 which modernizes the New York nonprofit corporation law.

On September 12,2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published CFPB Bulletin 2013-10. The stated purpose of this publication was "to reiterate the application of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) and Regulation E, which implements the EFTA, to payroll card accounts.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has begun her review of legislation passed by the New York State legislature to determine what bills she will sign and what she will veto by December 31, 2022.

Last year, I tried a prisoner civil rights case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. After a three-day trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of my client and awarded him $30,000 in damages.