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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.
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May 19, 2025
Cepton Sued In Del. Over $125M Koito Take-Private Deal
A Cepton Inc. stockholder has launched a proposed class action challenging the light detection and ranging technology company's $3.17-per-share, $125.4 million take-private acquisition by Japan-based Koito Manufacturing Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery, alleging fiduciary breaches by the company's CEO, four directors and the deal's investment banker.
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May 19, 2025
Uber Pushes To Move Sex Assault Cases To Related Districts
Uber has asked a California federal judge to move various bellwether trials in multidistrict litigation accusing the rideshare company of failing to prevent drivers from sexually assaulting passengers to the federal districts where the alleged incidents occurred, citing the forum selection clause in its terms of use.
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May 19, 2025
Wells Fargo's 9th Circ. Cert. Challenge Gains SIFMA Backing
A top securities industry group has voiced its support of Wells Fargo's appeal of class certification in an investor dispute alleging the bank conducted "sham" interviews to meet diversity quotas, which harmed the bank's stock price when the truth came to light.
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May 19, 2025
Feds Denied Stay In 1st Circ. Third Country Removal Suit
The First Circuit rejected the Trump administration's attempt to halt a federal court order directing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide due process protections for immigrants facing deportation to third countries where they have no ties.
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May 19, 2025
Amazon Asks 9th Circ. To Flip 'Inadvertent' Discovery Ruling
Amazon asked the Ninth Circuit to reverse a Washington federal court's ruling that refused its bid to claw back documents inadvertently produced in proposed antitrust class actions, saying companies need to be able to fix mistakes made when designating privileged documents.
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May 19, 2025
Lending App EarnIn Hit With Consumer Class Action In NC
Pay day loan app EarnIn has been hit with a proposed class action in North Carolina alleging its cash advance product violates state consumer protection laws by distributing cash advances without a license and dupes consumers into paying unnecessary fees.
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May 19, 2025
Insurer Drops Fight Over $9M OpenText Merger Settlement
Allied World National Assurance Company on Monday ended its lawsuit seeking a declaration that it wasn't obligated to contribute to a $9 million settlement in a shareholder class action stemming from Covisint Corp.'s merger with OpenText.
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May 19, 2025
MicroStrategy Faces Investor Suit Over Bitcoin Strategy
Analytics software company MicroStrategy was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging that it downplayed the risk of major financial losses that would follow an update to its crypto accounting methodology.
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May 19, 2025
Spirits Maker Haunted By Inventory Woes, Investor Suit Says
The top brass of alcoholic beverage company MGP Ingredients Inc. has been hit with a shareholder derivative suit alleging they misled investors about how well the company was managing its inventory levels, only to reveal that excess inventory following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic was impacting the business.Â
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May 19, 2025
Binance Argues All Class Members Must Arbitrate Claims
Crypto exchange Binance has urged a New York federal judge to require arbitration for all plaintiffs in a proposed class action accusing the crypto exchange of improperly selling securities, saying its terms of use include a class action waiver.
Expert Analysis
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape
While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation
As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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Parsing 3rd Circ. Ruling On Cannabis, Employee Private Suits
The Third Circuit recently upheld a decision that individuals don't have a private right of action for alleged violations of New Jersey's Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act, but employers should stay informed as the court encouraged the state Legislature to amend the law, say attorneys at Mandelbaum Barrett.
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Series
Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.
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Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations
In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.
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Justices Likely To Stay In ERISA's Bounds On Pleadings
The arguments in Cunningham v. Cornell showed the U.S. Supreme Court's willingness to resolve a circuit split regarding Employee Retirement Income Security Act pleading standards by staying within ERISA's confines, while instructing courts regarding what must be pled to survive a motion to dismiss, says Ryan Curtis at Fennemore Craig.
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Series
Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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High Court Could Further Limit Deference With TCPA Fax Case
The Supreme Court's decision to hear McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, a case involving alleged junk faxes that centers whether district courts are bound by Federal Communications Commission rules, offers the court a chance to possibly further limit the judicial deference afforded to federal agency interpretations of statutes, says Samantha Duke at Rumberger Kirk.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: How MDLs Fared In 2024
A significant highlight of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's practice during 2024 was the increase in the percentage of new MDL petitions granted by the panel, with 25 granted and only eight denied — one of the highest grant rates in years, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.
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8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.