Gambling Addicts Reach Tentative Multi-Million Dollar Settlement with Lotto-Quebec

A newspaper was not liable for reports concerning the firing of a municipal official, because even if some statements in the articles were false the reports were fair and accurate summaries overall, Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled. The superintendent of a town’s sewer department was placed on administrative leave and eventually fired from his position

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow a plaintiff to amend a complaint to add a party and have the amendment relate back to the date of the original pleading. The Court will review an 11th Circuit ruling that addressed Rule 15(c) of the Federal Rules of

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston announced that the Justice Department has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Johnson & Johnson and two subsidiaries for allegedly paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing homes to prescribe its anti-psychotic drug Risperdal . New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson allegedly paid the kickbacks to Omnicare, the nation’s

A pilot program in seven states is evaluating whether making digital recordings of case proceedings available online is useful for the public. The committee on court administration and case management of the U.S. Judicial Conference recently voted in support of the program, meaning that it may soon be approved for use in all 50 states. The

Sequenom Inc., a diagnostics testing and genetic analysis company, said it would pay $14 million to settle an investor class-action lawsuit arising from mistakes in the development of a prenatal test for Down Syndrome.