Posted on 02 May 2014. Tags: big tobacco, chris placitella, civil justice magazine, product safety
An Illinois appeals court reinstated a $10 billion verdict on April 29 in a class action accusing Philip Morris USA Inc. of deceptively marketing light cigarettes. The appellate court said a lower court wrongly speculated that Illinois Supreme Court justices would have favored the defendant despite new evidence. The ruling revived an 11-year-old case which […]
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Posted in Consumer Protection, Legal News, Product Safety
Posted on 29 April 2014. Tags: chris placitella, civil justice magazine
Apparently time does not heal all wounds. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York ruled that IBM Corp and Ford Motor Company are not off of the hook as far as lawsuits in apartheid abuse cases dating back 10 years. There are three suits which aim to hold the two companies responsible for selling […]
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Posted in Civil Justice Update, Legal News
Posted on 17 April 2014. Tags: car recall, car safety, chris placitella, civil justice magazine, consumer safety, defective products, product recall, product safety, recall, vehicle recall
Given the fact that I have dedicated my professional life to protecting the rights of the wrongfully injured, I am often confronted with arguments created by the wrongdoers lobby about the abuses in the civil justice system. The video below speaks for itself. Without the uncovering of the truth in this case who knows how […]
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Posted in Civil Justice Update, Live Broadcasts
Posted on 23 April 2013. Tags: chris placitella, civil justice magazine, cjm, estate planning, michael jackson, neverland ranch estate, probate wars of the rich and famous, russell fishkind
In this edition of Civil Justice Magazine, Chris Placitella again talks with the premier estate planning and litigation lawyer Rusell J. Fishkind about his new book, Probate Wars of the Rich and Famous. This week, Fishkind explains the mistakes Michael Jackson made when planning out his estate- the largest estate in American history. Although Jackson […]
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Posted in Civil Justice Update, Live Broadcasts
Posted on 04 April 2013. Tags: anna nicole smith, chris placitella, civil justice magazine, estate planning and probate law, j howard marshall, michael jackson, probate wars of the rich and famous, russel j fishkind
In this edition of Civil Justice Magazine, Chris Placitella talks with the premier estate planning and litigation lawyer Rusell J. Fishkind about his new book, Probate Wars of the Rich and Famous. Fishkind is a professor at New York University and frequently lectures to lawyers. Placitella and Fishkind explain that probate litigation is when beneficiaries […]
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Posted in Cases that Change America
Posted on 04 April 2013. Tags: chris placitella, civil justice magazine, fourth amendment, michael ferarra, nj state police, personal injury law, trial law, wrongful imprisonment
Often times trial lawyers take on cases not because of the potential financial renumeration, but rather to right a wrong. In this case, nationally-known trial lawyer Michael Ferrara took on the New Jersey State police because he believed the officer involved went too far in effect acting as a private debt collector for a local […]
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