Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Retail & E-Commerce
-
February 21, 2025
CFPB's $8 Late Fee Rule On Ropes As Banks Move In For Kill
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade groups have urged a Texas federal judge to strike down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $8 credit card late fee rule once and for all, saying, among other things, that the CFPB is itself a "veritable issue-spotter of constitutional law violations."
-
February 21, 2025
Fla. Worker's Wage Suit Against Dillard's Sent To Arbitration
A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered Dillard's and a former employee to resolve claims that the company shorted workers on minimum and overtime wages out of court after granting an unopposed motion to compel arbitration and stay proceedings in a proposed collective action lawsuit.
-
February 21, 2025
Dispute Over FDA Menthol Cigarette Ban Paused Until August
A California federal judge has agreed to pause a lawsuit alleging that federal health regulators slow-walked implementing a ban on menthol cigarettes while new leadership assumes control of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
-
February 21, 2025
'Unsupported Conclusions' Doom Ad App Suit Against Google
A California federal judge has permanently tossed an antitrust suit accusing Google of kicking a now-defunct advertising app maker out of the Play Store in order to squelch a potential digital advertising rival, finding that the act alone was not enough to show harm to the market from the alleged monopolization.
-
February 21, 2025
Pot Co. Workers Sue Over Lack Of Notice For Mass Layoffs
A group of workers laid off by a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary company sued their former employer in federal court Friday, alleging that it failed to give required notice before instituting a mass layoff.
-
February 21, 2025
Morgan Lewis Adds Partner To Insurance Recovery Practice
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced that it has added a new partner and insurance expert in its Chicago office, in a move to bolster the firm's insurance recovery and dispute resolution capabilities for corporate policyholder clients.
-
February 21, 2025
Stop & Shop, Ex-Manager Agree To End Long COVID Suit
A Connecticut federal judge on Friday agreed to dismiss a former Stop & Shop manager's lawsuit accusing the supermarket chain of firing him for taking medical leave due to long COVID-19 symptoms, one day after the parties said they wished to end litigation.
-
February 21, 2025
Kroger Workers' $21M Pay System Outage Deal Gets First Nod
An Ohio federal judge preliminarily approved a $21 million deal between The Kroger Co. and a proposed class of around 47,000 workers who accused it of missing paychecks and making inaccurate deductions to their wages after it switched payroll systems.
-
February 21, 2025
Freshfields Guides Celsius On $1.8B Alani Energy Brand Buy
Freshfields US LLP is advising Celsius Holdings Inc. on a new agreement to acquire Alani Nutrition for $1.8 billion, in a push from one of the leading U.S. energy drink companies to bolster its appeal to women and younger consumers.
-
February 20, 2025
Florida Hits Target With New Suit Over Pride Month Merch
The state of Florida's investment management body Thursday became the latest to sue Target Corp. over its Pride-themed merchandise, saying the retail giant "betrayed" investors with its "exceptionally offensive" LGBTQ marketing campaign and product lines.
-
February 20, 2025
Chinese App Temu Wants To Arbitrate Minors' Privacy Claims
Chinese bargain-shopping app Temu has asked a New York federal judge to send to arbitration a proposed class action claiming it misuses users' data, saying an arbitrator must decide any challenges to the terms of a user agreement even though some named class members are minors.
-
February 20, 2025
Warby Parker Hit With $1.5M Fine After HHS Breach Probe
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it has imposed a $1.5 million fine on Warby Parker Inc. following a cyberattack on the eyewear manufacturer's website that exposed the protected health information of nearly 200,000 customers.
-
February 20, 2025
3rd Circ. Rejects Appeal In Dog Magnet Design Spat
The Third Circuit on Thursday rejected an appeal in a case in which two businesses accused each other of stealing designs for pet-themed car magnets, saying that, because there is no final judgment in the case, one of the companies can't challenge the lower court's refusal to issue a final judgment.
-
February 20, 2025
DOJ Keeps Focus In Agri Stats Case Off Specific Data
A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to provide Agri Stats a line-by-line recitation of particular problematic data fields in the company's protein industry reports, finding the agency's explanations about how those reports can facilitate price-fixing are "adequately responsive."
-
February 20, 2025
Amazon Says FTC 'Stonewalled' Discovery In Antitrust Case
The Federal Trade Commission is relying on "boilerplate objections and untenable hyper-technicalities" to delay discovery in its antitrust suit against Amazon, the e-commerce giant said in a new motion in Seattle federal court, seeking to force the agency to hand over information about its case.
-
February 20, 2025
Publix Accused Of Overcharging Discounted Items In Fla. Suit
A customer has brought a proposed federal class-action lawsuit in Florida federal court against Publix Super Markets Inc. over alleged deceptive trade practices, saying the grocery store's point-of-sale system intentionally charged more for discounted items sold by weight.
-
February 20, 2025
Nootropics Co. Can't Push Nurse's Suit To Arbitration
Makers of the Thesis brand of supplements can't push into arbitration a former U.S. Army nurse's lawsuit claiming its nootropics, sometimes called "smart drugs," secretly contained amphetamines, which caused her to fail a drug test and be booted from the military, a Washington federal judge has ruled.
-
February 20, 2025
Worker Says Wilson Sports Co. Firing Tied To Paternity Leave
A former Wilson Sporting Goods Co. employee has filed a Minnesota federal lawsuit accusing the company of firing him for taking parental leave in violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
-
February 20, 2025
Kim Kardashian's Skims Hit With ADA Lawsuit
A proposed class action filed Thursday in Illinois federal court accuses Skims.com, a shapewear retailer founded by reality star Kim Kardashian, of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act with "significant access barriers" that make it "difficult if not impossible" for visually impaired customers to navigate the website.
-
February 20, 2025
11th Circ. Asked To Reinstate FCC's One-To-One Consent Rule
A pro-consumer group urged the Eleventh Circuit to revisit a ruling last month that overturned the Federal Communications Commission's requirement that individual businesses obtain each consumer's consent to contact them through comparison shopping sites.
-
February 20, 2025
Pot Co. Exec Says He Was Fired For Reporting Antisemitism
A Jewish former executive for Verano Holdings Corp. and Verano Arizona Inc. is suing the companies in federal court, alleging he was discriminated against and fired for reporting antisemitism and "flippant comments about Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust."
-
February 20, 2025
Musk's X Seeks Cash At $44B Valuation, Plus More Rumors
Elon Musk is seeking to raise money for his social media platform X at a $44 billion valuation — the same price he paid to buy the site in 2022 — while BP is considering selling its Castrol lubricants unit for $10 billion and KKR could inject $5 billion into ailing British utility Thames Water. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.
-
February 19, 2025
Walgreens Says $1B COVID Testing Award Must Be Nixed
Walgreens is urging a Delaware federal judge to rethink his decision enforcing a $987 million arbitral award to a lab testing and diagnostics company in a dispute over COVID-19 tests, arguing Tuesday that he ignored that the arbitrator "invented" language in the contract to arrive at his conclusion.
-
February 19, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Amazon In Teri Woods Publishing Dispute
A unanimous Second Circuit panel backed a lower court's decision to dismiss Teri Woods Publishing's copyright and contract claims against Audible and other audiobook distributors on Wednesday, holding that the parties' licensing agreement allowed them to distribute the publisher's works through their subscription-based streaming services.
-
February 19, 2025
Lululemon Gets 'Greenwashing' Ads Suit Tossed
Lululemon Athletica Inc. has escaped a proposed class action accusing it of misleading the public into thinking the company is environmentally friendly, after a Florida federal judge tossed the suit because the consumers couldn't make a price-premium connection.
Expert Analysis
-
Reviewing 2024's State Consumer Privacy Law Enforcement
While we are still in the infancy of state consumer privacy laws, a review of enforcement activity this year suggests substantial overlaps in regulatory priorities across the most active states and gives insight into the likely paths of future enforcement, says Thomas Nolan at Quinn Emanuel.
-
Preparing For The New Restrictions On Investment Into China
In light of a new regulatory program governing U.S. investments in China-related technology companies of national security concern, investors should keep several considerations in mind, including the rules' effect on existing and new investments, compliance hurdles, and penalties for noncompliance ahead of the rules' January implementation, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.
-
Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
-
Netflix Dispute May Alter 'Source' In TM Fair-Use Analysis
The Ninth Circuit’s upcoming decision in Hara v. Netflix, about what it means to be source-identifying, could change how the Rogers defense protects expressive works that utilize trademarks in a creative fashion, says Sara Gold at Gold IP.
-
What Bisphenol S Prop 65 Listing Will Mean For Industry
The imminent addition of bisphenol S — a chemical used in millions of products — to California's Proposition 65 list will have sweeping compliance and litigation implications for companies in the retail, food and beverage, paper, manufacturing and personal care product industries, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
-
Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
-
Tracking The Uncertainty Of The FTC's Negative Option Rule
The fate of the Federal Trade Commission's final rule requiring businesses that utilize negative options to provide consumers with a simple cancellation method remains in limbo as it faces multiple legal challenges and the threat of possible congressional action looms, say attorneys at Manatt.
-
Antitrust in Retail: Handbag Ruling Won't Go Out Of Fashion
Although a New York federal court’s recent decision to enjoin a proposed $8.5 billion merger between the owners of Michael Kors and Coach applied noncontroversial antitrust interpretations, several notable aspects of the opinion stand out as likely candidates for further discussion in future merger litigation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
-
Series
Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
-
What New Calif. Law Means For Cannabis Lounges
With a recently enacted California law authorizing licensed cannabis retailers and microbusinesses to prepare and sell noncannabis food and beverages, the door opens for a more sustainable business model — but challenges related to costs and liability remain, says Tracy Gallegos at Duane Morris.
-
Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
-
A Legal Perspective On NYC's Retail Real Estate Evolution
As New York City's retail market begins to show signs of resilience after the challenges of recent years, landlords must be cognizant of legal implications from shifting trends toward shorter-term leases and pop-up stores, says Andrea Gendel at Pryor Cashman.
-
The Fashion Industry Should Prep Now For State PFAS Bans
New York and California have each passed legislation regulating PFAS in apparel and other textiles, so retailers should consult with manufacturers and suppliers and obtain the requisite certification documents as soon as possible to avoid disruptions in supply chains, say attorneys at Venable.
-
How Boards And Officers Should Prep For New Trump Admin
In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs and mass deportation campaign, company officers and board members should pursue proactive, comprehensive contingency planning to not only advance the best interests of the companies they serve, but to also properly exercise their fiduciary duty of care, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
-
Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence
The Bureau of Industry and Security’s recent removal of a Canadian surveillance provider from its export blacklist, after just eight months, illustrates the importance of integrating human rights due diligence into the vetting process by asking a few targeted questions, say attorneys at Cravath.