Quinn Emanuel Says 3M Fee Proposal Undervalues Its Work
By Carolina Bolado
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has objected to a special master's recommendation on the allocation of common benefit fees in the $6 billion settlement that ended multidistrict litigation against 3M over allegedly faulty combat earplugs, saying the amount doesn't value the "length, extent and impact" of the firm's work.
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Sandoz Still Can't Escape Generics Claims From GM, Others
By Lauren Berg
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday declined to rethink her decision forcing Sandoz's Swiss parent company to face generic-drug price-fixing claims from major employers like American Airlines Inc. and General Motors LLC, saying the pharmaceutical company "has no new evidence" backing up its argument that the court lacks personal jurisdiction.
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Brokerage Workers Say $1.05B Sale Shortchanged Them
By Jarek Rutz
A proposed class action in Delaware Chancery Court alleges the founders and directors of insurance brokerage startup Newfront Insurance Holdings Inc. breached fiduciary duties by forcing employee shareholders to accept inferior merger consideration and restrictive employment conditions in the company's $1.05 billion sale to Willis Towers Watson PLC.
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Major Chipmakers Sued For Price-Fixing Amid 'RAMpocalypse'
By Lauren Berg
Artificial intelligence demands huge amounts of computer memory, causing Apple and other retailers to raise prices amid random access memory shortages, but a California federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges Samsung Electronics Co., SK Hynix Inc. and Micron Technology Inc. have exacerbated this so-called RAMpocalypse by fixing memory supply and prices.
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Meta Fails To Knock Out BIPA Voiceprint Privacy Claims
By Rae Ann Varona
A California federal judge has refused to let Meta Platforms Inc. escape an Illinois woman's proposed class claims that Meta collects "voiceprints" in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, saying in a ruling unsealed Thursday that whether Meta obtained her voice recordings in a way capable of identifying her was still up for dispute.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
By Michele Gorman
A Connecticut federal judge told attorneys to challenge clients who demand use of generative artificial intelligence tools to conduct legal research, and a Kansas federal judge blocked a state law imposing requirements on proxy advisers' voting recommendations. These were among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
By Kevin Penton
Clement & Murphy PLLC, Covington & Burling LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Monsanto a win in its long-running battle over the labeling of alleged cancer risks of its bestselling weedkiller Roundup.
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