Welcome to your Monday morning round-up of stories in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer. All of the links below will take you directly to today’s stories, or you can head straight over to The Legal’s homepage. (Some stories may require registration or a paid subscription.)
The top story this morning is a class action against HSBC that has settled for $23.5 million. As reporter Gina Passarella writes, the plaintiffs brought the suit against the credit card issuer over the company’s payment protection plan for its users.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Zack Needles writes that a Bucks County jury has awarded $3.6 million to a developer that claimed a bank breached its contract when it reneged on a $12.3 million loan for a retail and office complex. The 11-member jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the plaintiff on Feb. 10, following a two-week trial and about two hours of deliberation.
In more Regional News on Page 3, reporter Jeff Mordock writes that e-discovery litigator Kevin F. Brady has left the Wilmington, Del., office of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz to join Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott. Brady will focus on corporate litigation, e-disovery issues, environmental insurance coverage litigation and director and officer insurance coverage litigation.
Also on Page 3, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that the First Judicial District’s electronic filing system is slated to become available to the public online today.
As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sister publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.
On Page 5, the Editorial Board writes that, having been acquitted of murder, William J. Barnes should be released from prison. Barnes shot a Philadelphia police officer in 1966 and when the officer died in 2007, the district attorney charged Barnes with murder.
In a Public Interest column on Page 7, Mark S. Schwartz, Judy F. Berkman and Margaret Henn write that pre-condemnation municipal liens are causing problems for homebuyers. Page 7 also features the public interest calendar of events.
If you have questions or comments about any of today's stories, or our coverage as a whole, we invite you to e-mail any of the reporters directly. We hope you'll enjoy today's Legal.
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