Class Action

  • February 21, 2025

    Exxon Can't Dodge RICO Claims In Puerto Rico Federal Court

    A U.S. magistrate judge said Puerto Rican municipalities should be allowed to pursue racketeering and antitrust claims against energy companies including Exxon Mobil Corp. that they allege misrepresented the climate dangers of fossil fuel products.

  • February 21, 2025

    Alcon Hit With Suit Over Allegedly Contaminated Eye Drops

    Alcon Laboratories Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court alleging that its eye drops are contaminated by fungus, in a case brought by a woman who says she was injured by using the drops for months.

  • February 21, 2025

    Aerotech Can't Escape Workers' ESOP Investment Suit

    A Pennsylvania federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action from participants in a motion control technology company's employee stock ownership plan who alleged mismanagement, finding allegations that the company's low-risk investment strategy violated federal benefits law could proceed to discovery.

  • February 21, 2025

    UChicago Medical Center Can't Duck Wage Suit

    An Illinois federal judge largely allowed a proposed class action brought by UChicago Medical Center workers seeking to recover unpaid wages for the time spent undergoing mandatory, pre-shift COVID-19 screenings to move forward, rejecting the center's argument that the screenings weren't "integral and indispensable" to employees' job duties.

  • February 21, 2025

    Weight Loss Drug Patient Drops Appeal In Cancer Risk Suit

    Days after arguing her case before a skeptical Third Circuit panel, a woman who alleges she suffered financial harm by buying a weight loss drug that purportedly causes cancer — which she said she has not been diagnosed with — has voluntarily dismissed the case.

  • February 21, 2025

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Boies Schiller

    Boies Schiller Flexner LLP remained in the vanguard of high-impact class action victories throughout last year, including a deal with Google in which the search giant agreed to delete billions of records marking users' activities in the browser's incognito mode, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    NY Restaurant $725K Wage, Tip Deal Served Final OK

    A federal judge approved a $725,000 deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing a New York City restaurant of stiffing service workers on wages and misapplying a tip credit to their overtime pay, according to a federal court filing.

  • February 21, 2025

    Kroger Workers' $21M Pay System Outage Deal Gets First Nod

    An Ohio federal judge preliminarily approved a $21 million deal between The Kroger Co. and a proposed class of around 47,000 workers who accused it of missing paychecks and making inaccurate deductions to their wages after it switched payroll systems.

  • February 21, 2025

    Justices Knock Ala. For Immunizing State Officials

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled a group of Alabama unemployment applicants can pursue allegations that delays in the state's benefits review process violated their federal civil rights, holding a state law that requires litigants to exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit doesn't bar their procedural claims.

  • February 20, 2025

    Florida Hits Target With New Suit Over Pride Month Merch

    The state of Florida's investment management body Thursday became the latest to sue Target Corp. over its Pride-themed merchandise, saying the retail giant "betrayed" investors with its "exceptionally offensive" LGBTQ marketing campaign and product lines.

  • February 20, 2025

    Chinese App Temu Wants To Arbitrate Minors' Privacy Claims

    Chinese bargain-shopping app Temu has asked a New York federal judge to send to arbitration a proposed class action claiming it misuses users' data, saying an arbitrator must decide any challenges to the terms of a user agreement even though some named class members are minors.

  • February 20, 2025

    Judge Narrows Data Breach Suit Against Ga. Logistics Co.

    A group of employees and job applicants who sued a Georgia-based logistics and warehousing company over a 2023 data breach have had their suit trimmed by a Georgia federal judge, who said they failed to plausibly allege several of their claims.

  • February 20, 2025

    Generic-Drug Group Rallies Behind Appeal In Entresto Fight

    A generic-drug industry group is weighing in on the Federal Circuit's move last month to revive a patent tied to Entresto, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp's blockbuster heart drug, warning that "the pharmaceutical industry is watching this case closely."

  • February 20, 2025

    Bob Iger Insider Trading Claim Cut From Disney+ Investor Suit

    A Los Angeles federal judge narrowed a putative securities class action over The Walt Disney Co.'s underperforming streaming service Disney+ on Wednesday, saying investors haven't sufficiently pled that CEO Bob Iger illegally sold off $375 million worth of holdings amid inflated subscriber growth predictions.

  • February 20, 2025

    Del. Chief Justice Targets Social Media's Pressure On Courts

    Acknowledging that "some of those who lose don't take it well" and have tools to "cause judges great pain," Delaware's chief justice told a state budget panel Thursday that social media had amplified dissatisfaction with some court rulings despite global respect for the state's system.

  • February 20, 2025

    Wells Fargo, AAA Look To Nix Fraudulent Inducement Suit

    Wells Fargo and the American Arbitration Association are urging a California federal judge to nix a proposed class action accusing them of colluding to fraudulently induce consumers into accepting a fundamentally unfair arbitration process, with the bank arguing that the claims must be arbitrated.

  • February 20, 2025

    Textbook Authors Seek Final OK Of $20M Royalties Deal

    A class of authors asked a New York federal judge Wednesday to give his final blessing to a $20 million settlement resolving their claims that an educational content company broke its publishing agreement by underpaying promised royalties, calling the deal "an excellent result under any metric."

  • February 20, 2025

    3rd Circ. Denies Concussion Benefits For 18 Ex-NFL Players

    The Third Circuit denied the families of 18 late NFL players access to funds under the league's historic concussion settlement Thursday, saying benefits can only be given to players diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy after death.

  • February 20, 2025

    Kim Kardashian's Skims Hit With ADA Lawsuit

    A proposed class action filed Thursday in Illinois federal court accuses Skims.com, a shapewear retailer founded by reality star Kim Kardashian, of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act with "significant access barriers" that make it "difficult if not impossible" for visually impaired customers to navigate the website. 

  • February 20, 2025

    AmerisourceBergen Strikes Settlement In 401(k) Fee Suit

    AmerisourceBergen and a proposed class of workers who alleged their employee 401(k) plan was saddled with excessive recordkeeping and administrative costs have struck a settlement deal to resolve the dispute, according to a filing in Kentucky federal court.

  • February 20, 2025

    Trade Desk's Rollout Of AI Product Draws Ire From Investors

    Global digital marketing venture The Trade Desk Inc. was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging it misled investors about the rollout of its artificial intelligence-driven ad-buying platform by hiding execution problems that delayed adoption and hurt revenue.

  • February 20, 2025

    Schwab Antitrust Settlement With Investors Gets Initial OK

    A Texas federal judge has granted the first green light to a settlement calling for Charles Schwab Corp. to implement an antitrust compliance program designed by an independent consultant, resolving a class of retail investors' claims they had to pay increased transaction costs for trades following the Schwab-TD Ameritrade merger in 2020.

  • February 20, 2025

    Education Tech Firm Faces Class Action In NC Over Data Hack

    A nationwide education technology platform got hit with a proposed class action in North Carolina on Thursday over a "massive and preventable cyberattack" which allegedly exposed personal information including health data for up to 18,000 of its users.

  • February 20, 2025

    Drug Buyers Get OK On $275M Sandoz Antitrust Settlement

    Swiss drugmaker Sandoz and its subsidiaries will pay consumers, insurers and other "end payer plaintiffs" $275 million to settle class action claims that it conspired with other companies to fix the price of certain generic drugs, under a deal that got preliminary approval from a Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.

  • February 20, 2025

    Snapshot: Delaware Lawmakers Target Hefty Atty Fee Awards

    Amid a push by Delaware lawmakers to overhaul the First State's corporation law provisions, the state Senate is seeking recommendations aimed at avoiding "excessive" attorney fee awards in corporate litigation, drawing a mixed reaction from lawyers and a corporate law scholar.

Expert Analysis

  • Unpacking Jurisdiction Issues In 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

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    The Third Circuit's recent ruling in George v. Rushmore Service Center could be interpreted to establish three principles regarding district courts' jurisdiction to enter arbitration-related orders under the Federal Arbitration Act, two of which may lead to confusion, says David Cinotti at Pashman Stein.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings

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    Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • What BIPA Reform Law Means For Biometrics Litigation

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    A recently signed Illinois law amending the Biometric Information Privacy Act limits defendants' liability exposure on a per-scan basis and clarifies that electronic signatures constitute a valid written release, establishing additional issues that courts will need to address in future BIPA litigation, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

  • RealPage Suit Shows Growing Algorithm, AI Pricing Scrutiny

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's suit against RealPage for helping fix rental rates, filed last week, demonstrates how the use of algorithmic and artificial intelligence tools to assist with pricing decisions is drawing increasing scrutiny and action across government agencies, and specifically at the Federal Trade Commission and the DOJ, say Andre Geverola and Leah Harrell at Arnold & Porter.

  • Comparing 5 Administrators' Mass Arbitration Procedures

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    Attorneys at DLA Piper compare the rules for mass arbitrations at five different arbitration providers — Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, American Arbitration Association, National Arbitration and Mediation, FedArb and New Era ADR — including their triggers, claim screening procedures, how and when they assess fees, and more.

  • What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral Law Hires

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    Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.

  • Opinion

    Toxic Water Case Shows Need For Labeling To Protect Kids

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    A recent case involving contaminated alkaline water that inflicted severe liver damage on children underscores the risks that children can face from products not specifically targeted to them, and points to the need for stricter labeling standards for all bottled water, says Vineet Dubey at Custodio & Dubey.

  • Calif. Ruling Clarifying Paystub Compliance Is Win For Cos.

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    In rare good news for California employers, the state Supreme Court recently clarified that workers couldn’t win extra penalties in wage and hour cases by claiming their employer intentionally violated state paystub law if the employer believed it had complied in good faith, say Drei Munar and Kirk Hornbeck at Hunton.

  • Replacing The Stigma Of Menopause With Law Firm Support

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    A large proportion of the workforce is forced to pull the brakes on their career aspirations because of the taboo surrounding menopause and a lack of consistent support, but law firms can initiate the cultural shift needed by formulating thoughtful workplace policies, says Barbara Hamilton-Bruce at Simmons & Simmons.

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