http://www.scourlawyer.com Legal News Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:03:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mealey's is changing the name of this RSS feed on February 8, 2012 to 'Mealey's Daily News Service'. The feed URL to subscribe to will also be changing to 'http://lexisnexis.com/mealeys/rss/mealeysdailynews.xml'. Please use this URL to re-subscribe to the feed, or you can visit 'http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/RSSFeeds.aspx' after 8:30am EST, on February 8, ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/please-note-this-rss-feed-is-changing-at-830am-est-on-february-8-2012/ WILMINGTON, Del. - The Official Committee of Syms Corp. Equity Security Holders on Feb. 3 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for an order terminating the period of time within which Syms has the exclusive right to file a Chapter 11 plan and solicit acceptance ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/syms-equity-committee-seeks-to-propose-competing-chapter-11-plan/ WILMINGTON, Del. - The Los Angeles Dodgers, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, on Feb. 3 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for an order disallowing a personal injury claim against the club brought by a man who suffered injuries from an attack after attending ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/los-angeles-dodgers-injury-claim-should-be-disallowed-in-chapter-11-case/ CHICAGO - A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 2 affirmed the dischargeability of a particular debt but reversed that part of a lower court ruling that awarded fees to the debtor related to the costs of defending a creditor's adversary action (Anthony Stelmokas v. ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/7th-circuit-debt-discharged-properly-fee-award-not-valid-based-on-evidence/ DENVER - A Colorado Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 2 upheld summary judgment for a pair of subcontractors named as third-party defendants in a construction defects action, agreeing that the claims were time-barred (Shaw Construction LLC v. United Builder Services Inc., et al., No. 11CA2351, Colo. App.; 2012 Colo. ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/colorado-appeals-panel-general-contractors-third-party-claims-filed-too-late/ POCATELLO, Idaho - A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho by a group of six Idaho farmers who allege reduced sugar beet, wheat and potato yields because of sulfonylureas herbicide drift from Bureau of Land Management land survived a defense motion to dismiss; the ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/united-states-denied-motion-to-dismiss-crop-loss-suit-for-herbicide-crop-damage/ WILMINGTON, Del. - Bankrupt power company Beacon Power Corp. on Feb. 3 filed a notice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware indicating that it had a $ 35.5 million stalking horse bid arranged (In Re: Beacon Power Corporation, No. 11-13450, Chapter 11, D. Del. Bkcy.). Original ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/305-million-bid-for-beacon-power-assets-announced/ BALTIMORE - A federal judge in Maryland on Feb. 1 awarded summary judgment to ExxonMobil Oil Corp. after finding that a plaintiff company's fraudulent concealment claim over problems with an electronic line leak detector was barred by Maryland's three-year statute of limitations (Storto Enterprises Inc. v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, et ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/judge-fraudulent-concealment-claim-in-suit-over-faulty-leak-detector-untimely/ LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in California on Feb. 1 dismissed a putative class action accusing Bank of America Co. and an affiliate insurer of pulling money from customers' bank accounts to pay for insurance policies that customers did not request or approve (Jerome White, et al. v. Bank ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/federal-judge-dismisses-class-action-alleging-bank-allowed-unauthorized-payments/ SAN FRANCISCO - A California federal judge on Feb. 1 denied in part a motion to permit interlocutory appeal by a class of iPhone purchasers in their antitrust claims against Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility Inc. (ATTM), holding that the controlling contract required resolution of the claims by individual arbitration ... http://www.scourlawyer.com/decertified-class-of-iphone-users-motion-to-certify-for-appeal-partly-denied/