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• June 18, 2018

  Bristol-Myers Squibb: 1 Year Later

  In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California — limiting where plaintiffs can bring claims and curbing forum-shopping in mass tort litigation — courts have grappled with questions that the ruling did not address, and defendants have pursued jurisdictional defenses in class actions and federal cases that were not previously available, say attorneys with Eversheds Sutherland LLP.

• June 18, 2018

  High Court Rejects AT&T Data-Usage Arbitration Dispute

  The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not review a Ninth Circuit decision refusing to release a proposed class of AT&T wireless customers from arbitration of their claims that the company lied about its unlimited mobile data plan.

• June 18, 2018

  Insights From State AG Coordinated Opioid Investigation

  Much ink has been and will be spilled over the merits and complexities of the lawsuits brought against opioid manufacturers by 23 state attorneys general. However, for any company engaged in a consumer-facing industry, the progress of the recent multistate investigation offers lessons on what to expect when subject to this type of inquiry, says Richard Lawson of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP.

• June 18, 2018

  High Court To Hear Apple's Appeal In Monopoly Case

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took up Apple Inc.’s bid to quash a proposed consumer class action claiming the technology giant illegally monopolized the iPhone app market, a little more than month after the Trump administration threw its weight behind the tech giant's request.

• June 15, 2018

  Fitbit Abuses Arbitration To Skip All Claims, Consumers Say

  Fitbit Inc. abused its own arbitration clause to avoid ever facing claims from consumers about problems with its heart-monitoring watches, the consumers’ attorneys told a California federal judge Friday, saying the company refused to participate in the arbitration it had requested for two years.

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