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May 20, 2025
Elf Beauty Brass Face Investor Suit Over Declining Demand
Executives and directors of cosmetics company e.l.f. Beauty were hit with a shareholder derivative suit accusing them of concealing declining consumer demand, which led to a 55% decline in stock value as information regarding waning revenues and increasing inventory emerged.
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May 20, 2025
4th Circ. Won't Revive Md. Retirees' Drug Benefits Case
The Fourth Circuit backed Maryland's defeat of a proposed class action alleging it broke promises made to retirees when it transitioned their prescription drug benefits to Medicare Part D, saying Tuesday that a lower court was right to toss the case.
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May 20, 2025
BofA Class In Out-Of-Network ATM Fee Fight Narrowed
A California federal judge tweaked the definition of a class of account holders suing Bank of America over out-of-network fees for balance inquiries at certain ATMs, agreeing to exclude certain members from the class but largely rejecting the bank's qualms with the class certification.
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May 20, 2025
Nextdoor Beats Investor Suit Over Post-SPAC Profitability
A California federal judge has tossed a shareholder class action that alleges hyperlocal social networking service Nextdoor Holdings Inc. misled investors about its projected profitability when combining with a special purpose acquisition company, saying the suit's plaintiff never owned or sold the company's securities before the merger, among other things.Â
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May 20, 2025
J&J Workers Reassert Drug Costs Resulted In Concrete Harm
Johnson & Johnson workers are urging a New Jersey federal court to maintain their proposed class claims that the company botched the management of prescription drug costs in its employee healthcare plan by allowing excessive pharmacy costs, asserting that company mismanagement resulted in concrete harm.
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May 20, 2025
Meta Asks To Toss Claim That Illegal Tool Scraped Tax Info
Meta's tracking tool did not violate state privacy law, the company argued, urging a California federal court to toss a claim calling the tool an unauthorized recording device that collected sensitive information from tax filing websites H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer.
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May 20, 2025
The Alien Enemies Act Cases: A Roundup
Litigation over President Donald Trump’s March 14 proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act has moved at breakneck speed, spurring two U.S. Supreme Court decisions already while at least five different districts weigh his authority to invoke the wartime law. Here, Law360 catches you up on major developments in the litigation.
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May 20, 2025
Biotech Stockholders Challenge Director Pay Levels In Del.
Investors in biotech company Intellia Therapeutics Inc. stock opened a derivative suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday seeking recovery of allegedly excessive compensation paid to non-employee directors for multiple years without an approval vote by stockholders.
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May 20, 2025
Feds Ignored Order With South Sudan Removals, Judge Told
Lawyers for immigrants at risk of being deported to countries where they have no prior ties and may face harm told a Boston federal judge Tuesday that the government removed at least two class members to South Sudan in violation of a court order.
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May 20, 2025
Ex-Worker Accuses TIAA Of Mismanaging 401(k) Plans
An ex-worker accused the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America of violating federal benefits law by keeping costly and underperforming fund offerings in its two employee 401(k) retirement plans, in a proposed class action lodged Tuesday in New York federal court.
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May 20, 2025
Investor Seeks Final OK For $41.5M Pilgrim's Pride Settlement
A proposed class of investors asked a Colorado federal judge for a final sign-off on a $41.5 million settlement with Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to resolve claims they artificially inflated stock prices with a price-fixing scheme targeted at the broiler chicken market, with $13.7 million of the deal going to attorney fees.
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May 20, 2025
TikTok's Bid To Get NY Docs From AG Sunk By New State Law
A New York state judge on Tuesday denied TikTok's bid to force the New York attorney general to turn over agency documents related to claims the app harms children's mental health, relying on an amendment tucked into the state's budget that was signed into law this month.
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May 20, 2025
Ex-NCAA Basketball Players Appealing NIL Denial To 2nd Circ.
A group of 16 former men's basketball players suing the NCAA for unrealized name, image and likeness compensation filed notice Monday that they plan to appeal to the Second Circuit a New York federal court's decision to toss their lawsuit.
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May 20, 2025
Health Clinics Say Fake Trash Fee Scheme Cost Them Millions
Republic Services Inc. got hit with a proposed class action by health clinics in Michigan and Ohio that claim the waste disposal company breached its contracts with them by charging "tens of millions" in excess fees without any legal justification.
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May 20, 2025
Meta Says Too Late For 'Dramatic Shift' In Antitrust Argument
Consumers who claim Meta monopolized the social media advertising market are attempting to make a late "dramatic shift" from their years-long argument that all of its users should have been paid a "made-up figure" of $5 a month for their data, the company told a California federal court Monday.
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May 20, 2025
Amazon, Apple Get Atty Fees Over Dropped Antitrust Plaintiff
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday ordered an ousted lead plaintiff's counsel in a proposed antitrust class action against Amazon and Apple to pay a combined $223,000 in attorney fees to the defendants after finding last month that the lawyers had failed to tell the court that their client had abandoned the case.
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May 20, 2025
Indirect Chicken Buyers' Attys Seek Additional $12M In Fees
Attorneys for commercial and institutional indirect purchaser plaintiffs in sprawling antitrust litigation against the nation's top poultry producers asked an Illinois federal judge Monday to approve roughly $12 million in additional attorney fees after they secured more than $41 million in additional deals since a prior fee motion.
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May 20, 2025
1st Circ. Tosses Puerto Rican Players' MLB Antitrust Appeal
The First Circuit has dismissed an appeal in a wage-fixing antitrust action filed by minor league players against the MLB and its teams, finding the players committed a critical error by not objecting to a federal magistrate judge's recommendation to dismiss the underlying case.
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May 20, 2025
Legal Ed Platforms Settle Attorney's Data Harvesting Suit
Two platforms for continuing legal education content have settled a proposed class action from a Seattle attorney which alleged that the companies violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by using Meta's Pixel tracking software on their sites, the parties said Monday.
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May 20, 2025
ZoomInfo Accused Of Illegally Selling Cellphone Numbers
ZoomInfo is facing allegations that it violates Colorado law by selling individuals' cellphone numbers without their consent, in a proposed class action that was moved to Washington federal court last week.
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May 20, 2025
Worker Says Health System Must Face Time Rounding Suit
An Ohio county health system should face a proposed collective action accusing it of illegally rounding down workers' time in efforts to short them on wages, a medical assistant said, telling a federal judge she put forward enough detail to back up her claims.
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May 20, 2025
Veterans Seek Certification For VA Consultant Fee Claims
A proposed class of veterans urged a North Carolina federal judge to certify their claims against a consulting firm they allege charged them millions in illegal fees, arguing that the individual claims of thousands all hinge on a single statutory interpretation.
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May 19, 2025
Vanguard $40M Deal Rejected In Investors' Tax Fight
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday rejected a $40 million proposed settlement between Vanguard and investors, blocking the investors' attorneys from netting $13 million in fees and embracing the objections of one investor who called out the deal — meant to compensate for surprise tax bills — as worthless.Â
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May 19, 2025
Carrier's Kidde-Fenwal Ch. 11 Deal Barred By Purdue, AGs Say
Connecticut and other states Monday objected to Carrier Global Corp.'s proposed $540 million deal releasing it from "forever chemicals" litigation liability through its ownership of bankrupt firefighting foam manufacturer Kidde-Fenwal Inc., saying the U.S. Supreme Court shot down a similar deal in drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP's bankruptcy case.
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May 19, 2025
Protesters Say Fort Lauderdale Cops Can't Claim Immunity
Demonstrators who said the police improperly used were tear gas during a 2020 George Floyd protest urged a Florida federal court to not dismiss their proposed class action suit, arguing that they had presented enough facts to get past the Fort Lauderdale police officers' qualified immunity defense.
Expert Analysis
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The Justices' Securities Rulings, Dismissals That Defined '24
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 securities rulings led to increased success for defendants' price impact arguments, but the justices' decisions not to weigh in on important issues relating to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's pleading requirements may be just as significant, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Series
Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer
From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team
In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.
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Musk Pay Fight Shows Investor Approval Isn't Universal Cure
The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent denial of a motion revising its prior rescission of Elon Musk's nearly $56 billion compensation package is a reminder of the heightened standard corporate boards must meet in conflicted controller transactions and that stockholder approval doesn't automatically cure fiduciary wrongdoing, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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Data Privacy Landscape After Mass. Justices' Wiretap Ruling
In Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court recently ruled that the state’s wiretap law doesn’t prohibit all tracking of website user activity, but major financial and reputational risks remain for businesses that aren't transparent about customer’s web data, says Seth Berman at Nutter.
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Opinion
Justices Rightly Corrected Course In Nvidia And Facebook
By dismissing both the Nvidia and Facebook class actions, over investors' ability to hold corporations accountable for fraud, the U.S. Supreme Court was right in refusing to favor corporations over transparency, and reaffirmed its commitment to corporate accountability, investor protection and the rule of law, says Laura Posner at Cohen Milstein.
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Del. Dispatch: The 2024 Corporate Cases You Need To Know
The Delaware Court of Chancery in 2024 issued several decisions that some viewed as upending long-standing corporate practices, leading to the amendment of the Delaware General Corporation Law and debates at some Delaware corporations about potentially reincorporating to another state, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.
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How A 9th Circ. Identicality Ruling Could Affect AI Cos.
If the Ninth Circuit agrees to settle a district court split over whether the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires a copy to be identical to an original to support an actionable claim for removing copyright management information, the decision could have important ramifications for artificial intelligence businesses, says Maria Sinatra at Venable.
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Why Class Cert. Is Unlikely In Cases Like Mattel 'Wicked' Suit
A proposed class action recently filed in California federal court against Mattel over the company's "Wicked" doll boxes accidentally listing a pornographic website illustrates the uphill battle plaintiffs face in certifying a class when many consumers never saw or relied on the representation at issue, says Alex Smith at Jenner & Block.
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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.
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Cos. Must Brace For New PFAS Regulations And Litigation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed adding over 100 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the Toxic Release Inventory — and with increasing scrutiny of PFAS from the states and the plaintiffs bar as well, companies should take steps to reduce risks in this area, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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Using Data To Inform Corporate Disclosure Decisions
With today’s market volatility and regulatory factors requiring public companies to confront competing transparency and protection demands, incorporating stock price reaction analysis of company-specific news into the controller's role could be beneficial for disclosure determinations, say Liz Dunshee at Fredrikson & Byron and Nessim Mezrahi at SAR.