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April 15, 2025
Pharma Tech Firm Hit With Class Claims Over Data Breach
Pharmacy technology company CPS Solutions LLC allegedly failed to implement "basic data security practices" like encrypting patient information before a cybercriminal got into its email system in December, according to a new proposed class action filed in Ohio federal court.
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April 14, 2025
Judge Bars Removal Of Colo. Venezuelan Migrants For Now
A Colorado federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting any detained noncitizens in the state who could face deportation under an Alien Enemies Act proclamation seeking to quickly remove alleged Venezuelan gang members.
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April 14, 2025
Giant Eagle Agrees To Settle Ex-Worker's ERISA Suit
Grocery store chain Giant Eagle Inc. has reached a settlement with a former employee resolving a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action accusing the company of wasting millions of dollars of retirement plan participants' funds, according to a notice filed Monday.
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April 14, 2025
Workers Want Countertop Co. Found Liable For Lapsed Benefits
Participants in a countertop contractor's employee benefit plan urged a Georgia federal court Friday to grant them a partial win in their proposed class action alleging All Concepts LLC, its related home services company and two of its fiduciaries' failure to send premium payments to insurers meant the plans couldn't pay their benefits.
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April 14, 2025
Chinese Fintech Says Investors' IPO Suit Still Misses The Mark
Chinese fintech 9F Inc. pushed back on the third version of a complaint filed by its investors, saying the shareholders still fail to address their lack of standing for its claims that 9F violated securities laws by not disclosing an "illegal arrangement" it allegedly had with an insurance firm.
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April 14, 2025
Chervon Moves Explosive Battery Suit To Ill. Federal Court
Tool company Chervon North America Inc. and retailer Lowe's Home Centers LLC were hit with a proposed class action accusing them of selling lithium-ion batteries that overheated and, in some cases, caught fire, according to a complaint removed to Illinois federal court on Friday.
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April 14, 2025
Juul Seeks Ax of Noncompliant Plaintiffs In E-Cig Suits
Juul on Monday asked a California federal judge to toss claims brought by plaintiffs who failed to comply with court orders, about two years after Juul reached a $255 million global settlement in the litigation.
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April 14, 2025
9th Circ. Revives Suit Over Calif. Refinery's Pollution
A Ninth Circuit panel revived part of a class action that neighbors of a Torrance, California, refinery brought against Exxon Mobil Corp. and Torrance Refining Co. over its pollution, holding that a lower court misconstrued the scope of a trespass claim.
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April 14, 2025
Teamsters, United Want To Appeal Airline Worker Arb. Order
The Teamsters and United Airlines asked a California federal court to allow an appeal of its order finding the Railway Labor Act gives individual airline employees the right to send their grievances to arbitration despite the union's objection, looking to take the dispute to the Ninth Circuit.
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April 14, 2025
Apple Wants Renewed Cloud Storage Monopoly Suit Tossed
Apple has urged a California federal court to toss the latest version of a proposed class action alleging it gives its iCloud service an advantage over third-party cloud storage providers, saying it limits certain remote-backup features for security and privacy.
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April 14, 2025
Judge Threatens Penalties Over Late Report In Fla. Fee Suit
A Florida federal judge threatened parties in a federal proposed class action over excessive fees charged to maintain retirement savings plans, warning there will be sanctions if they do not respond to an order to show why they failed to timely file a case management report.
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April 14, 2025
Chiquita Wants New Trial In $38M Paramilitary Case
Chiquita has told the Eleventh Circuit that the landmark $38 million verdict in a bellwether case in multidistrict litigation accusing the company of paying Colombian right-wing paramilitaries was the product of numerous errors by the district court, including an instruction that improperly gave jurors a "watered-down causation standard."
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April 14, 2025
Telescope Buyers Get Final OK On $32M Antitrust Deal
Celestron and several other rival telescope makers have convinced a California federal court to give their $32 million settlement to end claims that they had been working together to hike up the price of the stargazing devices its final seal of approval, after nearly five years of litigation.
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April 14, 2025
Auto Insurers Can't Shake Feds' Forced Coverage Claims
A group of insurers will have to face the federal government's claims that they forced auto-loan customers to pay for unnecessary "collateral protection insurance" by setting an unreasonably high bar for proving the borrowers held other auto insurance policies, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday, concluding that the United States had satisfied pleading standards.
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April 14, 2025
Avocado Oil Co. Says Purity Test Doesn't Support Label Suit
Food company Sovena USA Inc. is looking to end a proposed class action accusing it of falsely labeling as "100% pure" its avocado oil that it allegedly diluted with "cheaper" seed oils, telling a California federal judge the suit lacks evidence and is part of a "baseless" litigation campaign meant to undermine the industry.
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April 14, 2025
Greystar Faces Consolidation Of Colo. Tenant 'Junk Fee' Suits
A Colorado multidistrict litigation panel on Monday recommended consolidating four tenant class actions against the property management company Greystar before a single state court, following a hearing where tenants argued that allowing the "junk fee" cases to proceed separately could draw conflicting court decisions.
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April 14, 2025
7th Circ. Judge Skeptical Of NCAA Racial Bias Suit's Theory
A Seventh Circuit judge on Monday pressed counsel for a student alleging that the NCAA's Academic Performance Program discriminates against student-athletes at historically Black colleges and universities to address how she could have standing to sue if her lacrosse team was not penalized under the challenged academic standards.
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April 14, 2025
BigBear AI Faces Suit Over Accounting Of Convertible Notes
Artificial intelligence-driven management solutions company BigBear.ai Holdings Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging it concealed weaknesses in its internal financial controls, causing it to restate three years of financial filings and adjust the conversion rates of previously issued notes.
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April 14, 2025
7th Circ. Won't Transfer Honeywell Pension Suit To NC
The Seventh Circuit turned down Honeywell's bid to transfer a retiree's proposed class action alleging pension plan miscalculations from Illinois to North Carolina, finding the aerospace manufacturer's request for extraordinary appellate court relief was not justified.
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April 14, 2025
DC Medical Drivers Get Partial Win In Wage Suit
A class of drivers alleging a medical transportation services company didn't pay full wages succeeded on its claim that the firm is a general contractor to other companies that directly employed the drivers, but failed to show the firm was the workers' joint employer, a D.C. federal judge ruled.
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April 14, 2025
NCAA Wins Redacted Document Spat In Volunteer Coach Suit
A group of plaintiffs suing the NCAA over suppressed wages for volunteer coaches lost its bid to force the organization to turn over an unredacted version of a particular document, with a Monday ruling asserting the information is protected by attorney-client privilege.
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April 14, 2025
10th Circ. Revives Takings Suit Over Colo. Property Law
The Tenth Circuit revived a suit filed by Colorado residents who claimed the state unconstitutionally used its unclaimed-property law to take their properties, finding the residents sufficiently claimed the state failed to provide just compensation.
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April 14, 2025
Top Court Ruling Dooms Suit Challenging Housing Grant Cuts
A federal judge in Boston on Monday vacated an earlier ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from cutting $30 million in housing anti-discrimination grants, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a similar case involving teacher training grants likely strips the court of jurisdiction.
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April 14, 2025
Class Attys Seek $20.2M Fee For RTX No-Poach Deals
DiCello Levitt LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and counsel at two Connecticut firms are seeking nearly $20.2 million in fees plus $2.65 million in expenses after hammering out $60.5 million in settlements with the Pratt & Whitney division of RTX Corp. and five contractors accused of illegally agreeing not to hire one another's aerospace engineers.
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April 14, 2025
Greenblatt Pierce Wins DuPont Wage Case Fee Spat With Atty
Philadelphia firm Greenblatt Pierce Funt & Flores LLC has been awarded fees in a case against a former member who took over an employment class action against DuPont, with a city judge ruling that it was entitled to a piece of the settlement's fee for the work it put into the case.
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NFL Seeks To End Race-Based Concussion Tests After Outcry
The NFL said Wednesday it will push to end the use of "race-norming," which assumes Black former players start with lower baseline cognitive test scores, in assessing claims for payouts from the more than $1 billion concussion settlement amid allegations that it is discriminatory.
Expert Analysis
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work
Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.
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How Cos. Can Mitigate Increasing Microplastics Liability Risk
Amid rising scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe of microplastics' impact on health and the growing threat of litigation against consumer product and food and beverage manufacturers, companies can limit liability through compliance with labeling laws, careful contract management and other practices, say attorneys at Rogers Joseph.
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Meta Case Brings Customer-Facing Statements Issue To Fore
Now that Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank has returned to California federal court after the U.S. Supreme Court in November found it improvidently granted certiorari, it will be worth watching whether customer-facing communications, such as Facebook's privacy policies, are found to be made in connection with the sale of a security, says Samuel Groner at Fried Frank.
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A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process
The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.
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Improv Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Improv keeps me grounded and connected to what matters most, including in my legal career where it has helped me to maintain a balance between being analytical, precise and professional, and creative, authentic and open-minded, says Justine Gottshall at InfoLawGroup.
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How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms
Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Opinion
Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital
Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition
Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate
While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Birding Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Observing and documenting birds in their natural habitats fosters patience, sharpens observational skills and provides moments of pure wonder — qualities that foster personal growth and enrich my legal career, says Allison Raley at Arnall Golden.
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Alien Enemies Act Case Could Reshape Executive Power
President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals raises fundamental questions about statutory interpretation, executive power and constitutional structure, which now lay on the U.S. Supreme Court's doorstep, says Mauni Jalali at Quinn Emanuel.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw
The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.
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Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield
Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind
As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.