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Third Circuit Establishes Joint Employment Test
In late June, the Third Circuit considered the broad definition of "employer" under the FLSA to determine when two employers jointly employ an employee, an issue that has been arising with increasing frequency.
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Mall's 'Minimal Precautions' Spare It Liability for Murder
Since the owners of an Ulster County, NY, mall took at least "minimal precautions to protect tenants from foreseeable harm," they cannot be held liable for the brutal after-hours murder of the night manager of a restaurant, an appellate court has held.
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Landlord & Tenant
In-depth analysis of several key rulings.
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First Department Overrules Decision on Claims Against Condo/Co-op Directors
The First Department's recent decision in <i>Fletcher v. The Dakota, Inc., et al.</i> overrules a prior decision that set forth an overly onerous pleading standard for discrimination claims against coop directors and condominium board members.
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IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property cases from around the country.
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Potential New Barrier to Verdicts of Willful Infringement?
The question of whether a defendant had willfully infringed a patent has typically been decided by a jury. However, under <i>Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. W.L. Gore & Assoc.,</i> a judge may now have the exclusive role of determining whether a jury is entitled to decide this question.
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First Circuit Raises Troubling Questions
The recently published First Circuit opinion in <i>Rosciti v. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania</i>, presents an increasingly common interplay between two somewhat different and often conflicting areas of law — insurance coverage and bankruptcy.
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Reducing Med-Mal Litigation
A look at legal reforms that are and are not reducing med-mal lawsuits.
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