The Fourth Circuit ruled that Rent-a-Center (RAC) won't have to answer in court for leasing a trundle bed full of bedbugs to Christine and Antwan Seney.
The vermin had bitten the Seneys' son, for whom they'd gotten the trundle, and when RAC retrieved the rental its movers dragged the bed through the Seneys' home, spreading
Ten, 20, or even 100 judges who look at the same evidence will all reach the same conclusion about the True Facts of a case, right?
No?
Why not?
The reasons may include, per Linda Greenhouse's latest column, that Their Honors actually "don't know" all the info they need in order to
Roger Chadderdon's firm, Cataphora, won a breach-of-contract case against a bunch of lawyers who had hired the firm to provide "litigation support".
The lawyers served on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in a massive case that the Judicial Panel on Multi-district Litigation sited in New Orleans. See In re Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liabiity Litig.
The Seventh Circuit, per Judge Richard Posner, has put the kibosh on an effort to kill a pair of class actions over moldy Kenmore washing machines. Butler v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. 11-8029 (7th Cir. Aug. 22, 2013). In doing so, the court gave the back of its hand to those who claim that Comcast Corp.
People who commit to buy a stock on Day 1 can't complain about misrepresentations that the stock issuer made on Day 2 or later. E.g., APA Excelsior III L.P. v. Premiere Techs., Inc., 476 F.3d 1261, 1267 (11th Cir. 2007). The later lies could not have induced you to buy the shares, the theory
The D.C. Circuit today vacated class certification in an antitrust case on behalf of firms that paid fuel surcharges on top of basic charges to freight railroads. In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litig., No. 12-7085 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 9, 2013). The court cited what it called the "propensity toward false positives"
Anyway the retroactive modification of a plan can't be used to diminish damages to which participants have been held entitled, even if the modification is lawful. In effect the defendant is arguing that okay, we screwed our participants unlawfully, but we could have screwed them lawfully, and that’s what we’ve now done by amending the
In the proverb, the dog in the manger can't benefit from eating the feed he's found in the barn, but he snarls and bites at the other beasts who could digest it and will starve without it. If I can't get a meal, neither can any of you.
The story came to mind last week.
Snappy reclines. The Empire State Building looms in the mid-distance. Bitey consults his notes. He clears his throat.
Bitey: The U.S. Supreme Court's summer break started last week, Snaps, and the time has come for us to look at the . . . uh . . . results of the 2012-13 Term for those commercial cases
If you have a claim under the Securities Act of 1933, you need to act promptly — within one year after you knew or should have known you had a claim and within three years "after the security was bona fide offered to the public" or "more than three years after the sale of the
