SCRANTON, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – The nation’s largest student loan servicer says federal authorities have failed to make their case against it, even after more than six years of litigation.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A former railroad worker who responded to lawyer advertising to sue BNSF has lost his lawsuit because his lawyers did not secure an expert that a Delaware judge found to be reliable.
SCRANTON – The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fighting an order that would allow one of its former staffers to testify against it in Pennsylvania federal court.
MEDIA – A contractor hired by Villanova University is facing a $1.3 million lawsuit from an insurance company over water damage at a construction site.
PHILADELPHIA – A man who claims to have been shot by his fireworks setup in the left eye from more than 40 feet away is suing the company that sold the product.
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania is facing a class action lawsuit over an alleged refusal to refund tuition during its coronavirus shutdown.
HARRISBURG – A nonprofit is suing several state and county officials in Pennsylvania in order to ensure certain voters are removed from registration lists.
Recent advertising figures indicate the makers of the heartburn drug Zantac and its generic equivalents will soon be facing an onslaught of lawsuits, as personal injury lawyers have begun the process of rounding up clients.
PHILADELPHIA – “If you are reading this website, you are most likely a telemarketer that has illegally called my phone. You are going to be sued. I played along with your telemarketer script in order to find out who you really are.”
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – As a federal agency considers whether lawyers are illegally frightening potential clients who see their television commercials, research shows drugs like Invokana and Truvada are among the most popular subjects of lawyer spending.
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) – A jury will determine who, if anyone, is liable for the nation’s addiction crisis, but the judge overseeing a historic trial will decide how much they would pay.
Now, Rannazzisi is helping private lawyers pin the blame squarely on manufacturers and distributors of opioids, as well as pharmacies. A post-DEA alliance with trial lawyers has been worth six figures for Rannazzisi, who has been hailed as a whistleblower by those cheering attempts to prosecute the opioid industry for the nation’s addiction crisis.
HARRISBURG – A fraternity has not convinced a Pennsylvania appellate court to order a new trial over the 2013 death of a freshman during a ritual known as “The Crossing” that took place in the Poconos, though the court has decided a ban on operating in the state went too far.
LANCASTER – The next chapter in long-running Lancaster litigation against Armstrong World Industries will ask whether it was fair for a judge to boot the plaintiffs’ lawyer off of their cases.
PHILADELPHIA – It’s now up to a pair of Philadelphia federal judges to decide whether the Trump Administration was right when it said private lawyers wasted more than 1,500 hours of its time with frivolous lawsuits.