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June 20, 2025
4 ERISA Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's challenge to a pair of injunctions blocking Biden-era regulations that broaden who qualifies as an investment advice fiduciary under federal benefits law tops the list of cases benefits attorneys will be watching in the latter half of the year.
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June 18, 2025
Rio Tinto Agrees To $139M Mongolian Mine Suit Settlement
Rio Tinto agreed to pay $139 million to resolve a putative securities class action that accused the mining giant of concealing delays and cost overruns in a $7 billion copper-gold mine development in southern Mongolia, according to a group of investment funds' Wednesday motion for the settlement's preliminary approval.
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June 18, 2025
Groups Say Feds Violate Flores With Lengthy Child Detention
Children's and legal rights groups on Tuesday evening urged a California federal judge to enforce a decadesold settlement agreement governing the custody of immigrant children, saying migrant children today are being held for prolonged periods in unsafe and unsanitary "prison-like" conditions.
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June 18, 2025
Alphabet, Investors Face Judge's Questions Over $500M Deal
A California federal judge has questions about an investor settlement with Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., which agreed to earmark half a billion dollars over the next 10 years to overhaul its global compliance structure to resolve claims against company leaders of anticompetitive and monopolistic practices.
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June 18, 2025
DC Judge Delves Into Facts Of Long-Running Price-Fix MDL
A D.C. federal judge spent four hours Wednesday morning trying to sort out the facts in sprawling, long-running multidistrict litigation accusing the country's four largest railroad companies of fixing fuel surcharge prices, so that she can tackle summary judgment.
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June 18, 2025
State Farm Likely To Face 200K Calif. Homeowner Class
A California federal judge indicated Wednesday that he'll likely certify a class of nearly 200,000 homeowners in litigation alleging that State Farm underpays property insurance claims by depreciating sales tax when calculating replacement costs, saying a common issue predominates and noting he'd sided with plaintiffs in a similar 2017 case.
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June 18, 2025
J&J Hit With $8M Verdict In Multi-Exposure Talc Case
A jury awarded $8 million on Wednesday to a Massachusetts woman who said Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder caused her mesothelioma, rejecting the company's claims that family members' work around asbestos absolved it of blame.
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June 18, 2025
Anavex Gets Suit Over Rett Syndrome Clinical Trials Nixed
A New York federal judge tossed an Anavex investor's proposed class action alleging she suffered losses from its misleading statements regarding methodologies used in neurological treatment clinical trials, ruling that stock prices rose from the day the statements were made after Anavex made corrective disclosures in a pre-market earnings call.
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June 18, 2025
Consumers Drop Gore-Tex 'Greenwashing' Class Suit
Consumers suing the maker of the waterproof fabric Gore-Tex are looking to end, for now, their proposed class action against the company alleging W.L. Gore & Associates used toxic forever chemicals to manufacture its material while also "greenwashing" its image.
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June 18, 2025
Pilgrims Pride Investors Get Final OK To $41.5M Deal
Investors of poultry giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp. received the final nod for a $41.5 million deal to settle claims that trading prices for the company's shares were artificially inflated amid its participation in a broiler chicken price-fixing scheme.
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June 18, 2025
Sotera Investors Urge 6th Circ. To Reopen Toxic Gas Suit
Sotera Health investors are seeking to revive a lawsuit accusing the company of concealing the carcinogenic nature of a gas used at its sterilization plants, telling the Sixth Circuit that the company knew that its "outrageous and cynical" behavior would cost it hundreds of millions of dollars.
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June 18, 2025
AI Software Co. Cerence's Leaders Beat Shareholder Suit
A Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday tossed a consolidated derivative shareholder suit against the top brass of artificial intelligence software company Cerence Inc. over its revenue reporting, saying the plaintiffs did not make a presuit demand on the company's board and have failed to show that such a demand would have been futile.
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June 18, 2025
Spectrum Pharma Investors Get First OK For $16M Deal
A Nevada federal judge has given the first green light to a nearly $16 million settlement between a pharmaceutical company and a class of investors who claimed the company and its executives overstated the status of two of its developed drugs and withheld negative data and trial results, leading to a stock drop when the truth was revealed.
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June 18, 2025
BofA Judge Doubts Class Certification Bid In Unpaid PTO Suit
A California federal judge doubted Wednesday whether a named plaintiff can adequately represent a proposed class of Bank of America employees who claim they weren't paid for unused vacation time when they left the bank, observing during a hearing that her individualized issues "could make her very differently situated."
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June 18, 2025
NY High Court Lifts Block On NYC Shifting Retiree Healthcare
New York's highest court lifted an injunction Wednesday that had blocked New York City from switching retired city employees' health insurance provider, ruling that the city never promised its retirees that it would keep them on a Medicare supplemental plan.
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June 18, 2025
Ex-Drug Exec Must Testify, But Keeps 5th Amendment Rights
Sandoz, Teva, Actavis and Taro can again subpoena the deposition testimony of a former Actavis and Teva executive, but a Pennsylvania federal judge is still allowing the witness to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, even though the Justice Department dropped the criminal charges against him.
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June 18, 2025
GM Hit With New Class Action Over V8 Engine Defect
General Motors LLC misled consumers by knowingly selling hundreds of thousands of SUVs and trucks with potentially deadly defective engines that could suddenly fail, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Michigan federal court.
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June 18, 2025
Cleo AI Wants Service Member's Predatory-Lending Suit Nixed
Online lender Cleo AI Inc. is seeking the dismissal of claims that it targeted military members with predatory lending practices, arguing that under relevant law, its "non-recourse advances" don't count as credit — and that, anyway, its users all agreed to arbitrate any disputes when they signed up to use its services.
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June 18, 2025
Online Bookstore Investors Seek Del. Sale Suit Revival
Stockholders of an online "virtual" bookstore that lost money for years urged Delaware's Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a Court of Chancery decision upholding a $12.5 million sale to the company's preferred shareholders under a disputed liquidation preference.
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June 18, 2025
9th Circ. Backs Papa John's Win Against Wiretapping Suit
The Ninth Circuit refused to reinstate a customer's proposed class action accusing Papa John's of recording website visitors' activities in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, ruling Wednesday the pizza chain, as a party to the communications, can't be liable for spying on its own conversation.
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June 18, 2025
Reddit Execs Downplayed Google AI's Impact, Investors Say
Reddit and its top brass downplayed the impact Google's artificial intelligence-generated search results had on the forum website's traffic and ad revenues, causing stocks to drop when the truth emerged about weakening revenues, according to an investor's proposed class action filed Wednesday in California federal court.
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June 18, 2025
Emotional Distress Claims Rejected In OSU Doctor Abuse Suit
A federal court has ruled that student-athletes suing the Ohio State University after being abused by an athletic team doctor cannot recover emotional distress damages under private Title IX actions.
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June 18, 2025
Belk Didn't Protect Private Info From Data Breach, Suits Say
Belk Inc. allegedly failed to safeguard the personal information of its employees and customers from hackers, resulting in a cyberattack that the department store chain has reportedly concealed, according to a pair of class action lawsuits filed in North Carolina.
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June 18, 2025
Opt-Out 'Oversight' May Not Excuse Burford In Price-Fix Deal
An Illinois federal judge considering a $32 million price-fixing settlement between turkey producer Cargill and a group of direct purchasers seemed skeptical Wednesday of two Burford Capitol subsidiaries' assertion that they should be considered excluded from the deal despite submitting their opt-out request a day late.
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June 18, 2025
News Orgs Urge Court To Stick With OpenAI Evidence Order
A group of news organizations has asked a Manhattan federal judge to reject OpenAI's request to terminate an order for it to retain output log data for user conversations with ChatGPT, saying the order is necessary to prevent the company from deleting further evidence in a case alleging news articles were improperly used to train the generative artificial intelligence model.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.
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6 Predictions For Cyber Risk And Insurance In 2025
This year is likely to bring with it some thorny and expensive cyber challenges, including increased ransomware activity, more data breach class actions and continued efforts to define business interruption loss calculations, say attorneys at Wiley.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Section 230 Debates Will Continue, With Or Without TikTok
Regardless of whether TikTok is forced to shut down in the U.S. in the coming weeks, legal disputes will continue over social media platforms' responsibility under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for harms allegedly caused by content shared on their apps, says Carla Varriale-Barker at Segal McCambridge.
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5 Privacy Law Trends That Will Continue In 2025
While preparing privacy programs for the year, companies should keep in mind several developments from 2024 that will carry over — namely, in the realm of artificial intelligence, passive data collection, combining data from multiple sources, privacy program expectations and managing vendors, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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When Judging Product Label Claims, Follow The Asterisk
A recurring question in false advertising class actions is whether misleading or ambiguous statements on a product's front label can be cured by information on the back label — but recent decisions from the Ninth Circuit suggest that a front-label asterisk can help alert consumers to seek further clarification, say attorneys at Hunton.
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2 Cases May Enlighten UK Funds' Securities Litigation Path
Following recent nine-figure settlements in securities class actions against Apple and Under Armour, U.K. pension funds may increasingly lead U.S. shareholder derivative suits, advocating for transparency, better risk management and stronger governance practices, say lawyers at Labaton Keller.
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Series
Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.
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5 Drug And Device Developments That Shaped 2024
The last year saw significant legal developments affecting drug and device manufacturers, with landmark decisions and regulatory changes that require vigilance and agility from the industry, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation
Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.
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Consultants Should Be Aware Of DOJ's Potential New Reach
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent first-of-its-kind settlement with McKinsey & Co. indicates not only the DOJ's more aggressive stance toward businesses' potential criminal wrongdoings, but also the benefits of self-disclosure and cooperation when wrongdoing becomes apparent, says Dom Caamano at Kibler Fowler.
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Product Safety Issues In 2024 Highlight Need For Vigilance
A look at some of the medications and foods that led to significant class actions last year demonstrates the need for robust regulatory systems and proactive measures to protect consumers from defective and harmful products, says Jennifer Taylor at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin.
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Series
Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.