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March 15, 2019
Hedge Fund Tries To Trim Verdict In NJ Stock Scheme Case
Counsel for a defunct hedge fund called on a New Jersey state court Friday to cut a roughly $5.4 million compensatory verdict won by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and its subsidiary by the amount of blame attributed to settling defendants in an alleged scheme to lower the Canadian insurance company’s share price.
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March 15, 2019
4 La. Nuisance Class Actions Must Remain In Fed. Court
Nuisance allegations brought by a resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, over a nearby smelly landfill are not exempt from the Class Action Fairness Act and have to stay in federal court, a federal judge has ruled, deciding the law applied to it and three other similar suits.
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March 15, 2019
Jimmy John's Cites DOJ's No-Poach Ammo In Dismissal Bid
Employers are beginning to cite the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent admonitions against antitrust cases over franchise-based no-poach agreements that rely on an easier-to-prove legal standard, with Jimmy John’s quoting the DOJ liberally in a motion to dismiss a proposed class action in Illinois federal court.
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March 15, 2019
Bed Maker Can't Dodge $1M Payout For Contract Violation
An Illinois federal judge made no mistakes when he found VitalGo Inc. breached an exclusivity agreement over its Total Lift Bed and ordered the company to pay more than $1 million as a result, the Seventh Circuit held Thursday.
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March 15, 2019
Tribal Corp. Escapes Medical Marijuana Collective Suit
A California federal court judge has granted the development arm of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel's bid to nix a medical marijuana collective’s suit over a cannabis-growing contract, ruling that the court is the wrong venue for the parties’ dispute over a land use agreement.
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