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August 19, 2025
Fla. Judge Tosses Suit Against Deel Over Money Transfers
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday tossed a proposed class action accusing payroll company Deel Inc. of racketeering, ruling that a lack of a money transmitting license isn't enough to establish both standing and allegations that it facilitated millions of dollars in unlawful transfers in a scheme to defraud investors.
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August 19, 2025
Chicago Suburb Sued Over Medical History Probes
The city of Evanston, Illinois, was hit with a state court lawsuit by job applicants who allege its questions about their family medical histories violated an Illinois law barring employers from asking about genetic information and using it to make employment decisions.
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August 19, 2025
Pizza Chain Avoids Sanctions For Missing Payroll Docs
An operator of Michigan pizza restaurants will not face sanctions in a wage suit over payroll records a group of drivers claimed were missing because the company was not aware the documents were lost, a Michigan federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
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August 19, 2025
Carella Byrne Wants $4M Fee For Volkswagen Seat Defect Deal
Carella Byrne Cecchi Brody & Agnello PC asked a New Jersey federal judge Tuesday to approve $4 million in attorney fees, litigation costs and service awards for class representatives in a consumer class action involving Volkswagen vehicles with a seat defect.
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August 19, 2025
$150K Settlement Approved In Cohen Cleary Data Breach
A federal judge in Massachusetts filed an order last week granting final approval of a $150,000 settlement between law firm Cohen Cleary PC and a class of more than 12,000 former clients who sought relief after a 2022 cyberattack on the firm's computer systems.
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August 19, 2025
Energy Co. Gets Overtime Case Pushed Into Arbitration
A North Carolina federal judge pushed into arbitration a quality control worker's overtime suit against a clean energy manufacturing company, ruling that the arbitration agreement the company presented to him while he was a putative member in a related case is valid.
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August 18, 2025
Tesla Drivers Nab Class Cert. In 'Full Self-Driving' Suit
A California federal judge Monday granted class certification in a consolidated lawsuit that accused Tesla Inc. of duping drivers into falsely believing that its cars can fully pilot themselves, but made some modifications to proposed class definitions.
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August 18, 2025
Williams-Sonoma Loses Bid To Narrow Thread-Count Class
A California federal judge on Monday denied Williams-Sonoma's bid to exclude certain class members from a suit alleging it misled consumers about the thread count of its bedding, finding the company did not meet its burden to establish the consumers agreed to arbitrate their claims.
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August 18, 2025
PepsiCo Lied About Disabling Website Cookies, Suit Says
PepsiCo Inc. and its Frito-Lay North America Inc. unit are letting third parties like Google and Facebook track browsing activities and collect the information of consumers who visit the food companies' websites, despite consumers selecting "no" to unnecessary cookies, a proposed class action in California federal court alleges.
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August 18, 2025
Boeing Slams Fund's 737 Max 'Zombie' Fraud Claims
Boeing told an Illinois federal judge that an investment fund has lobbed untimely "zombie" claims seeking to hold the American aerospace giant liable for allegedly misrepresenting the overall safety of the 737 Max 8 after two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.
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August 18, 2025
Musk Seeks Early Win In Twitter Investor Fraud Case
Elon Musk has asked a California federal judge to dismiss claims brought by a class of former Twitter investors in litigation accusing the right-wing billionaire of intentionally tanking the social media platform's stock price, arguing his statements made ahead of the deal are accurate.
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August 18, 2025
Pharma Company Beats Investor Suit Over Drug Safety Claims
ChemoCentryx, a California-based pharmaceutical company, has secured summary judgment in shareholder litigation accusing it of overstating the efficacy of its newly developed treatment for an autoimmune disease called ANCA vasculitis, with a California court ruling that the ultimate regulatory approval of the drug may show that the company was not intentionally overhyping it.
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August 18, 2025
FTC Targets Ticket Resellers Over Eras Tour Sales Meltdown
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued ticket brokers in Maryland federal court for allegedly snatching up hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets and selling them at high markups after bypassing Ticketmaster's purchase limit rules and verification processes by using fake accounts and spoofed IP addresses.
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August 18, 2025
4th Circ. Revives Ethylene Oxide Suit Against Union Carbide
A split Fourth Circuit on Monday revived a West Virginia woman's lawsuit alleging that a Union Carbide Corp.- and Covestro LLC-owned plant exposed nearby residents to ethylene oxide, finding that a lower court erred in siding with the companies.
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August 18, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.
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August 18, 2025
Fla. Suit Over Atty Access To Detention Center Transferred
A Florida federal judge on Monday transferred a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the government of restricting attorney access to an Everglades immigrant detention center, ruling that the current district isn't proper for the claims against state officials.
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August 18, 2025
Pittsburgh Balks At Developer Joining Inclusive Zoning Fight
The city of Pittsburgh is urging a Pennsylvania federal court to reject a real estate trade association's bid to stop the city from enforcing an inclusionary zoning ordinance, arguing that the trade association is trying to block the ordinance on behalf of a private developer.
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August 18, 2025
GrafTech Investors' Plant Contamination Suit Gets Tossed
An Ohio federal judge threw out a shareholder lawsuit against GrafTech International Ltd. on Monday, ruling that allegations the company hid environmental contamination problems at a Mexican plant amounted to "fraud by hindsight."
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August 18, 2025
Honeywell Defeats Ex-Worker's 401(k) Forfeiture Suit
A New Jersey federal judge tossed a proposed class action Monday alleging Honeywell violated federal benefits law by putting 401(k) forfeitures toward employer-side contribution obligations instead of defraying administrative expenses, finding an ex-worker hadn't backed up claims the spending breached fiduciary duties or caused prohibited transactions.
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August 18, 2025
NFI Agrees To $5.75M Deal To End Misclassification Suit
National Freight has agreed to pay $5.75 million to end an almost 10-year-long suit in which a class of truckers claimed they were misclassified as independent contractors, the workers said, urging a New Jersey federal court to greenlight the deal.
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August 18, 2025
Akero Investor Suit Over Liver Drug Trials Permanently Tossed
A California federal judge has permanently ended Akero Therapeutics investors' proposed class action alleging they were misled about the patient population in the company's liver disease treatment clinical trial, ruling the investors did not "fill-in the logical gaps" she previously identified when dismissing their earlier pleading for failing to plead scienter.
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August 18, 2025
Investors Can't Yet Tie Logan Paul To CryptoZoo Claims
A Texas magistrate judge recommended that a proposed class action over Logan Paul's CryptoZoo project should be dismissed, writing that the group hadn't adequately connected the influencer to their claims that they were ripped off when the project failed.
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August 18, 2025
Most Ozempic, Wegovy Claims Survive MDL Dismissal Bid
Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk will have to face most of a multidistrict litigation accusing them of misleading consumers over the risks and benefits of popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Trulicity, after a Pennsylvania federal judge only trimmed a few of the dozen claims the drugmakers tried to have tossed.
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August 18, 2025
Moore & Van Allen Wants Out Of Floridians' Malpractice Suit
Moore & Van Allen PLLC has asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss a malpractice suit accusing it of mishandling some residents' employee stock ownership trust, claiming that the suit brought against the North Carolina-based firm is being litigated in the wrong venue.
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August 18, 2025
AI Security Co. Reports $15M Settlement With Investors
A Massachusetts-based company whose AI-powered weapons detection product has come under scrutiny by federal regulators over allegedly exaggerated performance claims has reached a $15 million settlement in principle with investors in consolidated proposed class actions, according to a pair of filings.
Expert Analysis
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The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape
While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation
As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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Parsing 3rd Circ. Ruling On Cannabis, Employee Private Suits
The Third Circuit recently upheld a decision that individuals don't have a private right of action for alleged violations of New Jersey's Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act, but employers should stay informed as the court encouraged the state Legislature to amend the law, say attorneys at Mandelbaum Barrett.
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Series
Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.
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Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations
In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.
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Justices Likely To Stay In ERISA's Bounds On Pleadings
The arguments in Cunningham v. Cornell showed the U.S. Supreme Court's willingness to resolve a circuit split regarding Employee Retirement Income Security Act pleading standards by staying within ERISA's confines, while instructing courts regarding what must be pled to survive a motion to dismiss, says Ryan Curtis at Fennemore Craig.
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Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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High Court Could Further Limit Deference With TCPA Fax Case
The Supreme Court's decision to hear McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, a case involving alleged junk faxes that centers whether district courts are bound by Federal Communications Commission rules, offers the court a chance to possibly further limit the judicial deference afforded to federal agency interpretations of statutes, says Samantha Duke at Rumberger Kirk.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: How MDLs Fared In 2024
A significant highlight of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's practice during 2024 was the increase in the percentage of new MDL petitions granted by the panel, with 25 granted and only eight denied — one of the highest grant rates in years, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.
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8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.