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New York, NY: Marie Wilson was a spry and fit 86-year-old who still enjoyed hiking—that is until she slipped and fell on a plastic drop cloth left laying on the floor of her Manhattan apartment during a renovation project in 2009.The contractor blamed the building owners, the building owners blamed the contractor, and with no offer on the table to pay for Wilson’s injuries, her lawyer Glenn Herman said there was no choice but to go to trial. And in a made-in-Hollywood decision, the jury came back and awarded Wilson, the spunky senior, more than her lawyers had asked for. After a six-day trial, it took the jury just 40 minutes to return to the courtroom with its answer. Read all post…

WASHINGTON — Already a killer storm, Hurricane Irene sloshed into the New York metropolitan area Sunday, adhering to a course that pushed mountains of seawater – and vast volumes of rain – into the city, many of its suburbs and much of the surrounding region.

“The flooding will be epic and there will be water in places you never dreamed,” said forecaster Eric Blake of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Even before Irene reached one of the nation’s most heavily populated regions, at least eight deaths were attributed to the storm, a summer weekend terror that clung to, ravaged and swamped the East Coast from North Carolina all the way to New England.

Outages cut power to more than 2 million customers, complicating efforts to prepare for or recover from the storm.

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Syracuse, NY — A sewer grate in the city of Syracuse weighs 5 pounds and can be extremely difficult to dislodge, depending on how long it17s been in place.

Since July, somebody has stolen 6 of them.

City police Sgt. Tom Connellan confirmed Saturday that police are looking for whoever has been stealing the galvanized steel sewer grates, presumably to sell as scrap metal. So far, the police have made no arrests.

They17re metal, and anything metal is worth money,1 Connellan said. It17s a problem.1 Several Central New York scrap dealers said they pay as much as 13 cents a pound for steel, making each stolen grate worth $3 to $33 at a scrap yard.

The city pays $6 each to buy new grates, said Tom Simone, first deputy commissioner of public works.

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In Ball v. DLites Enterprises (4D09-4859), the Fourth District held that ”that statements made on a partys website are not protected by the litigation privilege.” The court described the facts as follows:

According to the plaintiffs, they were induced to enter into these agreements by representations about the nutritional content, and low caloric values of the ice cream, and were told these light products could be sold to diabetics. DLites supplied the product for the ice cream, but the plaintiffs found that it was virtually impossible for them to meet the nutritional requirements promised to them using DLites goods. They requested that the defendants modify the formula but the defendants declined to do so. Wi

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White & Case has strengthened its London capital markets group with the hire of a US securities duo from Latham & Watkins in a move that will also see the US firm re-enter the Italian market.

London-based partners Michael Immordino and Ian Clark, who both handed in their notice earlier today (28 July), will be joining White & Case on Monday (1 August) after several weeks of discussions.

In a related move, White & Case is to launch in Milan, re-entering the Italian market three years after it pulled the plug on its 15-lawyer local practice following a strategic review.

Immordino’s capital markets experience covers advising investment banks and issuers in public offerings.

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