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April 29, 2025
FTC Defends John Deere Right-To-Repair Suit
Farm machinery-maker Deere & Co. is trying to get out of an FTC enforcement action using the same arguments that didn't help it escape multidistrict litigation accusing the company of breaking antitrust laws by restricting access to repair services, the government says.
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April 29, 2025
10th Circ. Won't Touch Colo. Deportation Stay For Now
A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday declined to set aside a Colorado judge's temporary halt on the removal of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act while the Trump administration challenges the order, because the government hasn't shown its interests would be seriously harmed otherwise.
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April 29, 2025
Justices Wary Of Issuing 'Advisory' Ruling In Class Cert. Row
The U.S. Supreme Court's latest attempt to address a pressing question about class certification standards may be doomed by a procedural hiccup, with a majority of justices expressing concern Tuesday that they didn't have the authority to wade into a dispute over approval of a class that contains uninjured members.
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April 29, 2025
Amazon Can't Shake Return Policy Suit, Wash. Judge Rules
A Washington federal judge refused Tuesday to dismiss claims accusing Amazon of unlawfully recharging consumers under its "advanced refund" return policy, ruling that the e-commerce giant could face tort and quasi-contract liability alongside breach of contract allegations.
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April 29, 2025
Pork Producers Want Ruling Tossed Over Clerk's Conduct
Pork producers and Agri Stats Inc., which are defending themselves against a major price-fixing suit, are calling on the Minnesota federal judge overseeing the case to recuse himself and vacate his recent rulings, accusing one of his clerks of having inappropriate relationships with plaintiffs' attorneys in a new filing this week.
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April 29, 2025
Gore-Tex Maker Seeks Dismissal Of PFAS Suit
The company behind the waterproof fabric brand Gore-Tex urged a Washington federal court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of manufacturing with toxic forever chemicals while also "greenwashing" its image, arguing that the buyers, who did not actually test their garments, provide no proof that the clothing they bought contains these substances.
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April 29, 2025
Deloitte, SCANA Investor Class Settle Suit Over Failed Project
Deloitte and a certified class of SCANA Corp. investors told a South Carolina federal judge Tuesday they've settled claims accusing the accounting firm of issuing audit reports that misled investors about the progress the utility company was making on a $9 billion nuclear energy expansion project that never came to fruition.
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April 29, 2025
Honda America Asks To Halt Faulty Brakes Suit
American Honda Motor Co. urged a California federal judge Monday to throw out an amended proposed class action alleging some of the automaker's vehicles equipped with automatic emergency braking are unsafe, arguing the claims are meritless because the owner's manuals disclose the possibility of false activations of the braking system.
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April 29, 2025
North Georgia Healthcare Provider Sued Over Data Breach
A regional healthcare provider and a collections agency have been hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court over allegations that their lax cybersecurity practices allowed hackers to steal the protected health information of patients during a July 2024 data breach.
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April 29, 2025
Kim Kardashian, Celebs Challenge Crypto Buyers' Cert. Bid
The co-founder of the EthereumMax crypto token and celebrities who allegedly promoted the offering told a California federal judge that a group of spurned buyers should not be able to certify their class action since they have not provided a way to determine how many transactions would fall in each category.
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April 29, 2025
CRT Buyers Want $3.7B In Damages After Price-Fixing Default
Groups of buyers in long-running litigation over an alleged conspiracy to fix cathode ray tube prices asked a California federal court for $3.7 billion in damages after a default judgment against Chinese electronics company Irico Group for failing to preserve evidence.
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April 29, 2025
Unilever Care Products Not So 'Naturally Derived,' Suit Claims
Unilever and Conopco sell Love Beauty & Planet and Dove Men's product lines that falsely claim to contain 90% or higher natural ingredients when, in fact, they contain only around 80 to 85% naturally derived ingredients, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.
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April 29, 2025
Workday Bias Suit May Gain Collective Status
A federal judge appeared inclined Tuesday to greenlight a collective action from job applicants over 40 who say they were unlawfully steered away from jobs by a Workday hiring tool, saying she saw a "common answer" applying across the proposed group.
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April 29, 2025
Apple Beats Claim Amber Alert On AirPod Hurt Boy's Hearing
A California federal judge on Monday tossed a Texas mother's lawsuit accusing Apple Inc. of being responsible for her teenage son's permanent hearing loss after an Amber Alert allegedly rang through defective AirPods and ruptured his eardrums, saying a physician's expert opinion they leaned on was unreliable for proving causation.
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April 29, 2025
Meta Looks To Delete User Antitrust Claims Over Pay For Data
Meta urged a California federal court Monday to end antitrust claims from consumers alleging they should be paid for their data, saying flawed expert theories that doomed class certification also sink the entire case for the remaining individual plaintiffs.
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April 29, 2025
Highmark Must Face Bulk Of Data Breach Lawsuit
A group of individuals who said their personal information was compromised in a phishing attack against health insurer Highmark can largely proceed with their proposed class action against the company, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, finding the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged they'll suffer imminent and concrete injuries, thereby establishing standing.
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April 29, 2025
OKCoin Says Crypto Holders Can't Tie Firm To $2M Theft
Digital asset exchange OKCoin and its affiliates urged a California federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action accusing them of enabling cryptocurrency thieves, arguing the real cause of the plaintiffs' losses was the initial theft, not any actions by the exchange.
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April 29, 2025
PacifiCorp Hit With $11M Verdict In Latest Wildfire Case
A Portland, Oregon, jury awarded around $10.8 million in noneconomic damages Tuesday to nine plaintiffs who suffered property damage in a group of 2020 wildfires attributed to PacifiCorp's negligence, with the awards likely to be increased to account for punitive damages.
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April 29, 2025
Migrants Tell 1st Circ. 3rd Country Removals Can Be Limited
A class of immigrants has urged the First Circuit to reject the Trump administration's attempt to lift an order restricting deportations to countries where they have no prior ties, saying federal law does not bar injunctions concerning protection under the Convention Against Torture.
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April 29, 2025
Opioid MDL Judge Won't Recuse Over Ex Parte Allegations
An Ohio federal judge will not step aside from multidistrict opioid litigation after the plaintiffs' attorney, who had alleged the judge "regularly communicates" with other lawyers involved in the litigation, testified that there was no such communication after all, the judge ruled Tuesday.
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April 29, 2025
Firm In Salmon Antitrust Case Owes Referral Fee, Suit Says
A Boston law firm says another firm that served as co-lead counsel in a salmon purchaser antitrust case is refusing to honor a referral fee agreement for 15% of the attorney costs in the Florida litigation, according to a federal complaint filed Monday in Massachusetts.
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April 29, 2025
Retirees Fight Lockheed's Quick Appeal Push In Annuity Suit
Lockheed Martin retirees urged a Maryland federal judge not to allow the company to immediately challenge a ruling that kept alive their suit claiming Lockheed illegally pushed workers' pensions into risky annuities, arguing an appeal would be premature even though a similar case was recently tossed out.
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April 29, 2025
Judge Tosses Chalmers' NIL Suit, Hands NCAA Major Victory
In a significant win for the NCAA against a wave of college athletes suing for past name, image and likeness compensation as a multibillion-dollar settlement awaits approval, a New York federal judge dismissed a proposed class action by 16 former men's basketball players accusing the NCAA of exploiting them long after their careers ended.
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April 28, 2025
Gitmo Atty Access Still Lacking, Immigrant Detainees Allege
The Trump administration is still making it difficult for immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay to access attorneys, including by denying in-person attorney visits and missing scheduled attorney-client phone calls, two detainees alleged in an amended suit filed Friday in D.C. federal court.
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April 28, 2025
Nivea Maker Hit With False Ad Greenwashing Suit
The Nivea brand of products such as lotions, body creams, deodorants and cleansing wipes are falsely advertised as made predominantly of ingredients derived from natural products, like aloe or avocado oil, even though nearly all the ingredients are synthetic, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
3rd. Circ. Got It Right On Cancer Warning Claims Preemption
The Third Circuit's recent, eminently sensible ruling in a failure-to-warn case against Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act preempts state law claims, provides a road map that other courts should adopt, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation.
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Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent
A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions
Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.
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Employers Should Not Neglect Paid Military Leave Compliance
An August decision from the Ninth Circuit and the settlement of a long-running class action, both examining paid leave requirements under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, are part of a nationwide trend that should prompt employers to review their military leave policies to avoid potential litigation and reputational damage, says Bradford Kelley at Littler.
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Unpacking Jurisdiction Issues In 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling
The Third Circuit's recent ruling in George v. Rushmore Service Center could be interpreted to establish three principles regarding district courts' jurisdiction to enter arbitration-related orders under the Federal Arbitration Act, two of which may lead to confusion, says David Cinotti at Pashman Stein.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings
Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Series
Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.
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What BIPA Reform Law Means For Biometrics Litigation
A recently signed Illinois law amending the Biometric Information Privacy Act limits defendants' liability exposure on a per-scan basis and clarifies that electronic signatures constitute a valid written release, establishing additional issues that courts will need to address in future BIPA litigation, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process
Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.
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RealPage Suit Shows Growing Algorithm, AI Pricing Scrutiny
The U.S. Department of Justice's suit against RealPage for helping fix rental rates, filed last week, demonstrates how the use of algorithmic and artificial intelligence tools to assist with pricing decisions is drawing increasing scrutiny and action across government agencies, and specifically at the Federal Trade Commission and the DOJ, say Andre Geverola and Leah Harrell at Arnold & Porter.