New LexisNexis Real Estate Report
New LexisNexis® Report Focuses On Bankruptcy Changes
New Report To Cover Benzene Battlefield
New LexisNexis® Antitrust Litigation News
Mealey’s™ New Executive Summaries Speed Your Research And Provide Easy Reference
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New LexisNexis Real Estate Report

Has any recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling sparked such a backlash as the 5-4 decision in Kelo v. New London that local governments can seize private property to make room for private development?

The June 2005 ruling set off a flood of protests, including a proposal to build a hotel on the property of Justice David H. Souter, who voted with the majority. Legislative activity has been hot and heavy, with lawmakers in 47 states introducing more than 325 measures to protect private property.

The business of buying and selling property and developing land today involves more than just “location, location, location.” To keep attorneys informed of all the latest developments in real estate law, LexisNexis Legal News is launching the LexisNexis Real Estate Report.

Readers can expect full coverage of all real estate issues, including eminent domain and just compensation, water rights, real estate antitrust cases, zoning, premises liability, broker commissions and disclosure obligations, Brownfields, environmental issues, adverse possession, property “flipping,” public access and violations of the Fair Housing Act.

The report will feature up-to-the-minute case news, hard-to-find filings, opinions and pleadings and summaries of legislative news.

Request a sample of the LexisNexis Real Estate Report today.

The monthly report costs $750 a year. LexisNexis subscribers will have the option of subscribing online. For subscription information, call (610) 768-7800 or contact your LexisNexis sales representative.

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New LexisNexis® Report Focuses On Bankruptcy Changes

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 contained the most significant changes to bankruptcy law in 25 years and amended nearly all Bankruptcy Code provisions.

For consumers, the act made it more difficult for people to have their debts discharged in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Under some circumstances, a person’s only bankruptcy alternative is to file under Chapter 13, which requires a repayment plan over a period of years. Also, debtors have to pay for pre-bankruptcy credit counseling.

To help attorneys understand the issues that are arising since enactment of the measure, LexisNexis Legal News has launched the LexisNexis® Bankruptcy Report, an electronic publication that covers the most significant filings and rulings in consumer bankruptcy cases, including challenges to the bankruptcy act.

The twice-monthly online report features up-to-the-minute case news, hard-to-find filings, opinions and pleadings and summaries of legislative news.

The LexisNexis® Bankruptcy Report began publication in March. For subscription information, please contact your LexisNexis sales representative.

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New Report To Cover Benzene Battlefield

It sounds familiar: People who were exposed at home or at work to a naturally occurring carcinogen with a long latency period begin to develop serious illnesses years later, triggering a raft of product liability claims.

Although it is too early to tell if it will be the next asbestos, plaintiff and defense attorneys are gearing up for battle over benzene in courtrooms all over the country.

To help litigators on both sides of the aisle keep current on the latest news in the developing litigation, LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ is launching Mealey’s Litigation Report: Benzene in June.

The report will feature up-to-the-minute case news, hard-to-find filings, opinions and pleadings, summaries of scientific reports and expert commentary, all delivered in the format familiar to readers of Mealey’s litigation reports covering toxic torts, asbestos and silica.

Here are some of the stories Mealey’s editors have been covering in the past few months:

• A Missouri state jury has awarded a $13.3 million verdict against an oil company to a plaintiff who claimed that a significant amount of petroleum products containing benzene migrated from a refinery into the residential community.

• Three more class action complaints alleging product liability personal injury causes of actions for soft drinks containing benzene have been filed in Kansas, California and the District of Columbia in recent weeks, bringing the number of putative class actions to at least five.

• A former plant chemist who is suffering leukemia from benzene exposure is arguing before the Alabama Supreme Court that the state’s “last exposure” accrual rule denies his due process rights to pursue a latent disease claim.

• A former automobile mechanic has sued a number of chemical manufacturers in Texas federal court, arguing that exposure to benzene in parts washing solvent, and in aerosol brake and carburetor cleaners, caused him to develop acute myelogenous leukemia.

• Two benzene exposure plaintiffs’ state law claims for failure to warn are not preempted by federal law because they do not demand that the manufacturers conform to a higher standard than that established by the federal government, an Arkansas federal judge has ruled, granting a motion for remand.

• The City of San Antonio is arguing to the Texas Supreme Court that an appeals court finding that benzene exposure from a landfill caused a child’s leukemia is not supported by reliable scientific evidence.

The monthly report costs $750 a year. LexisNexis subscribers will have the option of subscribing online. For subscription information, call (610) 768-7800 or contact your LexisNexis sales representative.

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New LexisNexis® Antitrust Litigation News

Doing business in a global economy is becoming increasingly complex, and businesses that run afoul of antitrust rules and regulations can face millions or billions of dollars in fines, staggering court costs, the breakup of a merger or acquisition or jail time for employees.

To help counsel keep up with the latest developments in antitrust law, LexisNexis Legal News launched the LexisNexis® Antitrust Litigation News in April.

Readers get full coverage of all antitrust issues, including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, monopolistic practices, unfair competition, price fixing and predatory pricing, bid rigging, horizontal and vertical restraints, refusal to deal, patent licensing, private treble damage actions and U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission actions.

The monthly report costs $750 a year. LexisNexis subscribers will have the option of subscribing online. For subscription information, call (610) 768-7800, visit www.mealeys.com or contact your LexisNexis sales representative.

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Mealey’s™ New Executive Summaries Speed Your Research And Provide Easy Reference

A case comes through your door involving an emerging litigation you’ve never dealt with before.

You have new associates in your firm who need to be trained quickly on a topic area.

You’re hungry for everything you can find on a litigation issue before you craft that pleading.

Sound familiar? LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ is now offering 20 new Executive Summaries on a range of hot litigation topics that can help you in any of these situations.

The Executive Summaries are compilations of cases, expert commentaries and analysis straight from the pages of Mealey’s Litigation Reports.

Just some of the topics areas include: asbestos verdicts, asbestos insurance, reinsurance arbitration, punitive damages post- Campbell, emerging insurance disputes, patents, benzene, mold, premises liability verdicts, heart devices, drug preemption, e-discovery and more.

For a complete list of executive summaries and when they will be available, visit: http://www.mealeys.com/executivesummaries.html.

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