Class Action

  • September 19, 2024

    Judge Gives Dow Jones Win In Article Thievery Case

    A Texas federal judge has handed a win to publisher Dow Jones & Co. in a copyright infringement suit accusing an investment manager of wrongfully copying and distributing thousands of news articles from The Wall Street Journal.

  • September 19, 2024

    Amazon, Bezos Deny Blue Origin Deal Challenges In Del.

    An Amazon.com stockholder suit seeking damages from the e-commerce giant for purportedly conflicted dealing with company founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space launch business can't get off the ground in Delaware's Court of Chancery, attorneys for the Amazon parties argued in a new brief filed late Wednesday.

  • September 19, 2024

    No Coverage For Santander Shareholder Suit, Allianz Says

    Allianz told a Massachusetts federal court that it doesn't owe coverage to Santander Holdings for an underlying class action brought by shareholders over the company's $2.5 billion deal to take its consumer finance entity private, arguing that multiple exclusions bar coverage for claims arising from the transaction.

  • September 19, 2024

    Cleaning Co., H-2B Workers Nab Final OK For $400K Deal

    A Colorado federal judge granted final approval Thursday to a $400,000 settlement that resolves claims from migrant housekeepers who accused a cleaning contractor of committing a variety of wage and visa law violations and threatening to deport workers who complained.

  • September 18, 2024

    PureCycle Investors Seek Final OK Of $12M Settlement

    Investors in plastic recycling company PureCycle have asked a Florida federal judge to grant final approval to a $12 million deal to end a proposed class action alleging the company misled shareholders about its technology, financial projections and access to raw materials, roughly two years after the court temporarily tossed it for being imprecise.

  • September 18, 2024

    GM Beats Class Suit Alleging Piston Ring Defects

    General Motors LLC has beat a class action accusing it of selling vehicles with faulty engines that consume too much oil, as a Colorado federal judge determined that the drivers couldn't prove a defect now that their expert witness is disqualified.

  • September 18, 2024

    Wynn Resorts To Pay Investors $70M Over Misconduct Claims

    Wynn Resorts, its former CEO Stephen Wynn and others have reached a $70 million settlement in Nevada federal court to end an investor class action accusing the hotel and casino giant of deceiving shareholders by covering up allegations of Wynn's sexual misconduct, according to a Tuesday filing.

  • September 18, 2024

    9th Circ. Won't Revive Gas Price-Fixing Suit Over Trump Pact

    The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging price fixing between major oil producers as part of the Trump Administration's 2020 deal with Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut production, saying that subjecting the pact to judicial review would be inappropriately "second-guessing" executive branch foreign policy.

  • September 18, 2024

    $24.5M Fee Sought In Del. For $125M Discovery Suit Deal

    Class attorneys who secured a proposed $125 million settlement in a Delaware Court of Chancery suit filed by former Discovery Inc. stockholders challenging the company's $43 billion merger with AT&T in April 2022 proposed a $24.5 million fee for their efforts Wednesday.

  • September 18, 2024

    BIPA Doesn't Conflict With Kids Safety Law, Judge Rules

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday rejected Meta's bid to dismiss a biometric privacy class action alleging it improperly stored Messenger and Messenger Kids users' facial geometries to apply bunny-ear and other filters, finding a federal child privacy law does not preempt the suit.

  • September 18, 2024

    Meta Ditches Investor Suit Over Apple Ad Changes For Good

    A California federal judge on Tuesday tossed an investor suit against Meta alleging the tech giant hid the financial impact of Apple's privacy changes on its business, finding the suit's allegations weren't detailed enough to avoid dismissal.

  • September 18, 2024

    Pa. Jury Clears SeaWorld-Owned Park In Race Bias Trial

    A Pennsylvania jury on Wednesday freed SeaWorld's Philadelphia-area park Sesame Place of claims that minority children endured discrimination by costumed performers who were accused of ignoring them during character parades.

  • September 18, 2024

    Telecom Co. PLDT Gets Final OK For $3M Investor Settlement

    A California federal judge has given final approval to a $3 million deal settling investor allegations that Philippine telecommunications company PLDT Inc. hid an $866 million budget overrun, giving class counsel a $750,000 cut of the deal.

  • September 18, 2024

    Harvard Rips Morgue Theft Appeal's Immunity Claim

    Harvard University told Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court that litigation over the alleged theft and sale of cadaver body parts from its medical school's morgue relies on a "crabbed" reading of an immunity law related to anatomical gifts.

  • September 18, 2024

    NCAA Must Give Up Control To Reach Suitable NIL Settlement

    The date set by a California federal judge for the NCAA and the athletes suing it over name, image and likeness compensation to iron out issues with their proposed $2.78 billion settlement is fast approaching, and according to experts, a rational solution that would satisfy the two sides and the law might not exist.

  • September 18, 2024

    New Hampshire Residents Push To Save PFOA Class Action

    A class of New Hampshire residents seeking to hold the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. liable for the contamination of their properties with a toxic forever chemical is fighting the company's bid for summary judgment.

  • September 18, 2024

    UnitedHealth Settles 401(k) Fight Over Wells Fargo Funds

    UnitedHealth has agreed to settle a class action from workers alleging the company mismanaged an employee 401(k) plan by loading it with lower-performing investment options to preserve a business relationship with Wells Fargo, according to documents filed Wednesday in Minnesota federal court.

  • September 18, 2024

    Ex-Gunster Client Says Firm Can't Shake Data Breach Suit

    A former client urged a Florida federal court Tuesday to reject a bid from Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA to toss a proposed class action related to a data breach in 2022.

  • September 18, 2024

    Thermo Fisher Late To Pay Departing Workers, Engineer Says

    Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and a subsidiary failed to promptly pay all final wages and unused vacation time to departing employees and must now cough up three times the amount of that compensation because of its violation of Massachusetts law, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.

  • September 18, 2024

    Data Brokers Say NJ Judicial Privacy Law Goes Too Far

    A group of data brokers accused of violating the New Jersey judicial privacy measure Daniel's Law has doubled down on its argument to a federal court that the law cannot survive strict constitutional scrutiny and must be thrown out.

  • September 18, 2024

    Biotech Co. Escapes Stock-Drop Suit Over COVID-19 Drug

    A Massachusetts biotech company won dismissal Wednesday from a proposed class action by investors who say their shares tanked in value after it allegedly came to light that executives had falsely touted an unproven prospective COVID-19 medicine.

  • September 18, 2024

    9th Circ. Breathes New Life Into Swimmers' Boycott Suit

    The Ninth Circuit has revived a class action from the International Swimming League and a trio of competitive swimmers accusing the sport's global governing body of orchestrating a de facto boycott of the upstart league, overruling a district court that threw out the case.

  • September 18, 2024

    Citgo Settles Retirees' Suit Over Outdated Mortality Data

    Citgo struck a deal to settle a class action alleging it shorted retirees in early retirement payouts by basing the allowances on outdated mortality tables that used data from the 1970s, according to a joint notice filed in Illinois federal court.

  • September 17, 2024

    Police Pension Fund Says Store Chain Inflated Stock Price

    Discount retailer Five Below is facing securities class claims in Pennsylvania federal court from a Florida police officers' pension fund, which says the company falsely attributed poor financial performance to inventory shrinkage while concealing deeper operational issues, causing substantial investor losses.

  • September 17, 2024

    Benefit Funds Sue Sandoz Over Alleged Fraudulent Transfers

    Several health and welfare funds have filed a class action against Sandoz Inc. and affiliates in Pennsylvania federal court, alleging the drugmaker engaged in fraudulent transfers designed to evade liabilities stemming from drug-pricing antitrust litigation.

Expert Analysis

  • Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility

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    The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools

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    A comparison of traditional algorithmic pricing models and those powered by generative artificial intelligence can help regulators and practitioners weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models to price products or services, say Maxime Cohen at McGill University, and Tim Spittle and Jimmy Royer at Analysis Group.

  • New Employer Liability Risks In Old Ill. Genetic Privacy Law

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    Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act has been litigated very sparsely, but two recent federal court decisions — Taylor v. Union Pacific and McKnight v. United Airlines — holding that preemployment family medical history questions violated the 1998 law may encourage more lawsuits, say Peter Berk and Madison Shepley at Clark Hill.

  • DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • Opinion

    3rd. Circ. Got It Right On Cancer Warning Claims Preemption

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    The Third Circuit's recent, eminently sensible ruling in a failure-to-warn case against Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act preempts state law claims, provides a road map that other courts should adopt, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation.

  • Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent

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    A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions

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    Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.

  • Employers Should Not Neglect Paid Military Leave Compliance

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    An August decision from the Ninth Circuit and the settlement of a long-running class action, both examining paid leave requirements under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, are part of a nationwide trend that should prompt employers to review their military leave policies to avoid potential litigation and reputational damage, says Bradford Kelley at Littler.

  • Unpacking Jurisdiction Issues In 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

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    The Third Circuit's recent ruling in George v. Rushmore Service Center could be interpreted to establish three principles regarding district courts' jurisdiction to enter arbitration-related orders under the Federal Arbitration Act, two of which may lead to confusion, says David Cinotti at Pashman Stein.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings

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    Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

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