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Court Narrows Shareholder Access to New Jersey Corporate Records 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Court Narrows Shareholder Access to New Jersey Corporate Records

In a recent per curiam decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Feuer v. Merck & Co., the Court sheds light on the scope of a shareholder’s right to…

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Insulin Giants Beat RICO Claims Brought By Patients 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Insulin Giants Beat RICO Claims Brought By Patients

As reported in Law360, a proposed class of diabetes patients who say three major insulin manufacturers caused them to overpay for the medication can’t pursue Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act…

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Hector D. Ruiz Authors Article in ‘Law360’ 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Hector D. Ruiz Authors Article in ‘Law360’

The following article originally appeared on Law360. Clarifying State Consumer Fraud Act At NJ High Court   Partner Hector D. Ruiz authored an article on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s…

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Client Alert – Commercial Litigation: SCOTUS Favors Courts on Issues of Arbitrability But Rejects Wholly Groundless Exception 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Client Alert – Commercial Litigation: SCOTUS Favors Courts on Issues of Arbitrability But Rejects Wholly Groundless Exception

By: Hector D. Ruiz In a pair of recent decisions issued a week apart, the United States Supreme Court refined jurisprudence surrounding the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA or Act), 9…

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Client Alert – Commercial Litigation: Do Not Bury Your Arbitration Clause If You Want It Enforced 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Client Alert – Commercial Litigation: Do Not Bury Your Arbitration Clause If You Want It Enforced

By: Hector D. Ruiz On January 10, 2019, the New Jersey Supreme Court made clear that consumers will not be compelled to arbitrate claims of consumer fraud and other wrongs…

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Third Circuit Sets Out Multi-Factor Test for Location of RICO Injury 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Third Circuit Sets Out Multi-Factor Test for Location of RICO Injury

In a precedential opinion filed on September 26, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit examined when a plaintiff’s allegations of a RICO injury are extraterritorial – and…

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Client Alert – Potential Changes Afoot for New Jersey Insurers 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Client Alert – Potential Changes Afoot for New Jersey Insurers

By: Richard J. Badolato Affirming the State’s persistent effort to become one of the most pro-policyholder jurisdictions, New Jersey’s State Senate on June 7, 2018 passed a bill dubbed the…

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Commercial Litigation: Sanctions for Non-Compliance with Court Rules May Not Include Depriving a Litigant of the Right to a Jury Trial 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Commercial Litigation: Sanctions for Non-Compliance with Court Rules May Not Include Depriving a Litigant of the Right to a Jury Trial

By: Marc D. Haefner In a recent opinion, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that trial courts may not “deprive litigants of their right to a jury trial as a…

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New Jersey Supreme Court to Consider Twin TCCWNA Class Certification Rulings 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

New Jersey Supreme Court to Consider Twin TCCWNA Class Certification Rulings

By: Peter J. Pizzi The New Jersey Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty, and Notice Act (TCCWNA), N.J.S.A.  56:12-14, et seq. went into effect in 1981. After over thirty years on the books,…

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Trade Secrets: The 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act creates federal court jurisdiction for theft of trade secrets 150 150 Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP

Trade Secrets: The 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act creates federal court jurisdiction for theft of trade secrets

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, signed into law on May 11, 2016, creates federal court jurisdiction and additional remedies for the misappropriation of trade secrets, an area of…

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