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Class Action

  • May 28, 2025

    Wellness App User Must Arbitrate Video Data-Sharing Suit

    A California federal judge has shipped to arbitration a proposed class action accusing the operators of the meditation app Balance of unlawfully sharing subscribers' video-viewing data and other personal information with a third-party software provider, finding that the user leading the suit had agreed to arbitrate his claims when signing up for the service. 

  • May 28, 2025

    Flooring Co. Faces Trafficking, Forced Labor Suit In Ga.

    An Oregon-based flooring manufacturer has been sued in Georgia federal court by a group of Chinese nationals who allege they were brought to the U.S. to work at a flooring manufacturing facility in Cartersville, Georgia, then exploited, underpaid and subjected to forced labor.

  • May 28, 2025

    'Zero Effort': Judge Rips Feds' Retrieval Of Asylum-Seeker

    A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday slammed the Trump administration for showing "zero effort" to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker sent to a Salvadoran prison and for having "utterly disregarded" an order for updates on its efforts.

  • May 28, 2025

    Duke Energy Settles Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach

    Duke Energy has reached a deal in a proposed class action alleging that customers' sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach last year, according to a joint notice the parties filed in North Carolina federal court.

  • May 28, 2025

    Share Control Key To Archegos Suits, 2nd Circ. Suggests

    Whether a raft of lawsuits can be restored against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC may depend in part on how the law defines and treats a controlling shareholder, a panel of the Second Circuit suggested Wednesday as a group of investors tried to save their securities fraud claims arising from the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP.

  • May 28, 2025

    Justices Seek SG's Take On Falun Gong Case Against Cisco

    The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the solicitor general to weigh in on an Alien Tort Statute suit revived by the Ninth Circuit and lodged by a class of Falun Gong practitioners alleging that Cisco Systems aided in the Chinese government's crackdown on the religious movement.

  • May 28, 2025

    Class Suit Against AI Drugmaker Back On After Mediation Fails

    After the parties failed to settle through mediation, a Connecticut federal judge has unpaused the latest iteration of a proposed class action accusing artificial intelligence-driven drugmaker BioXcel Therapeutics Inc. of false and misleading statements about U.S. Food and Drug Administration compliance issues surrounding a dementia drug.

  • May 28, 2025

    DOL Tells 5th Circ. It Will Craft New ESG Rule For 401(k) Plans

    The U.S. Department of Labor told the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday that it will launch new rulemaking and move "as expeditiously as possible" to replace Biden administration regulations on whether fiduciaries can consider issues like climate change and social justice when choosing retirement plan investments.

  • May 28, 2025

    Feds Urge Supreme Court To Let 10th Circ. PBM Ruling Stand

    The federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up the state of Oklahoma's challenge to a Tenth Circuit decision that found parts of a law regulating pharmacy benefit managers were preempted by federal benefits and healthcare laws, arguing the case doesn't warrant further review from the justices.

  • May 28, 2025

    Mallinckrodt Investors Get Initial OK For $5.5M Settlement

    Investors of drugmaker Mallinckrodt received preliminary approval of their $5.5 million settlement with two executives and a director of the company Wednesday, ending the investors' claims they were misled into believing Mallinckrodt had recovered from bankruptcy and would make a $200 million payment to opioid claimants.

  • May 28, 2025

    Fla. Ambulance Co. Must Make Missed Payments In OT Deal

    An ambulance service will have to shell out the remaining $42,500 it owes to a group of emergency medical technicians and paramedics to settle their overtime after having missed payment deadlines several times, a Florida federal court ordered Wednesday.

  • May 28, 2025

    Vail Ski Instructors Can't Expand Collective In Wage Suit

    Snow sport instructors cannot revisit previous court orders denying class treatment in their wage and hour lawsuit against Vail Resorts, a Colorado federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the case will proceed in its current form as a collective action.

  • May 28, 2025

    Berkshire Hathaway RV Maker Wants End To Defect Suit

    A Berkshire Hathaway company is urging a Montana federal court to throw out the last remaining claims in a suit alleging it made and sold RVs with dangerous wiring defects, saying the plaintiff hasn't shown any evidence of actual damage or that the company was aware of any defects before he bought it.

  • May 28, 2025

    Anesthesiology Co. Urges Dismissal Of Antitrust Class Action

    U.S. Anesthesia Partners told a Houston judge that a patient leading a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the Texas anesthesia market doesn't have a valid claim because his insurance company chose how much he paid for services.

  • May 28, 2025

    China Can't Duck PPE Hoarding Claims By Fla. Medical Pros

    A Florida federal judge won't fully dismiss claims from a group of medical professionals alleging that China, through a New Jersey company, hoarded personal protective equipment to create a monopoly at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding the allegations fall within the commercial activity exception to sovereign immunity.

  • May 28, 2025

    Coca-Cola Sued Over '100% Natural Flavors' In Sprite, Fanta

    The Coca-Cola Co. deceptively labels its Sprite and Fanta brands of sodas as being made with "100% natural flavors" despite that they contain synthetic sweetener ingredients and additives like citric acid and aspartame, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

  • May 28, 2025

    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Cohen Milstein's Benjamin Brown

    Benjamin D. Brown of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped cement his reputation as a respected thought leader in his field last year when he wrapped up multiple career-defining cases, including a landmark $375 million settlement in a wage suppression class action brought against Ultimate Fighting Championship, earning him a place among Law360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

  • May 28, 2025

    Class Counsel Get $6M Fees In Corteva Benefits Info Suit

    Attorneys handling a retirement benefits class action against chemical companies Corteva Inc. and DuPont have been awarded approximately $6 million in fees and just over $389,000 to cover litigation costs, according to a Pennsylvania federal judge's order.

  • May 28, 2025

    Skadden Lands Kirkland Trial Ace In Chicago

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP trial lawyer as a partner in its Chicago office.

  • May 28, 2025

    Orlando Fire Dept. Must Face District Chiefs' Unpaid OT Suit

    High-ranking district chiefs cannot claim they are shielded from overtime pay exemptions because they are first responders, a Florida federal judge ruled, but the Orlando Fire Department has not shown that it was in the clear to deny them the premium wages.

  • May 27, 2025

    Anthropic Declaration Partly Stricken Over AI Hallucination

    A California federal magistrate judge has partially stricken an expert report filed by Anthropic in copyright infringement litigation that cited a nonexistent study — an error created by the artificial intelligence company's own Claude AI tool — calling the issue "serious," but "not quite so grave as it first appeared."

  • May 27, 2025

    Retailer To Face Privacy Suit Instead Of Arbitration Claims

    More than 2,400 Janie & Jack website visitors pursuing arbitration claims over the children clothing retailer's allegedly unlawful online tracking practices have agreed to drop these individual grievances and instead lodge a single proposed class action to press their allegations, according to a notice filed in California federal court. 

  • May 27, 2025

    Proterra Investors Push For Final OK Of $29M Settlement

    Proterra Inc. investors have asked a California federal court to sign off on a $29 million deal resolving allegations that the bankrupt electric-vehicle maker's executives misled them about liquidity issues, according to a motion for final approval of the settlement filed Tuesday.

  • May 27, 2025

    Drone Co. Overhyped Army Contract Prospects, Investor Says

    Drone maker Red Cat Holdings Inc. faced a proposed investor class action alleging it misled investors about its expectations for capitalizing on a prospective U.S. Army contract, hurting shareholders as markets reacted to adverse news about the contract and the company's potential revenue from the deal.

  • May 27, 2025

    Bluebird Bio Beats Investor Suit Over FDA Cancer Warning

    Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Bluebird Bio Inc. has beaten a shareholder suit accusing it of misleading investors about the likelihood of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision requiring a "black box warning" on one of its products due to the cancer risk it posed.

Expert Analysis

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    Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    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.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: Ballpark Lessons For MDLs

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    The baseball offseason has provided some time to ponder how multidistrict litigation life resembles the national pastime, including with respect to home-field advantage, major television markets and setting records, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

  • Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use

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    A recent U.S. Justice Department amicus brief arguing that a Nevada federal judge wrongly focused on the nonbinding aspect of software company Cendyn Group's pricing algorithm underscores the growing challenge of determining when, if ever, pricing algorithms are legal, say attorneys at Rule Garza.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

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    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.

  • 7th Circ. Travel Time Ruling Has Far-Reaching Implications

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    In a case of first impression, the Seventh Circuit’s recent holding in Walters v. Professional Labor Group will have significant implications for employers that must now provide travel time compensation for employees on overnight assignments away from home, says Anthony Sbardellati at Akerman.

  • 2 Cases Show DAOs May Face Increasing Legal Scrutiny

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    Two ongoing cases that recently survived motions to dismiss in California federal courts concerning Compound DAO and Lido DAO threaten to expand the potential liability for activity attributed to decentralized autonomous organizations — and to indirectly create liability for their participants, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Args In 2 High Court Cases May Foretell Clarity For Employers

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    Mary Anna Brand at Maynard Nexsen examines possible employment implications of two cases argued before the Supreme Court this fall, including a higher bar for justifying employees as overtime exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and earlier grants of prevailing party status for employee-plaintiffs seeking attorney fees.

  • Calif. Ruling May Shield Public Employers From Labor Claims

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    In Stone v. Alameda Health System, the California Supreme Court recently exempted a county hospital from state-mandated rest breaks and the Private Attorneys General Act, granting government employers a robust new bulwark against other labor statutes by undermining an established doctrine for determining if a law applies to public entities, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Service Providers Must Mitigate 'Secondary Target' Risks

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    A lawsuit recently filed in an Illinois federal court against marketing agency Publicis over its work for opioid manufacturers highlights an uptick in litigation against professional service providers hired by clients that engaged in alleged misconduct — so potential targets of such suits should be sure to conduct proper risk analysis and mitigation, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • 2nd Circ. AmTrust Decision Shows Audit Reports Still Matter

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    Though the Second Circuit eventually found on reconsidering a case over the high-profile accounting meltdown at AmTrust that audit reports are material to investors, its previous contrary holding highlights the seriousness of the ongoing crisis of confidence in the audit report, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.

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    Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.

  • Nvidia Supreme Court Case May Not Make Big Splash

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    The skeptical tenor of the justices' questioning at oral argument in Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder suggests that the case is unlikely to alter the motion to dismiss pleading standard in securities class actions, as some had feared, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Defense Insights As PFAS Consumer Product Claims Rise

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    Amid the recent proliferation of lawsuits seeking damages for failure to disclose the presence of PFAS in consumer products, manufacturers, distributors and consumer product companies should follow the science and consider a significant flaw in many of the filings, say attorneys at Farella Braun.

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    Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.

  • How D&O Coverage Can Aid Against Increased AI Scrutiny

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    The recent increase in regulatory enforcement and securities class actions stemming from corporate use of artificial intelligence should prompt companies to ensure that their directors and officers liability insurance coverage is appropriately tailored to AI-related risks, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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