Law360 (December 4, 2020, 11:10 PM EST) — The owner of the New York Yankees‘ affiliate on Staten Island has hit the Major League Baseball team and the league with a $20 million lawsuit after the minor league outfit folded as part of a systemwide contraction, a dispute that may signal cases to come in other communities in danger of losing their beloved ballclubs. Nostalgic...
For the family of Mary Catlin, who died after catching the coronavirus at a nursing home, the pandemic was an infuriating and avoidable tragedy. But for the owners of the Michigan nursing home, as hard-pressed as they were to avoid catastrophe, the infection also presented an opportunity. On April 18, three days after Catlin died, Michigan created...
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia instructed Postal Service employees at processing facilities nationwide to sweep each morning and afternoon for any ballots, and to expedite their processing, until the mail ballot receipt deadline has passed in each state. Given “the incredibly razor-thin margins in some of...
While scammers are out there marking up hand sanitizer and surgical masks, there is a much larger risk of fraud looming in the future. Congress is contemplating a $2 trillion economy saving, stimulus package and nobody outside of congress knows exactly where the money will go. That amount of money is more than the annual...
On December 2, 2019, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed a criminal complaint against Virgil Griffith for conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by providing services to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The indictment of Griffith, one of the developers of the Ethereum blockchain, is the first...
The National Football League Players Association filed a grievance over the national anthem policy the league introduced in May, the union announced July 10. “The union’s claim is that this new policy, imposed by the NFL’s governing body without consultation with the NFLPA, is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement and infringes on player rights,”...
Law360, Los Angeles (December 15, 2017, 10:00 PM EST) — Trial attorneys at the top of their high-stress profession are making lists and checking them twice, hoping that this holiday season, they’ll be waking up to find new slates of jury trials, more involved trial courts and more. *** David Berg of Berg & Androphy said it...
HOUSTON, Sept. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Joel M. Androphy and Sarah M. Frazier of the Berg & Androphy law firm, along with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 50 state Medicaid programs plus the District of Columbia and the City of Chicago, have reached settlements in False Claims Act (FCA) litigation against Novo Nordisk...
Anthony Joshua is a former Olympic gold medalist for Britain, undefeated in his pro career and the current IBF champion. On Saturday, he’s scheduled to fight Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko before 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London, and a victory would unify three of boxing’s fractured titles and potentially make him the defining heavyweight of...
By David Lat With its final resolution almost 30 years in the past, it’s hard for observers today to understand the epic nature of Pennzoil v. Texaco. The case is famous for generating what was at the time the largest jury verdict in history, for $10.53 billion (or $11.1 billion with interest, after it was...
