The people of Bikini Atoll—the Pacific island that became a nuclear proving ground in the 1940s—have filed a Court of Chancery suit against a trust fund administrator, alleging Arden Trust Company is responsible for depleting two trust funds set up by the U.S. government. The complaint alleges that between 2018,…

New York’s highest court kept the state’s Early Mail Voter Act intact for the Nov. 5 presidential election and beyond, defeating an appeal by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, the state Republican committee and others who had questioned its constitutionality. Democratic lawmakers advanced the no-excuse, vote-by-mail law in 2023, and it…

Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, are asking a federal judge to set aside their client’s guilty verdicts, claiming prosecutors violated the lawmaker’s rights to protected speech and debate. The motion, filed late Monday, comes as Menendez is expected to resign his position at the end of business…

A data breach that reportedly exposed the personally identifiable information of 2.9 billion people, including Social Security numbers, has called mainstream attention to the conditions that enable massive data leaks and the complexities of litigating on behalf of their victims. The breach became public knowledge this month after a California resident filed a class action…

Disney Does an About-Face on Florida Lawsuit Over Patron’s Death | Daily Business Review Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/08/20/disney-does-an-about-face-on-florida-lawsuit-over-patrons-death/ Raglan Road Irish Pub at Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Adobe Stock NEWS “It didn’t just occur to them in some epiphany that this was a nice family until after the…

An Am Law 200 firm attorney filed a second lawsuit Tuesday in the Palm Beach Circuit Court against the developer behind the Residences-Mandarin Oriental-Boca Raton. James T. Ferrara, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson, represents the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against the defendant, Via Mizner Owner III, LLC, for developer default.  And…