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March 11, 2025
Kenvue Unit Can't Nix BIPA Suit Over Neutrogena Skin360 App
A Kenvue unit can't escape a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully stores facial scans of people who use its Neutrogena Skin360 tool in violation of Illinois' biometric privacy statute, after a New Jersey federal judge said those users are not "patient[s] in a healthcare setting" under the statute's healthcare exemption.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
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.
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
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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Royal Canin Ruling Won't Transform Removal Jurisdiction
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Royal Canin USA v. Wullschleger means that federal district courts must now remand whenever an amended complaint excises grounds for federal jurisdiction — but given existing litigation strategy and case law trends, this may ultimately preserve, rather than alter, the status quo, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: Nov. And Dec. Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving takings clause violations, breach of contract with banks, life insurance policies, employment and automobile defects.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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Key Trends In PFAS Regulation And Litigation For 2025
The critical policy milestones for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances expected in 2025 will not only shape the trajectory of PFAS regulation, but also set key precedents for environmental accountability, potentially reshaping the corporate approach to these "forever chemicals" for decades to come, say attorneys at MG+M.
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Algorithm Price-Fixing Ruling May Lower Antitrust Claims Bar
A Washington federal court's refusal to dismiss Duffy v. Yardi Systems, an antitrust case over rent prices allegedly inflated by revenue management software, creates an apparent split in the lower courts over how to assess such claims, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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UPS Penalty Demonstrates Goodwill Impairment Red Flags
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $45 million penalty against UPS for withholding reports of goodwill impairment should warn investors to watch for the telltale signs of companies inflating their worth by delaying tests that would reveal similar declines in the value of intangible assets, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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Courts Must Stick To The Science On Digital Addiction Claims
A number of pending personal injury and product liability lawsuits allege that plaintiffs have developed behavioral addictions to the use of social media and video games — but this is not yet recognized by relevant authorities as an addiction, so courts must carefully scrutinize such claims, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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A Look At Sweepstakes Casinos' Legal Issues In Fla., Beyond
Scheduled for trial in Florida federal court this fall, the VGW sweepstakes case underscores the growing urgency for gambling states to clarify and enforce their laws in response to emerging online gaming models, as the expansion of sweepstakes casinos challenges traditional interpretations of gambling regulations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling
Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.
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Issues To Watch In 2025's ERISA Litigation Landscape
Whether 2024’s uptick in new Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases will continue this year will likely depend on federal courts’ resolution of several issues, including those related to excessive fees, defined contribution plan forfeitures, and pleading standards for ERISA-prohibited transaction claims, say attorneys at Groom Law.