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A pair of Philadelphia tenants at a self-described luxury apartment complex voluntarily dropped the trio of real estate entities who currently own the apartments from their proposed class action claiming they failed to follow the city's new lead safety disclosure rule, leaving only the two companies who formerly owned the complex.

The Ohio Supreme Court denied two Ohio residents' challenge to a proposed amendment to the state's constitution that would protect abortion rights if the voters approve it in November, with one justice writing in a separate opinion that the challengers misunderstood the effect the amendment would have on existing law.

A Pennsylvania real estate developer tore into Meyers Roman Friedberg & Lewis Co. LPA's effort to dismiss his malpractice suit against the Cleveland-area law firm over a soured deal that allegedly cost him $9.8 million, arguing its motion includes "circular nonsense" and hypocritical statements.

An Ohio state appeals court revived a couple's water damage suit against a suburban Cincinnati school district and the construction firms working on a project for it Thursday, ruling that the lower court wrongly dismissed their claims that the work flooded their basement over "a real-world Catch-22" in the law.

Procter & Gamble Co. urged a New York federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing it of misleading consumers into believing its Gain brand laundry detergent is environmentally friendly, arguing reasonable consumers "would not be misled in the implausible manner plaintiff alleges."

A Michigan state appeals panel has ruled that the doctrine preventing matters from being repeatedly litigated in separate cases can also be wielded within a single matter, issuing a decision that wiped out certain pretrial challenges in a referral fee fight stemming from a $10 million jury verdict.

North Carolina pushed the state's high court to reverse a business court judge's decision that a contractor deserves tax breaks on equipment purchases meant for manufacturers, arguing that the contractor is not actually a manufacturer and primarily uses the asphalt product it makes for its contracting work.

An Ohio federal judge gave a lobbyist who pled guilty to wire fraud six months in prison following a Sixth Circuit reversal of his previous order, which had laid out a no-jail sentence that the appellate court said might have been influenced by the judge's personal relationship with the defendant.

A bladder cancer patient hit an Ohio health network with a negligence suit claiming one of its registered nurses gave him tuberculosis and worsened his bladder cancer by incorrectly inserting a catheter and not addressing it when he was "actively bleeding."

An Ohio state appeals court declined to throw out a lawyer's wrongful termination suit against a government office she used to serve as general counsel for, but did rule that the lower court should have sealed her amended complaint for including details covered by attorney-client privilege.