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August 27, 2025
Ex-Jackson Walker Partner Says Romance Suit Is 'Déjà Vu'
A former Jackson Walker LLP partner accused of hiding a romance with a former Texas bankruptcy judge asked a court Tuesday to toss a group of bondholders' proposed class action over their company's Chapter 11 proceeding.
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August 27, 2025
Grubhub Agrees To Pay $7M To End Restaurants' TM Suit
Several restaurants told an Illinois federal judge they have reached an agreement with Grubhub under which the food delivery service will pay $7.1 million to resolve claims it used their trademarks without permission.
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August 27, 2025
Bone Broth Co. Inflated Protein Amounts, Suit Claims
Two consumers on Tuesday hit a bone-broth maker with a proposed class action suit in California federal court alleging that the company took advantage of recent trends for high-protein foods by mislabeling the nutrient content of its products.
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August 27, 2025
Home Depot Avoids Ex-Worker's 401(k) Forfeiture Suit
A Georgia federal judge agreed to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Home Depot misspent forfeitures from an employee 401(k) plan by using the assets to reduce employer-side contribution obligations instead of lowering fees planwide, concluding allegations failed to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.
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August 27, 2025
NC City Scraps Race-Based Board Criteria To End Bias Suit
The city of Asheville, North Carolina, has agreed to remove race qualifications from the appointment process for a volunteer advisory board, resolving racial discrimination claims brought by five residents who said their applications were rejected because they are white.
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August 27, 2025
Plantronics Investors Get Final OK For $29.5M Settlement
Investors in electronics company Plantronics have gotten final approval for their $29.5 million deal ending class action claims the company engaged in a "channel-stuffing" scheme to bolster its revenues, hurting investors when trading prices fell after it acknowledged fallout from the scheme.
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August 27, 2025
Crash Victim Hits Progressive With Claims Over 'Regular Use'
Progressive Insurance systematically denied auto insurance coverage under an exclusion relating to vehicles not directly insured but still regularly used, two Pennsylvania residents told a Pennsylvania state court in a proposed class action, saying that the insurer had no reasonable basis to do so.
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August 27, 2025
Fenwick Fights New Claims In FTX Crypto Scam MDL
Fenwick & West LLP has asked a Florida federal judge to shut down a bid by victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam to bring new claims against the firm, calling allegations that it knew about FTX's misuse of customer funds an "irresponsible falsehood."
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August 26, 2025
Google Exec. Disputes '30 Stories' Of Data Claim At Trial
A Google executive testifying Tuesday in a multibillion-dollar privacy case alleging the company illegally collected app data from 98 million consumers took issue with claims that the data at issue for just the lead plaintiffs would reach 30 stories high if printed out, while acknowledging that Google collects "considerable" data.
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August 26, 2025
Adam & Eve Beats Google Tracking Privacy Suit, For Now
A Pennsylvania federal judge tossed claims accusing Adam & Eve's parent of sharing customers' private sexual information with Google through website analytics, saying the plaintiff hasn't established an expectation of privacy in his online browsing, as he "could be freely observed by store clerks or nosy neighbors" at a physical store.
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August 26, 2025
Five Below Beats Some Investor Claims On Growth Potential
A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed some claims from a shareholder suit accusing discount retailer Five Below and its executives of overstating the company's growth prospects and its ability to curb inventory loss, finding some of the suit's challenged statements to be inactionable, among other things.
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August 26, 2025
Ex-Genentech Worker Urges 9th Circ. To Revive ERISA Suit
Counsel for a former Genentech employee urged the Ninth Circuit at a hearing Tuesday to revive his client's proposed class action alleging the biotechnology company kept unwise investment options in its 401(k) plan for years, saying the case is "vastly different" from one the lower court cited when tossing the suit.
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August 26, 2025
Capital One Beats Robocall Class Cert. Appeal At 4th Circ.
The Fourth Circuit has affirmed that consumers who accused Capital One of violating consumer protection laws by leaving prerecorded messages on their cell phones cannot be certified as a class, agreeing that it would be too difficult to ascertain members of the proposed class who weren't customers of the bank.
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August 26, 2025
Delta To Pay LA Residents $79M For Dumping Fuel On Them
Delta Air Lines Inc. and a certified class of Angelenos urged a California federal judge to vacate his summary judgment ruling and preliminarily approve their $78.75 million deal under which class counsel would receive up to $26 million to end consolidated litigation over a 2020 jet fuel dumping incident.
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August 26, 2025
AI Copyright Licensing Is Helping To Fuel Tech's Evolution
While courts wrestle with fair use questions around artificial intelligence training, legal experts say the growing number of licensing deals between tech companies and copyright owners is setting market norms for accessing the troves of content needed across rapidly evolving AI applications.
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August 26, 2025
PE Firm Escapes Patients' Anesthesia Antitrust Claims
A Texas federal court tossed claims against Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe from a proposed class of patients accusing the private equity firm of monopolizing the anesthesiology market through a series of acquisitions, but let claims against a company it formed proceed.
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August 26, 2025
NBA's Suns Seek Sanctions Over Alleged Fake Case Citations
Operators of the NBA's Phoenix Suns asked the court Tuesday to impose sanctions on counsel representing a woman suing the organization for workplace sexual harassment, saying the woman's counsel cited made-up cases and quotes in their filings at least 16 times.
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August 26, 2025
Ohio Cannabis Co. Accused Of Leaking Patient Data
An Ohio company that connects patients with physicians to secure medical marijuana cards is accused in a new federal proposed class action of making public the personal information of its clients and others.
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August 26, 2025
Anthropic, Authors Reach Deal In AI Copyright Cases
Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic said Tuesday it has inked a deal to end copyright litigation from authors who allege that their works were illegally obtained to train the company's large language model, Claude.
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August 26, 2025
4th Circ. Revokes Class Cert. In Progressive Car Valuation Suit
The Fourth Circuit reversed a Progressive Insurance policyholder's class certification win over certain adjustments the insurer makes when calculating the actual cash value of a totaled vehicle, saying that determining whether Progressive breached each insured's policy is a "highly individualized assessment."
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August 26, 2025
X Corp. Settles WARN Act Suit With Worker Terminated In 2022
A former X Corp. employee has settled its lawsuit alleging that he wasn't given a heads-up before the company conducted mass layoffs in 2022Â following Elon Musk's takeover, prompting a California federal judge to conditionally dismiss the case on Monday, two weeks before trial had been set to begin.
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August 26, 2025
Cert. In Pepperidge BIPA Action Sunk Over Counsel Conflict
An Illinois appellate panel on Monday reversed a trial court's order certifying a class of Pepperidge Farm workers bringing biometric privacy claims, saying it improperly allowed the law firm of the lead plaintiff's daughter to remain as class counsel.
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August 26, 2025
3rd Circ. Says Tossing Undated Mail Votes Is Unconstitutional
The Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that Pennsylvania discarding mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates violates voters' constitutional rights, reasoning that preventing the loss of votes outweighed any claimed benefits of enforcing the state's date requirement.
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August 26, 2025
NY Judge In NFL Case May Hold No-Show Atty In Contempt
The Manhattan federal judge presiding over a high-profile racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL said Tuesday she will initiate a contempt proceeding against a California lawyer who failed to appear to further explain an erroneous filing that stated he could practice in New York.
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August 26, 2025
Cigna Strikes ERISA Ghost Network Suit Settlement Deal
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. has agreed to settle a proposed class action alleging the health plan administrator violated federal benefits law by advertising providers as in-network who were out-of-network to participants in employer-sponsored health benefit plans that Cigna administered, according to filings in Illinois federal court.
Expert Analysis
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Notable Q1 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
The first quarter of 2025 was filled with the refinement of old theories in the property and casualty space, including in vehicle valuation, time to seek appraisal and materials depreciation, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.
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Power To The Paralegals: The Value Of Unified State Licensing
Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.
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AI Use In Class Actions Comes With Risks And Rewards
The use of artificial intelligence in class actions holds promise for helping to analyze complex evidence, but attorneys and experts must understand how to use it correctly, and how to explain it clearly, say Simone Jones and Eric Mattson at Sidley and Anna Shakotko at Cornerstone Research.
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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master
As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.
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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future
Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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Addressing Antitrust Scrutiny Over AI-Powered Pricing Tools
Amid multiple recent civil complaints alleging antitrust violations by providers and users of algorithmic pricing tools, such as RealPage and Yardi, digital-era measures should feature prominently in corporate compliance programs, including documentation of pro-competitive benefits and when to use disclosures, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Lessons From Pa. Wiretapping Class Action Dismissal
A recent wiretapping class action in Pennsylvania federal court resulting in the dispositive dismissal of the action provides key insights on how online notice and consent can be leveraged to directly address and mitigate legal risks and class action liability exposure, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.
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Influencer Campaign Lawsuits Signal New Endorsement Risks
Recent class actions allege that companies' influencer campaigns violate the Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides and various state laws, but it's not clear whether the failure to comply can sustain these lawsuits, or whether the plaintiffs' creative theory of damages will hold up to scrutiny, says Gonzalo Mon at Kelley Drye.
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Calif. Antitrust Laws May Turn More Zealous Than US Regs
California is poised in the next 18 months to significantly expand its antitrust laws, broadening the scope of liability and creating a premerger review process that could be more expansive than review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, say attorneys at Munger Tolles.
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Digesting A 2nd Circ. Ruling On Food Delivery App Arbitration
The Second Circuit recently rejected Grubhub's attempt to arbitrate price-fixing claims, while allowing Uber Eats to do so, reinforcing that even broad arbitration clauses must connect to the underlying dispute and suggesting that terms of service litigation may center on websites' design and content, say attorneys at Greenspoon Marder.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work
Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.
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How Cos. Can Mitigate Increasing Microplastics Liability Risk
Amid rising scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe of microplastics' impact on health and the growing threat of litigation against consumer product and food and beverage manufacturers, companies can limit liability through compliance with labeling laws, careful contract management and other practices, say attorneys at Rogers Joseph.