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• May 25, 2017

  O'Hare Janitors Lose Class Cert. In FLSA Suit

  After two years of enjoying conditional class certification in their Fair Labor Standards Act case, a group of custodians at Chicago's O'Hare Airport have had their class decertified by an Illinois federal judge, as the court found the group to be too disparate to be considered a class.

• May 25, 2017

  Pharma Cos. Say No Fraud Claimed In Cancer Drug Size Suit

  Three companies involved in the manufacture and distribution of the cancer drug Velcade told an Illinois federal judge on Thursday to dismiss claims they conspired to inflate sales by selling oversized vials, saying the union health plans that filed the suit failed to state any real claims.

• May 25, 2017

  Zimmer Knee Implant Cases Will Move Forward As MDL

  An Illinois federal judge has said she will not disband multidistrict litigation accusing Zimmer Inc. of manufacturing shoddy knee implants before she can try another pair of bellwethers in her court.

• May 25, 2017

  GSK Seeks New Trial In Reed Smith Atty Suicide Case

  GlaxoSmithKline asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday to grant it a new trial over a suit filed by the widow of a Reed Smith LLP attorney who died after taking a generic form of one of its antidepressants, arguing the jury’s finding that the company was liable for his suicide wasn’t supported by the evidence.

• May 25, 2017

  7th Circ. Backs CFTC Dismissal Of $3.6M Trading Loss Suit

  The Seventh Circuit said Thursday that a family trust waited too long to bring claims over its $3.6 million loss in futures contracts trading, upholding a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ruling that the trust's arbitration of the claims did not pause their time limits.

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