Civil Justice Magazine

  A T.G.I. Fridays franchisee has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle New Jersey state regulators' claims that it sold cheap liquor masquerading as high-end brands. Briad Restaurant Group, of Livingston, will not contest allegations that it violated Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control rules, Acting Attorney General John Hoffman said Wednesday in announcing the settlement. […]

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    Class action lawsuit differs from mass tort Palm Beach Post You may have heard the terms “class action” and “mass tort” used when discussing lawsuits brought on behalf of groups of people. When seeking legal … See all stories on this topic » Federal class action suit seeks to end Virginia's gay-marriage ban […]

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  Bloomberg News (8/2, Fisk) reports that FedEx Corp. and attorneys suing the company “over claims it billed governments and businesses at higher residential rates won preliminary approval of a $21.5 million settlement.” Under the settlement, which was reached after mediation, FedEx “will ‘implement prospective relief regarding residential delivery fee practices’ as well as provide […]

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  The AP (8/1, Mandak) reports from Pittsburgh that a three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday revived a lawsuit against a military contractor in the death of a Pennsylvania soldier “who was electrocuted in his barracks shower at an Army base in Iraq.” Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth “died in 2008 […]

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  The South Florida Sun Sentinel (8/1, Roustan, 155K) reports a Broward jury awarded the family of Laura Grossman $37.5 million dollars “after the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company was found partially responsible for the Coral Springs woman’s death” of lung cancer in 1995. The decision is likely to be appealed, but in the trial, family […]

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  A federal appeals court has affirmed a $105 million judgment for New York City against Exxon Mobil Corp. over the petroleum giant's contamination of groundwater with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, used until the mid-2000s to reduce emissions. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]

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