Class Action

  • March 11, 2025

    Digimarc Faces Investor Suit Over Subscription Plunge

    Digital watermarking technology company Digimarc Corp. and two of its executives face a proposed investor class action alleging that the company failed to warn investors that its recurring revenue would take a significant hit after one of its major customers had its contract expire in June.

  • March 11, 2025

    'Paucity' Of Proof Thwarts NC State Law Claims In Gardasil MDL

    A North Carolina federal judge has found that Merck did not violate state law by not including warnings about its Human Papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil, saying there was a "paucity" of evidence that the vaccines cause certain injuries to recipients.

  • March 11, 2025

    Origin Brass Face Investor Suit Over Factory Delay Disclosure

    Executives and directors of sustainable chemical manufacturer Origin Materials have been hit with a shareholder's derivative suit alleging that they concealed a three-year construction delay affecting a production facility the company was building that increased company costs and altered relationships with its customers, including Pepsi.

  • March 11, 2025

    Innodata Slams 'AI Washing' Shareholder Suit As Flimsy

    Investors in data engineering company Innodata Inc. "essentially cut and pasted" claims from a short-seller's report on the company into their proposed class action accusing the company of "AI washing," despite the company's recovery from a related trading price dip, the company has argued.

  • March 11, 2025

    Ill. Transpo Applicant's GIPA Claim Isn't Blocked, Judge Says

    A transportation service applicant can proceed with allegations that he was illegally required to divulge his family medical history during a pre-employment physical since they don't conflict with federal driver safety regulations, an Illinois federal judge has ruled. 

  • March 11, 2025

    Fla. Court Urged To Remove Cigna Claims Processor In MDL

    Cigna Healthcare on Tuesday urged a Florida federal court to remove a settlement claims processor in a long-running multidistrict litigation case involving alleged underpaid insurance reimbursements to medical providers, telling a judge that the company has misspent more than $25 million in funds meant for members of a class action within the MDL.

  • March 11, 2025

    Wash. Pharmacy Strikes $600k Class Deal In Data Breach Suit

    An Evergreen State pharmacy has agreed to a $600,000 class deal to end a lawsuit over a 2023 cyberattack that allegedly exposed the personal information of thousands of current and former customers and employees, according to recent filings in Washington federal court.

  • March 11, 2025

    J&J Tells 3rd Circ. No Price Impact In Talc Concealment Suit

    Johnson & Johnson urged the Third Circuit on Tuesday to undo class certification of investor claims that the company inflated its stock price by failing to disclose cancer risks associated with its talcum powder products, arguing that the investors could not have relied upon its alleged misrepresentations because there was no impact on the stock market's price.

  • March 11, 2025

    NJ Residents Push To Repackage Contaminated Water Claims

    Residents of National Park, New Jersey, asked a state appellate court panel for permission to revive and amend their proposed class claims over contaminated water, arguing Tuesday that the allegations are a matter for tort law, not contract law.

  • March 11, 2025

    Zydus Cuts Deal With States, Tribes In Opioid Nuisance Suit

    Zydus Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reached a deal in principle with states and Native American tribes that should quash claims related to the company's alleged role in exasperating the opioid crisis.

  • March 11, 2025

    Hospital Orgs. Say MultiPlan Must Not Duck Price-Fix Claims

    Hundreds of American hospitals are "on the brink of collapse" and letting MultiPlan and a host of insurers who have been accused of conspiring to underpay out-of-network providers off the hook will not improve matters, two groups that represent thousands of hospitals have told the court.

  • March 11, 2025

    Weapons Check Co. Sued In Del. After Hyped Reports, Probes

    A shareholder of weapons screening system developer Evolv Technologies fired off a derivative suit on the company's behalf in Delaware's Court of Chancery late Monday, seeking recovery of damages arising from allegedly hyped marketing of flawed, artificial intelligence-enabled systems that failed to meet threat detection claims.

  • March 11, 2025

    Authors Seek Win On Meta AI Direct Infringement Claims

    A group of award-winning authors urged a California federal judge to grant them a win on claims Meta directly infringed their copyrights by using databases of pirated works to train its "Llama" artificial-intelligence tool, arguing Meta infringed "massive" amounts of protected material, including books written by Supreme Court justices.

  • March 11, 2025

    Vegan Co. Huel Hit With Class Action Over Quality Of Protein

    Vegan meal and supplement company Huel Ltd. misled consumers into thinking its protein powders were made with high-quality protein when in reality it's made with inferior ingredients that can't be digested as easily, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court by a health-minded San Jose resident.

  • March 11, 2025

    Zillow Investors Urge 9th Circ. To Uphold Class Certification

    A class of Zillow Group Inc. investors told the Ninth Circuit to reject the property listing company's bid to overturn the class certification of their suit accusing the company of making misleading statements about its home-flipping program and causing stock prices to drop.

  • March 11, 2025

    No Joke, Paramount's $11M Comic Royalty Deal Gets Prelim OK

    A New York federal judge gave a preliminary approval Tuesday to a settlement agreement in a putative class action that would see Paramount Global and the entity behind Comedy Central pay $11 million to 120 comedians to resolve allegations the media companies wrongly withheld royalty payments. 

  • March 11, 2025

    Post Hit With False Ad Suit Over Rachael Ray Brand Pet Food

    Post sells celebrity chef Rachael Ray's Nutrish brand of pet foods that are falsely labeled as being "natural" with "no artificial preservatives" despite containing citric acid, which is derived from heavy chemical processing, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court Monday.

  • March 11, 2025

    Dairy Farmers File Class Claims Over 'Defective' Auto-Milker

    Three farming technology companies were hit with proposed class claims in Pennsylvania state court by farmers alleging they deceptively marketed a defective automatic milking system that fell below performance standards, leading to the harm or death of cows in some cases.

  • March 11, 2025

    Albertsons, Safeway Hit With New Spam-Text Suit In Wash.

    Albertsons Companies Inc. and Safeway Inc. are facing a proposed class action filed by a Washington resident who accuses the supermarket chains of sending unsolicited text message advertisements in violation of state consumer protection laws.

  • March 11, 2025

    A Brief Look At Delaware's Divisive Corporate Law Bill

    Delaware state Senate Bill 21, up for a Judiciary Committee vote on Wednesday, overturns some provisions of landmark state Supreme Court rulings, from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide Corp. in 2014 to In re Match Group a decade later, which call for plaintiff-friendly entire fairness review for controller transactions.

  • March 11, 2025

    California Entities Escape State Judge's Underpayment Suit

    A California state judge threw out some claims in a proposed class action from a judge who alleges she was underpaid the last several years, saying the state's retirement agency and its controller showed they didn't have much authority over judges' pay.

  • March 10, 2025

    Whole Foods Workers Can't Have Class Cert. In Bonus Suit

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge Monday refused to certify a class of past and present Whole Foods employees who accuse the grocery chain of gaming its employee bonus program, saying there are too many individualized questions to resolve the plaintiffs' claims on a classwide basis.

  • March 10, 2025

    Dynata Would 'Hopefully' Have Paid Bill, Staffing Co. Says

    The CEO of a staffing company told an attorney for Dynata LLC that it has nobody to blame but itself for a class action accusing Dynata of misclassifying workers' employment status, adding during a trial in Texas state court that the company can't claim breach of contract to justify withholding $8 million to the staffing company.

  • March 10, 2025

    Illinois Judge Floats Sanctions In Akorn Mootness Fee Fight

    An Illinois federal judge signaled Tuesday that he was open to sanctions including a mandatory violation disclosure against plaintiffs' counsel as he continues navigating a challenge to so-called mootness fees paid to settle and dismiss allegedly baseless Akorn Inc. merger disclosure suits. 

  • March 10, 2025

    Kyocera AVX Defeats Suit Over 2023 Data Breach

    A South Carolina federal judge has freed Kyocera AVX from a proposed class action that accused the electronic components manufacturer of failing to protect more than 39,000 employees' sensitive personal information in a 2023 cyber attack, saying former employees failed to allege a substantial risk of fraud or identity theft.

Expert Analysis

  • The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape

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    While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation

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    As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering

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    Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.

  • Parsing 3rd Circ. Ruling On Cannabis, Employee Private Suits

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    The Third Circuit recently upheld a decision that individuals don't have a private right of action for alleged violations of New Jersey's Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act, but employers should stay informed as the court encouraged the state Legislature to amend the law, say attorneys at Mandelbaum Barrett.

  • Series

    Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations

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    In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.

  • Justices Likely To Stay In ERISA's Bounds On Pleadings

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    The arguments in Cunningham v. Cornell showed the U.S. Supreme Court's willingness to resolve a circuit split regarding Employee Retirement Income Security Act pleading standards by staying within ERISA's confines, while instructing courts regarding what must be pled to survive a motion to dismiss, says Ryan Curtis at Fennemore Craig.

  • Series

    Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.

  • High Court Could Further Limit Deference With TCPA Fax Case

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    The Supreme Court's decision to hear McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, a case involving alleged junk faxes that centers whether district courts are bound by Federal Communications Commission rules, offers the court a chance to possibly further limit the judicial deference afforded to federal agency interpretations of statutes, says Samantha Duke at Rumberger Kirk.

  • 5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates

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    In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: How MDLs Fared In 2024

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    A significant highlight of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's practice during 2024 was the increase in the percentage of new MDL petitions granted by the panel, with 25 granted and only eight denied — one of the highest grant rates in years, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024

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    Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.

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