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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption for businesses and individuals around the globe. Our content focuses on its impact on the legal industry, including law firms, the court system, in-house counsel, tech companies and law schools.
By Ross Todd | April 12, 2024
Brendon DeMay and Priyanka Timblo of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg represented a company that claimed Walmart backed out of a deal struck during the pandemic to get into the business-to-business market for disposable nitrile gloves when demand for PPE cooled.
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By Avalon Zoppo | March 27, 2024
A Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure should be tweaked to allow trial judges to conduct pretrial criminal hearings over video conference if the defendant consents, U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig wrote.
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By Brian Lee | March 15, 2024
The report notes that the $3.4 billion court system had its third consecutive year of a rise in cases filed statewide.
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By Daniel Y. Gielchinsky | March 15, 2024
Just two months after the suspension of in-person jury trials, the court authorized the Remote Civil Jury Trial Pilot Program, through which trials are conducted via a videoconferencing platform "to establish the framework and identify the logistics of trying a case remotely."
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By Colleen Murphy | March 11, 2024
"Despite the lessons of the last four years, New Jersey remains underprepared for the next emergency," the report said. "We owe it to those who lost their lives, and the families who suffered, as well as the heroic state workers and healthcare professionals."
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By Allison Dunn | March 7, 2024
"This case is an outlier, one arising from the rare occurrence of a worldwide pandemic. It appears that the majority reached its conclusions on jurisdiction because this is one of those unicorns. Its holding should not be universally applied. Otherwise, egregious situations caused by the state would go unchecked, despite the existence of specific statutes by which the state waives sovereign immunity," Justice Jennifer Brunner wrote in a dissenting opinion.
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By Ross Todd | March 6, 2024
Among last year's settlements, the median time from when a case was filed to a settlement hearing date was 3.7 years, the second-highest for any year in Cornerstone Research records going back to 1996.
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By Cheryl Miller | March 5, 2024
During oral arguments, the justices asked repeatedly why COVID-19 business losses should be covered by commercial property insurance policies.
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By Riley Brennan | March 1, 2024
"Even if Plaintiffs could show injury in fact, they cannot carry their burden to establish traceability. Article III requires a showing of 'a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of—the injury has to be fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant, and not the result of the independent action of some third party not before the court,'" Judge Ralph R. Erickson said.
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By Avalon Zoppo | February 29, 2024
"The transaction had tribe and tribal lands written all over it," the appeals court said.
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