A pharmaceutical manufacturer based in China is facing a monetary sanction in a New Jersey court for failing to make its CEO available for a deposition in multidisciplinary litigation over alleged cancer-causing contamination in the blood pressure drug Valsartan. Thomas Vanaskie, a former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called on the Federal Trade Commission to “pump the breaks” on Chevron’s proposed $53 billion purchase of fellow oil company Hess. “I’m sounding the alarm against yet another proposed Big Oil merger,” Schumer, D-New York, tweeted Sunday. “It would give Big Oil more fuel…

On Tuesday the Georgia Court of Appeals is set to hear a dispute over who has the rightful ownership over “approximately 1,000 acres of coastal marshland.” Rights to Georgia’s wetlands have been a hot topic of late, with the most high-profile dispute erupting over a company trying to open a…

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against property tax collections that give the government more than it is owed, homeowners are filing a crop of lawsuits to enforce their rights under the ruling. The justices ruled 9-0 in Tyler v. Hennepin County last May that a public entity that keeps the…

Why Is Gov. Brian Kemp Appointing Fewer Judges? Timing Is Key Amid Elections | Daily Report Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2024/05/13/power-shift-judicial-appointments-lag-as-retiring-judges-commit-to-full-terms/ (Credit: ink drop/Adobe Stock) NEWS Compared to 13 judicial appointments made during first quarter of 2023, Gov. Brian Kemp has appointed eight judges to judicial vacancies between Jan. 1 and…

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in the Northern District of Texas-Fort Worth Division ruled on a plaintiff motion, as ordered by the appeals court “in 10 days,” but then sent a lengthy response to the appeals court about managing his docket. Pittman granted a preliminary injunction staying a Consumer Financial…