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Class Action

  • May 09, 2025

    6th Circ. Ruling Shows Toughening On ERISA Fiduciary Suits

    A recent Sixth Circuit decision that backed the dismissal of a proposed class action against an auto parts maker demonstrates how appellate courts are raising the bar for cases alleging breaches of fiduciary duty under federal benefits law, experts say.

  • May 09, 2025

    Disney Nears Prelim Approval On $43M Gender Pay Bias Deal

    A California judge said Friday he intends to grant preliminary approval of a $43.25 million class action settlement in a suit alleging Disney paid thousands of women in middle management less than their male colleagues.

  • May 09, 2025

    X Paying Millions In Severance Arbitration Losses, Atty Says

    X Corp. has lost nine out of every 10 arbitrations over former Twitter employees' claims they were shorted on severance payouts after Elon Musk's takeover of the social media company, resulting in awards ranging from $100,000 to millions of dollars, one of the workers' attorneys told a California federal judge.

  • May 09, 2025

    Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring

    Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.

  • May 09, 2025

    Off The Bench: Latest NIL Deal Fix, More WWE Court Troubles

    In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA tries again to get its multibillion-dollar compensation settlement approved, two sets of accusers draw Vince McMahon's history of misconduct at the WWE into their complaints, and the men's tennis tour was ordered to stop threatening players over joining an antitrust suit.

  • May 09, 2025

    Hiker And 'Raconteur': Atty Recalls 50-Year Bond With Souter

    Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.

  • May 09, 2025

    Chancery Rejects Shareholder Challenge To Fidelity Spinoff

    Observing that related-party company deals with controllers "are not inherently wrongful," a Delaware vice chancellor on Friday scuttled a pension fund suit challenging a $250 million Fidelity National Financial Inc. investment in a spun-off but still controlled former subsidiary.

  • May 09, 2025

    A Look At David Souter's Most Significant Opinions

    The retired Justice David Souter defied simple definition, viewed as a staunch conservative until he co-wrote an opinion upholding abortion rights in 1992. He did not hew to partisan lines, but reshaped the civil litigation landscape and took an unexpected stand in an extraordinarily close presidential election.

  • May 09, 2025

    Insurers Urge 1st Circ. To Undo Oil Co. Coverage Ruling

    Insurers for a heating oil company asked the First Circuit to reverse a decision forcing them to defend the company and several executives in a class action alleging damage caused by fuel containing elevated levels of biodiesel, saying the company's "purposeful business choices" do not constitute an occurrence.

  • May 09, 2025

    Justice Souter Was An Unexpected Force Of Moderation

    Justice David Souter, who saw the high court as a moderating force apart from the messiness of politics, subverted the expectations of liberals and conservatives alike during his 19 years on the bench.

  • May 09, 2025

    SeaWorld's $1.25M Deal To End 401(k) Suit Gets Initial Nod

    A $1.25 million deal to close a class action claiming SeaWorld burdened its $300 million employee retirement plan with pricey funds and high fees can move forward, a California federal judge ruled, after initially raising questions about the workers' damages calculations.

  • May 09, 2025

    Google Strikes $50M Deal To End Black Workers' Bias Suit

    Google has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve a proposed class action claiming the technology giant paid thousands of Black workers less than their white colleagues and provided them scant opportunities for advancement, according to a filing in California federal court.

  • May 09, 2025

    Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter Dies At 85

    Retired Justice David H. Souter, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 to 2009, has died at 85, the court announced Friday. 

  • May 08, 2025

    Google To Settle Ad Bidding Privacy Suit

    Google has reached a settlement in principle that will resolve a putative privacy rights class action accusing the tech giant of selling consumers' personal information to companies that participate in its fast-paced digital ad auctions without users' knowledge or consent, according to a notice filed Thursday in California federal court.

  • May 08, 2025

    AMAG Inks $7.5M Deal In Suit Over Preterm-Birth Drug

    AMAG Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve a group of women's proposed class action accusing it of misleading consumers into believing one of its drugs reduced the risk of preterm births, according to a motion filed Thursday seeking a New Jersey federal court's preliminary approval of the deal.

  • May 08, 2025

    Casinos' Market Too Broad In Monopoly Suit, Ill. Judge Hears

    Card shuffler giant Light & Wonder argued Thursday that an Illinois federal judge shouldn't let a group of casinos take the company to trial claiming it used fraud and sham litigation to secure a monopoly because they "cannot, did not and will not" define a relevant market for their case.

  • May 08, 2025

    Del. Justices Uphold Chancery Toss Of AMC Meme Stock Suit

    A long-running meme stock saga that saw common and preferred stockholders battle AMC Entertainment in Delaware's Court of Chancery over a preferred equity conversion plan ended quietly Thursday with a state Supreme Court refusal to disturb a vice chancellor's dismissal of a final settlement dispute.

  • May 08, 2025

    CEO Stole Funds To Fuel 'Gambling Habit', Investor Says

    An investor in a cybersecurity company has claimed in a new suit that the company's CEO defrauded the investor out of more than $2.8 million through falsified budgets and other means, all to support a "lavish" lifestyle and "severe gambling habit."

  • May 08, 2025

    Class Attys Awarded $15M In $50M GM Faulty Fuel Pump Deal

    A Michigan federal judge has given the final stamp of approval to a $50 million settlement resolving a class action that accused General Motors of selling diesel-powered trucks with defective fuel pumps, and awarded the consumers' lawyers $15 million in fees.

  • May 08, 2025

    Pa. Judge Gives Final OK To $1.1M Inquirer Data Breach Deal

    A Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing a consolidated action accusing the Philadelphia Inquirer of sharing subscribers' video viewing habits with Meta has granted final approval to a $1.1 million settlement, including nearly $375,000 in attorney's fees.

  • May 08, 2025

    Girardi's Mental Health Hearing Delayed Until June

    A California federal judge on Thursday postponed a mental health evaluation hearing for Tom Girardi meant to aid the court in sentencing the disbarred attorney for his wire fraud conviction, finding that because Girardi is hospitalized and did not waive his right to be present at the proceedings, it should not go forward as scheduled. 

  • May 08, 2025

    Universities Look To End Financial Aid-Fixing Claims

    Elite universities accused of conspiring to limit their financial aid offerings have told an Illinois federal court the undisputed evidence shows they compete vigorously for students, have expanded their financial aid programs and reduced student costs.

  • May 08, 2025

    Solicitor General Urges Justices To Let Immigrant Parole End

    Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to halt a Boston federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration from ending the parole status of nearly half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

  • May 08, 2025

    Ticketmaster Asks Justices To Protect 'Alternative' Arbitration

    Live Nation and Ticketmaster have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify whether a federal law requires courts to enforce only traditional arbitration arrangements Congress envisioned when the law was enacted a century ago, or also "alternative" agreements drafted more recently to process mass arbitration.

  • May 08, 2025

    Judge Says No French Connection In L'Oreal Hair Relaxer MDL

    An Illinois federal judge has dismissed L'Oréal USA Inc.'s French parent company from multidistrict litigation alleging it and other companies' hair relaxer products can cause health problems, finding the company doesn't have sufficient connections to the U.S. for the court to have jurisdiction.

Expert Analysis

  • The Justices' Securities Rulings, Dismissals That Defined '24

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    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.

  • Series

    Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    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.

  • Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team

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    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.

  • Musk Pay Fight Shows Investor Approval Isn't Universal Cure

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    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.

  • Data Privacy Landscape After Mass. Justices' Wiretap Ruling

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    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.

  • Opinion

    Justices Rightly Corrected Course In Nvidia And Facebook

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    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.

  • Del. Dispatch: The 2024 Corporate Cases You Need To Know

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    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.

  • When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US

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    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.

  • How A 9th Circ. Identicality Ruling Could Affect AI Cos.

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    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.

  • Why Class Cert. Is Unlikely In Cases Like Mattel 'Wicked' Suit

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    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.

  • What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025

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    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.

  • Series

    Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    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.

  • Cos. Must Brace For New PFAS Regulations And Litigation

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    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.

  • Opinion

    6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

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    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.

  • Using Data To Inform Corporate Disclosure Decisions

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    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.

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