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The top story this morning is former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor hearing arguments yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that centered on an opinion she joined while sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986. As reporter Saranac Hale Spencer writes, O’Connor, sitting by designation, and a three-judge panel heard arguments in a class action suit brought against title insurers in New Jersey that echoed the Supreme Court’s 1986 decision in Square D v. Niagara Frontier Tariff Bureau.
Also above the fold on Page 1, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Jacqueline F. Allen heard arguments over the norms of writing a letter to an expert’s employer. A defense attorney in the case sent a letter to the employer of a medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert, but said she should not be sanctioned because lawyers frequently discuss local physicians who testify as experts, especially if they “go out there and espouse a new standard of care.”
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Zack Needles writes that Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman has picked up a two-member construction boutique, Byler & Blaker, for its Philadelphia office.
In more Regional News on Page 3, Saranac Hale Spencer writes that challengers to federal laws requiring pornography producers to keep lists of their actors won their big to seek further discovery following a ruling the Third Circuit.
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.
In an Asset Management column on Page 5, Mark L. Silow writes about taxpayers receiving tax-exempt interest on a settlement in the case of DeNaples v. Commissioner.
In a Health Care Law column on Page 7, Vasilios J. Kalogredis and Karilynn Bayus analyze CMS’s proposed rule on reporting and returning overpayments.
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