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Law Firm & Ex-Associate Litigate Badmouth Blog Battle in State & Federal Court

Law.com: “A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes his former employee . . . But within less than a day Heyburn had removed the action to federal court in Trenton, where the request for a temporary restraining order apparently still remains unresolved. A claim in the firm’s filing that Heyburn’s site violates the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and the Lanham Act provided the requisite federal question jurisdiction for removal.”

Lawsuit Literally Out of Left Field – NY Appeals Court Tosses Another Foul Ball Injury Case

New York Injury Cases Blog: “It’s got to stop at some point. Some “fans” are trying to ruin our national pastime – the game of baseball. Spectator lawsuits have been going on for quite some time, as we discussed just last week, here. Now, there’s a brand new case and I’ll tell you all about it. Look, I’m a trial lawyer and the only cases I handle are those in which someone caused serious traumatic injuries.”

PepsiCo Dodges $1.26 Billion Default Judgment Bullet

Yahoo News: A court entered a default judgment against PepsiCo for $1.26 billion after the company failed to file an answer to a lawsuit alleging that PepsiCo stole an idea for bottled water. Lawyers for PepsiCo convinced the judge to set the judgment aside and allow the company to defend the lawsuit on its merits.

Sexual Harassment: Are We Now Too Sensitive?

Westchester Magazine: “When the human resources department at Richard Michaels’s job told him that he’d been accused of sexual harassment, he was confused. The representative told Michaels, a manager at his company, that one of the employees he oversaw alleged that he had kissed her. Experts agree that forcible touching of employees by managers is a serious matter, morally dubious, and legally actionable on almost every jurisdictional level, including the federal. Michaels even knew that the accusation was true. He had, in fact, kissed the woman. Yet he felt sure that he had done nothing wrong.”

Debt Collection Firm to Pay $2.55 Million to Settle Class Action

A Delaware bankrupcty court approved a settlement in of a class action lawsuit that requires American Corrective Counseling Services, a California debt-collector, to pay $2.55 million. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of thousands of Pennsylvania residents who claimed the debt collector sent them letters that implied that they had to pay money to avoid criminal charges for bouncing checks.