Insurance Journal

JULY 12, 2024

AP) — A sitting Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his supervision and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without … MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)

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Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A former New York City Fire Department chief pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal conspiracy charge, admitting that he and others solicited tens of thousands of dollars over two years to give preferential treatment in scheduling safety inspections. Brian Cordasco, …

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Pleadings 59

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 21, 2024

A 56-year-old former Washington State meter reader who claimed she was so traumatized from a workplace dog attack that she fainted at the sight of dogs has pleaded guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud case. According to a Washington State …

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Pleadings 104

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 5, 2024

Three suspects pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in May and June after investigations by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Criminal Investigations Unit. The fraud cases included a suspect from Qatar who had been on a most wanted list since 2013, …

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Pleadings Insurance 64

Securities Docket

JULY 18, 2024

Since the PSLRA’s passage, lower courts have wrestled with applying the heightened pleading requirements for claims arising under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act. The Supreme Court also has the rare opportunity to ensure that the PSLRA’s pleading requirements remain robust in courts across the country.

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CaseFox

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This crucial element is pleadings. Legal pleadings are crucial documents for the proceedings in the court. We will delve into the world of pleadings in this blog. And explore what is a legal pleading, types of pleadings, rules for filing, and much more. What are pleadings? You can just counterclaim them.

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Source: Ex-MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Conspiracy After Taking Plea Deal He faces a maximum of five years in prison, with the expectation that he’ll be sentenced to less for assisting with ongoing investigation and cases, plus a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the amount he made off of the alleged scheme.

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Pleadings 52

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 18, 2024

I can’t think of any other case where this blog has featured a case that was decided prior to the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules. However the judgment in Rigby v Decorating Den Systems Ltd [1999] EWCA Civ 986.

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Pleadings 83

CaseFox

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This crucial element is pleadings. Legal pleadings are crucial documents for the proceedings in the court. We will delve into the world of pleadings in this blog. And explore what is a legal pleading, types of pleadings, rules for filing, much more. What are pleadings?

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Pleadings Cross-Complaint Counterclaim Court Rules 40

Civil Litigation Brief

OCTOBER 6, 2024

For some time now the courts have been grappling with the notion of the “implied sanction” in relation to rules and orders. Some rules are subject to “implied sanctions” so that a failure to comply means that a party has.

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Pleadings 97

Securities Docket

JUNE 18, 2024

While I am sure the plaintiffs are griped that the Court granted cert in this case, the company did make a valid point that it would create quite a mess in the securities litigation arena if there were to be a split between the Second and the Ninth circuits on issues as important as pleading scienter and falsity.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 22, 2024

A scrap metal dealer with a Virginia shop pled guilty this week to theft and tax charges related to his participation in a multi-state catalytic converter theft conspiracy. According to court documents, Theodore Nicholas Papouloglou, 45, used his business, DG …

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Pleadings 105

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2024

William Berg, an insurance producer and former financial advisor from Waukee, Iowa, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty in federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges. In addition to his prison sentence, …

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Law Sites

MARCH 14, 2024

When the committee asked Neusom about the pleadings during a telephone interview, he said that “he used Westlaw and Fastcase and may have used artificial intelligence to draft the filing(s) but was not able to check the excerpts and citations.”

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 22, 2024

A former West Virginia volunteer fire official is awaiting sentencing after he admitted to setting fire to his home, filing an insurance claim, and using the fire department’s credit card for personal gain. Ennis, 43, of St. Albans, …

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Pleadings Insurance 106

Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

AP) — A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to federal crimes for shootings at electrical substations and an oil pipeline in the Dakotas that caused $1.7 Cameron Monte Smith pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) million in damages. District …

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Pleadings 104

The 10b-5 Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

The district court dismissed the claims based on the plaintiffs’ failure to adequately plead falsity. “Sounds in fraud” – Section 11 and 12(a)(2) claims do not have fraud as an element, so generally they are not subject to the heightened pleading standard of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b).

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Travis Lee Johnson, 52, of Spokane Valley, pleaded not guilty recently to … A Washington man who claimed he was too injured to work while operating a metal fabrication shop faces a felony charge in an alleged $340,000 workers’ compensation scam.

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Pleadings 105

The Marshall Project

JUNE 16, 2024

Jaleel Stallings was swept up in the chaos of protests over George Floyd’s murder. The outcome changed his life.

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Pleadings 124

Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Misty Jane Dial, age 33, pleaded guilty in the District Court of Cowley-Arkansas City on July 9 to one … Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced an Arkansas City woman has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for insurance fraud.

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Insurance Pleadings 104

Insurance Journal

JULY 14, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sentenced former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine to serve three-and-a-half years in prison after Oxendine pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, plus three years supervised release after his sentence …

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Pleadings Insurance 112

IP Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2023

A recent policy change at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) provides a lesson in how to properly draft a key requirement in a Section 337 complaint. The ITC is a popular forum for companies facing unfair competition from imported goods that infringe intellectual property rights.

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Pleadings 117

Insurance Journal

JULY 23, 2024

AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars have filed a lawsuit against a former employee who is serving prison time after pleading guilty to stealing $22 million from the NFL team’s virtual credit card program. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) The lawsuit, filed Thursday in …

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Pleadings Insurance 105

Insurance Journal

JULY 24, 2024

A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of …

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Pleadings 105

Insurance Journal

JULY 17, 2024

Sellinger said that Warren Guerrier pleaded guilty before … A New Jersey man has admitted to orchestrating a multistate car theft and fraud ring that involved tracking drivers, programming keys, stealing their cars, and reselling their vehicles. Attorney Philip R.

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Pleadings 105

Insurance Journal

JULY 21, 2024

Lakisha Hines was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in March to one count of federal employee compensation … Postal Service employee in Delaware who defrauded taxpayers of almost $100,000 in workers’ compensation benefits has been sentenced to probation.

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Pleadings 102

E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The change “signal[ed] to the court that it has the authority to confine discovery to the claims and defenses asserted in the pleadings , and signal[ed] to the parties that they have no entitlement to discovery to develop new claims or defenses that are not already identified in the pleadings.” H & M Henner & Mauritz, L.P.,

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Insurance Journal

JULY 11, 2024

An Iowa woman was sentenced on July 2, 2024 after pleading guilty to Tampering With Records (Aggravated Misdemeanor) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Sarah Rahm, age 39, of Bondurant made willful misrepresentations regarding her pet’s …

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Insurance Pleadings 105

The Marshall Project

JULY 31, 2024

Stallings was acquitted after an encounter with police during George Floyd protests in 2020, and one officer pleaded guilty to assaulting him.

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Pleadings 90

E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Reporter’s Note to Proposed Rule 1-322(a)(filing of pleadings and motions), states: “Proposed new subsection (a)(6) authorizes digital media, as defined by Rule 1- 202, to be transmitted using a digital storage platform approved by the State Court Administrator.” It could then be considered on appeal.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

105.11; and (d) a provision permitting the Clerk to return to counsel or destroy any sealed material at the end of the litigation. In Appendix D to the Local Rules, the Court has published a “Stipulated Order Regarding Confidentiality of Discovery Material” that conforms to the Local Rule. Local Rule 105.11

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A man who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2015 after pleading guilty to a $14.2 Miguel Merced-Torres pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of wire fraud in the US District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for running a scheme nearly identical to the one that led to his earlier conviction.

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Pleadings 52

Securities Docket

AUGUST 19, 2024

The question whether a complaint pleads falsity or a strong inference of scienter or loss causation or materiality is a holistic factual inquiry; but as these rules build up, pleading or litigating a securities case becomes about whether plaintiffs have complied with an increasingly arcane set of rules. You see the problem.

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Civil Litigation Brief

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In Sammut & Ors v Next Steps Mental Healthcare Ltd & Anor [2024] EWHC 2265 (KB) HHJ Bird (sitting as Judge of the High Court) made some important observations on the way in which the Particulars of Claim were drafted.

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Healthcare Pleadings 52

Legal Dive

AUGUST 21, 2024

Shan Hanes pleaded guilty in May to one count of embezzlement as a bank officer after taking $47.1 million from Heartland Tri-State Bank as part of a crypto scheme.

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Pleadings 52

Legal Dive

JULY 8, 2024

The aerospace and defense giant would plead guilty to one criminal count, pay a $244 million fine and operate under an oversight monitor for three years.

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Pleadings 59

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But the district court granted Zillow’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, finding the claims were directed to abstract ideas and lacked any inventive concept. 7,187,389 were plausibly patent eligible and should not have been found ineligible at the pleadings stage. The opinion was authored by Judge Hughes.

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