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February 24, 2025
Bigelow Says Class Trial Is On 'Road To Nowhere'
Counsel for R.C. Bigelow Inc. urged a California federal judge Monday to call off an upcoming class action damages trial over the tea-maker's "manufactured in the USA" labels, saying the proceeding would be a "road to nowhere" because of fatally flawed sales data.
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February 24, 2025
Baby Bottle Cos. Get Parts Of Microplastics Suit Tossed
Parents who sued Philips over allegations that microplastics leach from its "BPA free" baby bottles and sippy cups saw their lawsuit partially trimmed, after a California federal judge said that the company's label isn't misleading because it doesn't promise the products are "devoid of all harmful plastic."
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February 24, 2025
Norfolk Southern's Tank Car Co. Liability Claims Head To Trial
An Ohio federal judge said that Norfolk Southern can pursue its claims seeking to have tank car companies pay at least some of the damages over 2023's East Palestine derailment, teeing up for trial key questions of liability concerning the tank cars' maintenance and transport of toxic chemicals.
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February 24, 2025
Investor Settles In $2.1B Danish Tax Fraud Case
A U.S. investor who was among those accused by Denmark's tax agency of participating in a $2.1 billion tax fraud scheme related to fraudulently claiming refunds on tax withheld from stock dividends has reached a settlement, according to New York federal court documents filed Monday.
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February 24, 2025
Colo. Justices Toss Student's COVID Refund Class Action
A Colorado State University student seeking classwide fee refunds for campus shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic can't allege unjust enrichment after her breach of contract claims were tossed, according to a state Supreme Court decision Monday that found the student's position would "obliterate the difference" between the two claims.
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February 24, 2025
Placement Co. Hit With False Ads Suit Over Referral Model
A company that places senior citizens in retirement homes was hit with proposed class claims alleging it falsely advertises free services and steers business away from communities that decline to participate in its "pay-to-play" business model.
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February 24, 2025
DraftKings Rips 'Flawed' Privacy Suit Over Meta Tracking Pixel
DraftKings Inc. wants a New York federal judge to toss a "fundamentally flawed" suit that accuses the company of disclosing customer information to third parties for targeted advertising, arguing the plaintiff is attempting to expand the Video Privacy Protection Act beyond its intended purpose.
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February 24, 2025
Investors Don't Have 'Shred' Of Fraud Evidence, Exxon Says
Exxon Mobil Corp. has told a Texas federal judge that an investor class doesn't have a "shred of evidence" that the company engaged in the stock inflation scheme the investors allege.
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February 24, 2025
Micron Faces Insider Trading Suit In New Court
A suit accusing Micron Technology Inc.'s brass of selling $70 million worth of stock just before the release of disappointing financial results has been refiled in an Idaho federal court, after an earlier iteration of the suit in a Florida federal court was voluntarily dismissed.
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February 24, 2025
FCA Didn't Forfeit Arbitration Rights In Defect Suit, Judge Says
An arbitrator must decide whether some drivers alleging Fiat Chrysler sold them vehicles with defective engines that shut off during use can pursue their claims, a Michigan federal judge said, finding the automaker didn't waive its right to seek arbitration by attacking the claims' merits before seeing if the drivers' purchase agreements had an arbitration clause.
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February 24, 2025
Justices Weigh Potentially Key Standing Issue In DNA Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday aggressively probed whether reinstating a district court ruling finding Texas' postconviction DNA testing procedures unconstitutional would give a man on death row legal standing to seek DNA evidence that could prove he is not eligible for the death penalty.
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February 24, 2025
Moves To Change Del. Corporate Law Spark Pushback
A public opposition campaign complete with website and street signs has surfaced to oppose corporation and bar-backed legislation that would overhaul Delaware stockholder litigation rights and fee awards, intensifying an already unprecedented political fight that broke out last year over corporate governance concessions.
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February 24, 2025
Class Action Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP attorneys secured several multimillion-dollar settlements in high-profile class actions last year, including in a cutting-edge privacy case against the owner of Facebook and another over the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and toxic spill, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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February 24, 2025
Prior Deal Bars Wage Suit Against Manufacturer, Panel Says
A California appeals court declined to reinstate a wage and hour suit against a flavor manufacturing company, saying the case is blocked by a prior settlement resolving identical claims against the staffing firm that placed workers with the company.
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February 21, 2025
Quinn Emanuel-Backed Clients Join Eaton Fire Litigation Fray
Southern California Edison on Friday was hit with yet another lawsuit over the destructive Eaton Fire, this time by an Altadena family represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the largest firm yet to get involved in the litigation.
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February 21, 2025
Colo. Woman Tells Jury Sterilization Plant Caused Cancer
A woman claiming medical sterilization company Terumo caused a cancer cluster in her Colorado community took the stand Friday and told a state jury that her lymphoma gave her debilitating fatigue and self-doubt.
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February 21, 2025
Drugmakers Slam 'Untimely' Claims In Employers' Antitrust Suit
Pharmaceutical companies targeted by sweeping antitrust lawsuits from major employers, including Target, Lowe's and American Airlines, have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to trim conspiracy claims from a lawsuit accusing them of orchestrating illegal agreements for price-fixing and customer allocation, arguing the allegation was unsupported and untimely.
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February 21, 2025
Unilever Settles Class Suit Over Benzene In Shampoo
Unilever has reached a deal in principle that should end a proposed class action accusing the consumer goods giant and its suppliers of selling carcinogen-tainted dry shampoo, according to a joint notice filed Thursday in Connecticut federal court.
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February 21, 2025
Judge Trims $40M Green Energy Co. Investor Suit
A Tennessee federal judge won't toss a proposed class action claiming that a Chicago green energy outfit and its executives used false promises of extravagant returns to lure investors, but ruled two defendants can escape some of the suit's claims.
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February 21, 2025
WebMD Users Secure Class Certification In Video Privacy Suit
WebMD faces a certified class action accusing the health information site of violating federal law by sharing roughly half a million of its users' video-viewing history with Facebook, after a Georgia federal judge rejected some of the website's arguments against certification as "absurd."
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February 21, 2025
Semtech Faces Investor Suit Over Revised Sales Projection
Semiconductor supplier and cloud service provider Semtech Corp. faces a proposed investor class action after it downgraded bullish sales expectations for a certain product portfolio it had earlier said would be used by chipmaker Nvidia.
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February 21, 2025
MSN Calls Novartis' Entresto Delisting Protest 'Disingenuous'
Novartis' claim that there's no rush to decide whether a patent covering its blockbuster cardiovascular drug Entresto should be removed from a key drug database is "disingenuous and a complete about-face," MSN Pharmaceuticals has told a Delaware federal judge.
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February 21, 2025
Crocs Hit With Stockholder Suit Over Heydude Revenue Woes
An investor hit Crocs Inc. and its top management Friday with a derivative suit alleging they knew that revenue growth from a newly acquired brand was driven by overstocking inventory and wasn't sustainable, claiming company insiders profited off strong revenue reports that later hurt stockholders when inventory problems reared their ugly head.
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February 21, 2025
6 Things To Know About Shein's Fast Fashion Feuds
Ultra-fast fashion behemoth Shein is facing accusations of infringing intellectual property in dozens of cases from plaintiffs ranging from major fashion brands to individual artists. Here are six things to know about Shein's intellectual property battles.
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February 21, 2025
Pharma Co. Investors Get Final OK For $3M Settlement
Investors in Colorado pharmaceutical company Ampio have gotten final approval for their $3 million deal resolving claims that its leadership mishandled a clinical trial for the company's sole drug candidate and distributed the drug outside the trial for unapproved use, leading to an internal investigation in which two executives were fired and a disclosure that there was "no clinical pathway forward" for the treatment.
Expert Analysis
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And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map
An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers
With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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How Labeling And Testing May Help Reduce PFAS Litigation
As regulators take steps to reduce consumers’ exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as forever chemicals, companies can take a proactive approach to mitigating litigation risks not only by labeling their products transparently, but also by complying with testing and marketing standards, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility
The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools
A comparison of traditional algorithmic pricing models and those powered by generative artificial intelligence can help regulators and practitioners weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models to price products or services, say Maxime Cohen at McGill University, and Tim Spittle and Jimmy Royer at Analysis Group.
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New Employer Liability Risks In Old Ill. Genetic Privacy Law
Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act has been litigated very sparsely, but two recent federal court decisions — Taylor v. Union Pacific and McKnight v. United Airlines — holding that preemployment family medical history questions violated the 1998 law may encourage more lawsuits, say Peter Berk and Madison Shepley at Clark Hill.
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DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.
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Opinion
3rd. Circ. Got It Right On Cancer Warning Claims Preemption
The Third Circuit's recent, eminently sensible ruling in a failure-to-warn case against Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act preempts state law claims, provides a road map that other courts should adopt, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation.
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Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent
A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions
Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.
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Employers Should Not Neglect Paid Military Leave Compliance
An August decision from the Ninth Circuit and the settlement of a long-running class action, both examining paid leave requirements under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, are part of a nationwide trend that should prompt employers to review their military leave policies to avoid potential litigation and reputational damage, says Bradford Kelley at Littler.