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October 14, 2025
Sunbeam Faces Class Action Over 'Defective' Oster Oven
Sunbeam Products Inc. is facing a proposed class action in Georgia federal court over Oster-brand French door countertop ovens that were recalled in September due to burn hazards caused by spring-loaded doors that can unexpectedly close and burn users.
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October 14, 2025
Visa, MasterCard To Pay Combined $199.5M In Fraud Risk Suit
Visa Inc. and MasterCard International Corp. have agreed to pay a combined $199.5 million to resolve a nearly decade-old certified class action accusing the credit card giants of conspiring to dump fraud risk costs on merchants, according to documents filed in New York federal court.
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October 14, 2025
Six Pension Plans Settle In $2.1B Danish Tax Fraud Case
Six pension plans have settled claims by Denmark's tax agency accusing them of participating in a $2.1 billion scheme that fraudulently claimed refunds on tax withheld from stock dividends, with a New York federal court dismissing the allegations Tuesday.
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October 14, 2025
BP Urges 5th Circ. To Overturn Retirees' Pension Suit Win
BP urged the Fifth Circuit to overturn a Texas court's ruling that found the oil giant liable to company retirees for miscommunicating their pension benefits' value following a plan conversion, arguing the lower court judge erred in certifying a retiree class and handing the class judgment.
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October 14, 2025
3rd Circ. Vacates Injunction Over Erie Indemnity Fee Claims
A Pennsylvania federal court erred in preliminarily halting a state court action challenging Erie Indemnity Co.'s collection of a management fee, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, rejecting Erie Indemnity's position that two similar, now-dismissed lawsuits precluded the state court action from proceeding.
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October 14, 2025
4th Circ. Says Data Leak Info On Dark Web Is Grounds To Sue
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday partially revived a data breach class action against an insurance company, finding a subset of the proposed class has standing to sue because they allege their stolen driver's license numbers have since shown up on the dark web.
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October 14, 2025
Microsoft Bullied OpenAI Into Cloud Deal, Antitrust Suit Says
A group of ChatGPT subscribers launched a proposed class action in California federal court Monday accusing Microsoft Corp. of inflating prices by forcing OpenAI into a deal that made the software giant the sole provider of computing services for the growing suite of artificial intelligence products.
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October 14, 2025
Investment Adviser Can't Exit Suit Over Energy Co.'s 401(k)
An investment adviser failed Tuesday to escape a proposed class action alleging its poor advice cost employees of a Midwest utility company millions of dollars in retirement savings, as a Missouri federal judge ruled that plan participants' allegations are detailed enough to stay in court.
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October 14, 2025
Judge Won't Let Mortgage Co. Slip Data Breach Class Action
A Utah federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed data breach class action filed against a mortgage lender, ruling that only the proposed class's unjust enrichment claim will be tossed.
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October 14, 2025
Delta Urges Court Not To Certify Class In Greenwashing Suit
Delta Air Lines Inc. is asking a California judge to deny a motion to certify a proposed class action accusing it of overstating its emissions progress and falsely touting itself as the "first carbon-neutral" airline.
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October 14, 2025
Musk Blasts Investors' Late Bid To DQ Spiro In Twitter Case
Elon Musk should be allowed to keep lead trial counsel Alex Spiro since the investors accusing the billionaire of trying to tank Twitter's stock waited until the last minute to attempt to disqualify Spiro, who has Musk's consent to his being both trial counsel and witness, Musk told a California federal judge.
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October 14, 2025
Butcher Says NJ Grocery Store Stiffed Workers On Full Wages
A grocery store in New Jersey paid workers below the state minimum wage, denied them overtime pay and failed to keep accurate records, a former butcher alleged in a proposed class and collective action in federal court.
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October 14, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week at the Delaware Chancery Court, Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will ruled that Carlos Vasallo remains the CEO of Caribevision TV Network LLC, finding that majority investors' attempt to remove him under a defective 2019 agreement was invalid for lack of proper notice.
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October 14, 2025
Chancery Pushes Forward SaaS Co. Share Buyback Suit
A stockholder challenge to a tech company share repurchase seen as restoring, without cost, a co-founder's majority voting control won Delaware Court of Chancery fast-tracking on Tuesday, with a vice chancellor asking if the action could implicate expanded "safe harbor" protections already under state Supreme Court review.
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October 14, 2025
American Airlines Didn't Pay For Preflight Work, Suit Claims
American Airlines fails to pay its flight attendants for work they performed before and after their flights, resulting in unpaid overtime, a flight attendant claimed in a proposed class action in Pennsylvania state court.
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October 14, 2025
2nd Circ. Weighs Taking 'Novel' ICE Detainee Labor Appeal
A Second Circuit panel mulled Tuesday if it should consider on an interlocutory basis if the New York Labor Law covers a class of detainees who allege they were underpaid by a for-profit company that manages a Buffalo-area immigration detention facility.
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October 14, 2025
Justices Decline 7th Amendment Review In Calif. Pot Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case arguing that the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in civil cases should apply in instances of local law enforcement issuing penalties for alleged illicit marijuana cultivation.
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October 10, 2025
Zantac MDL Suits Were Impropely Tossed, 11th Circ. Told
Consumers urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to revive their claims in a multidistrict litigation alleging that the main ingredient in the heartburn medication Zantac causes cancer, saying the court overseeing the case improperly sided with drugmakers' experts and preempted more claims from coming forward.
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October 10, 2025
Judge Dubious Of Amazon Shoppers' Slow Shipping Zone Suit
A Washington federal judge cast doubt Friday on a group of Amazon Prime subscribers' argument that variability in delivery time by ZIP code amounts to an unfair business practice, highlighting data that suggests packages sometimes take longer than two days to arrive regardless of the purchaser's address.
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October 10, 2025
Block Founders Face Investor Suit Over Cash App Fraud
Several executives and directors of Cash App parent company Block Inc. have been hit with a derivative suit accusing them of allowing Cash App's "frictionless" sign-up system to fuel fraud, money laundering and inflated user counts while lying about compliance.
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October 10, 2025
Marex's Inflated Revenues Hurt Short Sellers, Suit Says
U.K.-based financial services company Marex Group PLC faces a proposed class action accusing the company of hurting short sellers by using off-order book transactions with its subsidiaries to improperly inflate certain key accounting metrics for its market-making segment.
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October 10, 2025
Cummins To Settle Investor Suit Over Emissions Scandal
Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. and an investor have reached an agreement to settle proposed class action claims that the company hurt investors by hiding emissions control devices in certain engines, for which the company has paid a record $2 billion to settle regulators' Clean Air Act claims.
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October 10, 2025
SC Woman Says Recall Not Enough For Wood In Corn Dogs
A South Carolina woman lodged a proposed class action Friday in California federal court claiming Foster Farms sold corn dogs later recalled for potentially containing wood in the batter, saying the recall isn't a sufficient remedy for consumers who've already bought the food.
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October 10, 2025
Musk Accuses OpenAI Ex-Exec Of Subpoena 'Cat And Mouse'
A California federal magistrate judge is allowing Elon Musk to serve a deposition subpoena by Federal Express to a tech executive who briefly served as OpenAI's interim CEO after hearing that process servers and investigators had attempted personal service 11 times but were "stonewalled" by the woman and her security.
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October 10, 2025
ATyr Pharma Faces Investor Suit Over Failed Drug Trial
Rare disease biotech aTyr Pharma Inc. and its CEO have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing them of misleading the public about the efficacy of aTyr's lung disease treatment for several months before announcing its trial had not yielded favorable results.
Expert Analysis
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9th Circ. Ruling Leaves SEC Gag Rule Open To Future Attacks
Though the Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Powell v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leaves the SEC's no-admit, no-deny rule intact, it could provide some fodder for litigants who wish to criticize the commission's activities either before or after settling with the commission, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
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Series
Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.
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Diverging FAA Preemption Rulings Underscore Role Of Venue
Two recent rulings evaluating Federal Arbitration Act preemption of state laws — one from the California Supreme Court, upholding the state law, and another from a New York federal court, upholding the arbitration agreement — demonstrate why venue should be a key consideration when seeking to enforce arbitration clauses, say attorneys at Hollingsworth.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law
Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.
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Rebutting Price Impact In Securities Class Actions
Defendants litigating securities cases historically faced long odds in defeating class certification, but that paradigm has recently begun to shift, with recent cases ushering in a more searching analysis of price impact and changing the evidence courts can consider at the class certification stage, say attorneys at Katten.
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7 Document Review Concepts New Attorneys Need To Know
For new associates joining firms this fall, stepping into the world of e-discovery can feel like learning a new language, but understanding a handful of fundamentals — from coding layouts to metadata — can help attorneys become fluent in document review, says Ann Motl at Bowman and Brooke.
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Opinion
Congress Must Resolve PSLRA Issue For Section 11 Litigants
By establishing a uniform judgment reduction credit for all defendants in cases involving Section 11 of the Securities Act, Congress could remove unnecessary statutory ambiguity from the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and enable litigants to price potential settlements with greater certainty, say attorneys at Sidley.
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FTC's Reseller Suit Highlights Larger Ticket Platform Issues
Taken together, the recent Federal Trade Commission lawsuit and Ticketmaster's recent antitrust woes demonstrate that federal enforcers are testing the resilience of antitrust and consumer-protection frameworks in an evolving, tech-driven marketplace, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.
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Agentic AI Puts A New Twist On Attorney Ethics Obligations
As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.
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Resilience Planning Is New Key To Corporate Sustainability
While the current wave of deregulation may reduce government enforcement related to climate issues, businesses still need to evaluate how climate volatility may affect their operations and create new legal risks — making the apolitical concept of resilience increasingly important for companies, says J. Michael Showalter at ArentFox Schiff.
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FDA Transparency Plans Raise Investor Disclosure Red Flags
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced intent to publish complete response letters for unapproved drugs and devices implicates certain investor disclosure requirements under securities laws, making it necessary for life sciences and biotech companies to adopt robust controls going forward, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Series
Being A Professional Wrestler Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.
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2 Calif. Cases Could Reshape Future Of Trap-And-Trace Suits
A California federal judge's recent dismissal of two California Invasion of Privacy Act cases demonstrates an inherent contradiction in pen register and trap-and-trace claims, teeing up a Ninth Circuit appeal that could either breathe new life into such claims or put an end to them outright, says Matthew Pearson at Womble Bond.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Adapting To The Age Of AI
Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor.
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Ch. 11 Ruling Voiding $2M Litigation Funding Sends A Warning
A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan.