The Third Amended Complaint Case Study

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The Third Amended Complaint no longer contains any state law claims. Plaintiff’s counsel advised that she removed all of the state tort claims from the Complaint in order to allow the Court and parties to focus on the federal claims.

With respect to the settlement conference, clients generally do not attend the conference.

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