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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Suit: Dallas Firm Preyed on Vulnerable Homebuyers in Ohio |  | In a sweeping lawsuit, Cincinnati took aim at one of the nation's largest sellers of foreclosed homes, Harbour Portfolio Advisors, saying that the Dallas firm owes more than $360,000 in unpaid fines, fees and violation notices. The firm failed to properly maintain dozens of homes, the city claims, leading in one case to a child's testing positive for lead poisoning. The lawsuit against Harbour is the first of several that Cincinnati plans to file against out-of-state firms that acquired rundown homes in the wake of the housing crisis and then resold them at inflated prices without making repairs.
Wire Services, The Dallas Morning News 04/24/2017    | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Supreme Court Rejects GM Bid to Block Ignition Switch Suits | | GM bid to block hundreds of lawsuits, potentially worth billions of dollars, over a deadly ignition-switch defect broke down on Monday when the Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal claiming the suits were barred by the No. 1 U.S. automaker's 2009 bankruptcy. The justices declined to review a 2016 ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that rejected GM's bid to block customer lawsuits related to crashes and diminished vehicle value because the plaintiffs had not been properly notified of the defect prior to the bankruptcy filing.
Andrew Chung, Reuters 04/24/2017 | | Read Article: Reuters |
| GSK's Paxil Loss Forces 7th Circ. Generic Liability Showdown | | Thursday's $3 million jury verdict finding GlaxoSmithKline liable for a Reed Smith LLP partner's death means that the Seventh Circuit may finally have to answer a question it avoided three years ago, one that is a hot topic among product liability lawyers: Can brand-name manufacturers be held liable for an injury caused by a generic drug?
Jessica Corso, Law360 ($) 04/24/2017 | | Read Article: Law360 ($) |
| Family Files Suit Over Fatal Soybean Plant Explosion | | A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a man who died in an explosion at a soybean plant in South Dakota. The 39-year-old man was killed when an industrial tank exploded while he was installing a catwalk. According to the lawsuit, officials with the South Dakota Soybean Processors plant in Volga were negligent in the incident. The defendants "did not assess and identify that the material within the tank produced flammable vapors and failed wot warn the contractor performing the welding activities," an investigation into the explosion concluded.
Jonathan Ellis, Sioux Falls Argus Leader 04/20/2017 | | Read Article: Sioux Falls Argus Leader |
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