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'No-Injury' Consumer Class Actions: A Growing Practice By Plaintiffs and a Potential Response By Defendants
Plaintiffs' counsel recently have been changing their tactics in product liability class action litigation. In place of filing traditional injury class actions, they instead have been filing more and more economic 'no-injury' class actions, in which the proposed class members seek to recover not for personal injury, but for their alleged economic losses in purchasing a product that is worth 'less' than they paid for it because of some alleged defect.
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Download Ruling May Raise Burden For Record Labels
Those who download music to their computers now have two unlikely heroes: Janet Bond Arterton, a federal judge who sits in New Haven, CT; and Christopher David Brennan, a young Waterford, CT, resident who has reportedly downloaded songs by Billy Joel, Hootie and the Blowfish and other artists. Brennan is one of about 30,000 people sued by the music industry in recent years for allegedly taking music from the Internet without paying for it.
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NJ & CT News
Recent happenings that may affect your practice.
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The Marital Residence
In matrimonial litigation the marital residence often constitutes the parties' most valuable asset. Equitable distribution of this asset can involve issues that may or may not have been anticipated at the outset of the litigation. Within the process of accomplishing an equitable division of the home are considerations of separate property credits, capital gains taxes, expenses relating to the residence and timing of valuation of the home. In this month's issue, we discuss separate property credits.
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Drug & Device News
The latest happenings for your review.
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Litigation
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
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Cooperatives & Condominiums
In-depth analysis of recent rulings.
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Index
Everything contained in this issue, in an easy-to-read format.
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