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March 18, 2025
Illinois Asbestos Injury Firm Escapes 'Fraud Playbook' Suit
A Chicago federal judge on Tuesday tossed a racketeering suit an industrial pipe company brought against a "prolific" Illinois asbestos litigation law firm, finding that the pipe company failed to adequately plead that the law firm formed an "enterprise" with various clients, witnesses, co-counsel and staff.
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March 18, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Boosts Litigation Team With 4 Denver Attys
A team of four litigators have joined Greenberg Traurig LLP's growing Denver office, including a shareholder who was tapped to lead the office's litigation practice.
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March 18, 2025
Pa. Shell Plant Workers Get Cert. For Commute Time Suit
Hundreds of contractors who helped build Shell's petrochemical plant in Western Pennsylvania can be represented in a lawsuit seeking pay for extra time they spent being shuttled between the worksite and satellite parking, after a federal judge granted class certification Tuesday.
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March 18, 2025
Carnival Co. Must Face H-2B Visa Workers' Wage Suit
A traveling carnival business and its president cannot avoid a proposed class action alleging they forced workers employed through the H-2B visa program to work long hours without overtime pay, a Virginia federal judge ruled, saying there's not enough evidence to warrant a pretrial win.
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March 17, 2025
Meta Facing Investor Suit Over €1.2B EU Data Privacy Fine
A pair of pension funds on Monday filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing the company of repeatedly violating data privacy laws, a pattern that the funds say led to the company being fined €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European authorities.
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March 17, 2025
Yeti Escapes Suit Over Third-Party Info Sharing
A California federal judge has freed Yeti from a woman's proposed class action accusing the cooler and drinkware company of disclosing people's personal and financial information to a payment processor without consent, saying the woman's now twice-amended complaint didn't fix problems the court had previously highlighted.
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March 17, 2025
Poppi Buyers Ink $8.9M Deal Over 'Gut Healthy' Soda Claims
A group of Poppi-brand soda consumers asked a California federal judge Friday to greenlight an $8.9 million proposed settlement that would resolve consolidated false advertising claims alleging the beverage company misleadingly touted its products as "prebiotics for a healthy gut."
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March 17, 2025
Kroger Shakes Calif. Suit Over Interception Of Website Chats
A California federal judge has refused to hold The Kroger Co. liable for a third party's allegedly unlawful eavesdropping on Kroger website users' chats, in a ruling that the grocery chain's counsel predicted could have a "wide impact" on the crush of state wiretapping litigation currently flooding the courts.
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March 17, 2025
PVC Pipe Co. Faces Investor COVID-Era Antitrust Claims
PVC pipe maker Atkore Inc. and three current and former executives face a proposed investor class action over the company's alleged involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices for PVC pipes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 17, 2025
Google To Pay $28M On Claim It Favored White, Asian Workers
Google LLC will pay $28 million to put to rest allegations it pays and promotes certain nonwhite employees less than their white and Asian colleagues, counsel for a class of workers said Monday.
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March 17, 2025
Biz Groups Push For High Court Review Of Cisco Spying Case
National business groups are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision reviving a suit from a class of Falun Gong practitioners alleging that Cisco aided in the Chinese government's crackdown on the religious movement, claiming that the circuit's ruling could chill foreign investment and disadvantage American companies.
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March 17, 2025
Singaporean Tech Co. Inks $46M Investor Settlement
Singaporean tech conglomerate Sea Ltd. has reached a $46 million settlement to end a putative securities class action over investor statements that allegedly downplayed massive losses to its video game and e-commerce divisions, according to a filing in Arizona federal court.
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March 17, 2025
Toyota Seeks Exit From Investors' Emission Tests Fraud Suit
Toyota Motor Corp. has asked a California federal judge to dump a proposed class action alleging it deceived investors by failing to thoroughly investigate reports of falsified vehicle certification data, saying the plaintiffs have twisted executives' public statements to inflate their securities fraud claims.
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March 17, 2025
Del. Corporate Law Rework Has Roots In 2 Academic Papers
A proposed overhaul of Delaware's corporations law that has rocked the First State's legal world has its origins in two works published in 2021 and 2001, written by some of the same jurists who helped draft legislation driven by alarm over corporate charter exits and shareholder suits.
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March 17, 2025
PBMs Hit With Antitrust Suit Over GoodRx Generics Program
A Denver pharmacy has filed a proposed class action against GoodRx, CVS and other major pharmacy benefit managers in Colorado federal court, alleging they engaged in an illegal price-fixing scheme that artificially suppressed the prices paid to independent pharmacies for reimbursement of generic drug claims.
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March 17, 2025
NYC To Pay $140M To End Taxi Drivers' Unfair Suspension Suit
New York City has agreed to pay $140 million to settle a nearly two-decade-old federal class action alleging its practice of summarily suspending licenses for taxi drivers who've been arrested but not yet convicted deprives them of due process by denying them meaningful opportunities to challenge their suspensions.
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March 17, 2025
Amazon Hit With Greenwashing Suit Over Paper Products
Consumers in four different states have launched a proposed class action against Amazon in Washington federal court, accusing the retail giant of greenwashing its claims about its "Basics" line of paper products and misleading buyers about the sustainability of products whose supply chains are in fact "deeply unsustainable."
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March 17, 2025
Jazz Inks Insurer Class Deal As Xyrem Antitrust Trial Nears
Jazz Pharmaceuticals and a certified insurer class told a California federal judge Monday that they have reached a settlement-in-principle in antitrust litigation accusing Jazz of working with pharma rival Hikma to block generic competitors to Jazz's narcolepsy drug, while two opt-out insurer plaintiffs and defendant Hikma have not reached any deals ahead of a May trial.
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March 17, 2025
Exxon Committed 'Straightforward Fraud,' Investors Say
Exxon Mobil Corp. investors told a Texas federal court that the energy giant's antics surrounding its operations in Kearl Lake amount to a "straightforward fraud," and that the court should reject Exxon's bid for judgment as a matter of law.
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March 17, 2025
Amazon Beats Investor Suit Over Third-Party Seller Practices
A Washington federal judge on Monday tossed a consolidated proposed securities class action claiming Amazon and its top brass duped investors about the company's fulfillment capacity and third-party seller practices, finding the lawsuit doesn't sufficiently allege the executives were deliberately reckless or motivated to deceive shareholders.
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March 17, 2025
Burger King Workers Defend Revived No-Poach Case
Burger King employees are defending their proposed class action over the fast-food chain's past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements, as the restaurant urges a Florida federal court to toss the claims despite an appeals court reviving them in 2022.
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March 17, 2025
4 Suits Benefits Attys Should Watch As ESG Pressures Persist
A New York City pension fund recently escaped a proposed class action challenging its decision to divest nearly $4 billion in fossil fuel stocks, but experts say potential liability related to environmental, social and governance investment factors in retirement plan investment decisions is on the rise. Here are four suits involving challenges to employee retirement plan investing and ESG that attorneys say they're watching after New York City escaped a suit from its workers.
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March 17, 2025
Hershey Customer Agrees To End Metals-In-Chocolate Suit
A Hershey customer has agreed to permanently end her suit accusing the confectionery giant of selling dark chocolate products containing dangerous levels of heavy metals, but left open the opportunity for absent proposed class members to pursue claims, according to a notice filed Monday in California federal court.
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March 17, 2025
X Corp. Says Dismissal, Sanctions Go Together In Bonus Suit
A former X Corp. senior director of compensation engaged in "vexatious conduct" that should not allow him to drop his suit claiming unpaid bonuses without sanctions, the social media platform told a California federal judge.
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March 17, 2025
$4.4B Alteryx Sale Was Lowball Offer, Investors Tell Del. Court
Former stockholders of cloud-based enterprise analytics platform Alteryx Inc. have challenged the venture's allegedly lowball, $4.4 billion sale in 2024 to two private equity buyers, claiming breaches of fiduciary duty in Delaware Chancery Court that include undisclosed conflicts among directors and key officers.
Editor's Picks
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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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Making The Case For Rest In The Legal Profession
For too long, a culture of overwork has plagued the legal profession, but research shows that attorneys need rest to perform optimally and sustainably, so legal organizations and individuals must implement strategies that allow for restoration, says Marissa Alert at MDA Wellness, Carol Ross-Burnett at CRB Global, and Denise Robinson at The Still Center.
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4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy
This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.
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Unpacking First Consumer Claim Under Wash. Health Data Act
The first consumer class action claim filed under Washington's My Health My Data Act, Maxwell v. Amazon.com, may answer questions counsel have been contending with since the law was introduced almost a year ago, if the court takes the opportunity to interpret some of more opaque language, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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IRS Scrutiny May Underlie Move Away From NIL Collectives
The University of Colorado's January announcement that it was severing its partnership with a name, image and likeness collective is part of universities' recent push to move NIL activities in-house, seemingly motivated by tax implications and increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.
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Opinion
NCAA Name, Image, Likeness Settlement Is A $2.8B Mistake
While the plaintiffs in House v. NCAA might call the proposed settlement on name, image and likeness payments for college athletes a breakthrough, it's a legally dubious Band-Aid that props up a system favoring a select handful of male athletes at the expense of countless others, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.
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Implications Of Kid Privacy Rule Revamp For Parents, Cos.
The Federal Trade Commission's recent amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act will expand protections for children online, meaning parents will have greater control over their children's data and tech companies must potentially change their current privacy practices — or risk noncompliance, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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Examining Trump Meme Coin And SEC's Crypto Changes
While the previous U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tended to view most crypto-assets as securities, the tide is rapidly changing, and hopefully the long-needed reevaluation of this regulatory framework is not tarnished by an arguable conflict of interest due to President Donald Trump's affiliation with the $Trump meme coin, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.
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FLSA Ruling Shows Split Over Court Approval Of Settlements
A Kentucky federal court's recent ruling in Bazemore v. Papa John's highlights a growing trend of courts finding they are not required, or even authorized, to approve private settlements releasing Fair Labor Standards Act claims, underscoring a jurisdictional split and open questions that practitioners need to grapple with, say attorneys at Vedder Price.
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Recent Cases Suggest ESG Means 'Ever-Shifting Guidelines'
U.S. courts have recently handed down a number of contradictory decisions on important environmental, social and governance issues, adding to an already complex mix of conflicting political priorities, new laws and changing regulatory guidance — but there are steps that companies can take to minimize risk, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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When Reincorporation Out Of Del. Isn't A Good Idea
While recent high-profile corporate moves out of Delaware have prompted discussion about the benefits of incorporation elsewhere, for many, remaining in the First State may be the right decision due to its deep body of business law, tradition of nonjury trials and other factors, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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What To Know About Insurance Coverage For Greenwashing
As the number of public and private lawsuits relating to greenwashing dramatically grows, risk managers of companies making environmental claims should look to several types of insurance for coverage in the event of a suit, say attorneys at Hunton.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.
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Series
Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.
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30 Years Later: How PSLRA Has Improved Securities Litigation
In the 30 years since the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's passage, the statute has achieved its purpose of shifting securities class actions to investors most capable of monitoring the litigation, selecting competent counsel at competitive rates and maximizing recoveries for the investor classes they represent, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.