Johnson & Johnson's vice president of litigation said on Monday he was "utterly shocked and appalled" upon learning an attorney who served as the company's outside counsel was working with its adversary Beasley Allen Law Firm and one of its attorneys in litigation over the alleged link between the company's talcum powder products and ovarian cancer.
The Connecticut Office of Higher Education has asked a state judge to vacate a ruling that paused the agency's refund process for students affected by the abrupt shutdown of Stone Academy, arguing the judge shouldn't have exercised jurisdiction over the matter and that the ruling interferes with the agency's statutory authority to implement the program.
A New Jersey state judge on Thursday tossed several allegations against the state's Office of the Public Defender in a suit brought by a former employee alleging that she was forced to resign because of discrimination and a hostile work environment, ruling that she failed to provide the state agency with proper notice of her complaint.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the Ninth Circuit's revival of a building company's Nevada federal lawsuit accusing an architect and his wife of hiding assets to dodge a judgment, leaving intact a decision to lift a stay on the complaint because, the appellate court had reasoned, there's doubt that parallel litigation in New Jersey state court could resolve the Nevada matter.
Live Nation has urged a New Jersey federal judge to toss discrimination claims brought by a New Jersey man accusing the company of refusing to do business with his company Drag Diva because he is gay, arguing that it was never party to a contract with the man individually and that his suit was filed well past the two-year statute of limitations.