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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines January 26, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, January 26, 2010.

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In Haiti, a law firm reopens to face an uncertain future

"Jean-Frédérick Salés reopened his law office outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday ? nearly two weeks after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the city and killed an estimated 100,000 or more people. Haiti's rebuilding should spur demand for legal services, he said."

 

Dismissal in early test of Twitter libel liability

"Twitter advocates won an early victory last week when a Cook Country, Ill., circuit judge dismissed a defamation suit filed by a Chicago-area real estate management company against a former tenant who tweeted about mold in her apartment. News of the suit went viral on blogs and Twitter as social media users considered the potential ramifications."

 

Legal attack on Toyota widens following second auto recall

"A lawyer with a pending lawsuit against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. filed a new suit in light of the carmaker's recent recall of 2.3 million vehicles due to sticking accelerator pedals. 'What we have is a fleet of automobiles that accelerate when people don't intend them to,' said Kirtland & Packard's Michael Kelly, who filed a class action on Jan. 22 against Toyota on behalf of its customers".

 

7th Circuit says, with or without class status, federal court will hang onto case

"The 7th Circuit has cleared up a jurisdictional question related to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, ending what Judge Richard Posner called the potential for "ping-pong" between the federal and state courts. The court ruled that even if a case transferred to federal court under the act fails to win class certification, it should still continue in the federal system."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).