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While self-driving vehicles may eventually spell the end of auto accident cases as the staple of a personal injury attorney’s practice, experts see ample room for litigation between now and the time the technology becomes widespread and perfected. One lawyer ...

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BOSTON, MA — Whatever one’s position is on illegal immigration, most would agree that rarely are there good solutions when children are caught up in the federal government’s efforts to remove those who entered the country without proper documentation. For ...

A debt collection notice violated federal law by stating that the debtors could only dispute the validity of their debts in writing, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in reversing a dismissal, Hooks v. Forman, ...

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The Internal Revenue Service obtained 12 percent more tax convictions in 2012 than it did in 2011, according to an annual report on the agency’s criminal investigation operations. “The key to our successes is perseverance and dedication to working complex ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a patentee bears the burden of proving infringement when its licensee brings a declaratory judgment action to establish non-infringement. The court will review a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has clarified that proof of malicious intent is not required to prevent the bankruptcy discharge of a debt that arose from a trustee’s self-dealing. “Where actual knowledge of wrongdoing is lacking, we consider conduct as equivalent ...

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Defense attorneys were having a good laugh back in 2009. The snickering was over the story of a well-known medical malpractice lawyer who lost his case after turning down an $8 million settlement offer. But no one’s laughing now. Manhattan ...

A car lender willfully violated the automatic stay in a Chapter 13 case by failing to return a repossessed vehicle to the debtor promptly after receiving notice of his bankruptcy petition, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...

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Senator Al Franken, D-Minn., has reintroduced a bill that would prohibit the enforcement of mandatory arbitration clauses against employees and consumers. The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013, introduced this month as S. 878, provides that “no predispute arbitration agreement shall ...

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When a non-local imagines New York state, it’s hard not to think of New York City with its millions of people crammed among towering concrete and steel boxes. But anyone who has actually driven through the state, or lives here, ...

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A New Jersey court on Thursday overturned a $7.7 million award to a commuter who slipped on wet floor mats at a train station outside New York City, rejecting the notion that the regional transit authority had a heightened duty ...

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Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a court decision striking down the Food and Drug Administration’s new graphic warnings on cigarette packages on First Amendment grounds. “The Solicitor General has determined … not to seek [U.S.] Supreme Court ...

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