Sun Pharmaceuticals has agreed to a $200 million settlement with a class of consumers who claim that the company joined other generics makers in fixing drug prices.
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Sun Pharma Settles Consumer Price Fixing Case For $200M

By Jared Foretek

Sun Pharmaceuticals has agreed to a $200 million settlement with a class of consumers who claim that the company joined other generics makers in fixing drug prices.

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Phillips 66's $12.5M Class Wage Deal Gets 1st OK In Calif.

By Gina Kim

A class of about 1,750 current and former Phillips 66 employees working at its San Francisco and Los Angeles refineries received preliminary approval by a California federal judge Thursday of a $12.5 million settlement resolving allegations they weren't given breaks or compensated for donning and doffing personal protective equipment off-the-clock.

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Lincoln National Beats Investor Suit Over $2.6B Loss, For Now

By Dorothy Atkins

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday tossed with leave to amend a proposed securities class action alleging that Lincoln National Corp. misled investors about its financial health before reporting a $2.6 billion net loss in 2022, finding that the investors didn't specify when Lincoln National had access to certain data and studies.

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Chancery OKs $12.75M Settlement In MoneyLion SPAC Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

Saying parts of the deal "reflect a poster-child scenario for the problems and malincentives associated with the de-SPAC form," a Delaware vice chancellor on Thursday approved a $12.75 million settlement in a stockholder suit challenging a take-public deal for digital finance platform MoneyLion.

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'May The Flow Be With You': Meta Team Made Menstrual Jokes

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Meta legal vice president defending the company in a California federal trial over allegations it illegally gathers users' data from menstrual-tracking app Flo acknowledged Thursday that members of Meta's communications team made "inappropriate" menstruation-related jokes while discussing the issue, with one employee telling another: "May the flow be with you."

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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

Boeing Hit With Disability Bias Suit Over Bonus Exclusion

By Emily Brill

Boeing employees on long-term disability leave missed out on a $12,000 bonus distributed after workers ratified a union contract in September, a new proposed class action alleges, claiming that limits on who qualified for the bonus violated Washington state discrimination law.

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Hospital Must Face Claims Of Mismanaging Retirement Funds

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge on Thursday said a proposed class action will continue against a hospital over allegations of mismanaging employees' retirement funds after an amended complaint added new allegations about the fund's mismanagement.

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Naval Engineers In No-Poach Suit Hint At New Named Plaintiff

By Jared Foretek

A proposed class of naval engineers suing the nation's major military shipbuilders and contractors over an alleged no-poach wage-fixing scheme may have a new named plaintiff to bring to the case.

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SECURITIES

Fluor Investor Attys Awarded $2.4M For Derivative Suit Deal

By Katryna Perera

A Texas federal judge on Thursday awarded $2.4 million in attorney fees and expenses in a settlement that resolved a derivative suit against the top brass of Fluor Corp. over claims that executives covered up the engineering and construction giant's improper bidding practices for years and caused billions of dollars in losses to the company.

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Luminar CEO's Resignation Sparks Investor Suit

By Sydney Price

Laser sensor company Luminar Technologies Inc., its ex-CEO and chief financial officer were hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging that they failed to inform investors that its highest officer was engaging in conduct that made him subject to an inquiry by an audit committee, leading to his resignation in May.

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Judge Says UiPath Investors Disappointed, Not Deceived

By Benjamin Morse

Automation software firm UiPath Inc. has, for now, defeated a consolidated investor suit accusing it of falsely touting the success of a new development strategy, after a federal judge said that security laws do not shield against bad outcomes and investors did not plausibly allege material misstatements or fraudulent intent.

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Intel Secures Final Toss Of Investor Suit Over Chip Struggles

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has permanently tossed a twice-amended complaint from Intel Corp. investors that alleged the company concealed struggles with expanding its domestic computer chip manufacturing, saying the investors failed to properly plead that any of the suit's challenged statements were false or misleading.

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JBS S.A. Sued In Del. Over Pilgrim's Pride Control Moves

By Jeff Montgomery

Pension fund stockholders of poultry industry giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp. have sued Brazil-based meat giant JBS S.A., its affiliates and its Pilgrim's board appointees in Delaware's Court of Chancery, alleging actions that unfairly increased JBS' clout and access to dividends and tax benefits at minority shareholder expense.

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COMPETITION

Commission Inflation Suit Spurs COVID Tolling Query In Conn.

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut judge on Thursday questioned a real estate firm's argument that two antitrust suit plaintiffs misused a COVID-era executive order to enter the case after the statute of limitations would have expired, indicating she was concerned about the broad impact her ruling might have if she found the pandemic-era tolling unconstitutional.

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PRODUCT LIABILITY

Bellwether Plaintiffs Want Redo Of GE Pollution Trial

By Mike Curley

The plaintiffs in a bellwether pollution suit against General Electric Co. and a former subsidiary are asking for a new trial, arguing the jury should not have been able to find in the subsidiary's favor after it had admitted to responsibility in prior court filings.

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Conn. Water Cos. Want Judge To Toss Customer PFAS Cases

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Water Co. and Aquarion Water Co. on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to dismiss two consumer proposed class actions seeking cash damages for tap water allegedly contaminated with PFAS "forever chemicals," arguing the case should have been first considered by a state regulatory agency.

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CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACY

Roblox Wants To Escape Suit Alleging It Tracked Kids' Data

By Joyce Hanson

A lawsuit accusing Roblox of harvesting users' personal data despite knowing many of them are under the age of 13 is an attempt to distort and weaponize privacy statutes, the online gaming platform has told a California federal judge in a bid to have the case dismissed.

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Ex-UMich Coach Must Answer Hacking Claims By Sept. 2

By Danielle Ferguson

A former University of Michigan football coach told a federal judge Thursday that he wasn't trying to delay civil cases alleging he hacked thousands of female student-athletes' personal information, as the judge rejected his request to give him more time than other defendants to respond to the allegations.

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IP & TECHNOLOGY

Logan Paul's Bid In CryptoZoo Suit Not Yet Ripe, Judge Says

By Aislinn Keely

Media personality Logan Paul shouldn't be able to pin the collapse of his CryptoZoo project on the "empty chairs" of his co-founders for the time being, a Texas magistrate judge has counseled.

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INSURANCE

7th Circ. Erases Class Cert. Over Progressive's Car Valuation

By Ganesh Setty

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday reversed a policyholder's class certification win against Progressive Insurance over certain adjustments the insurer makes when calculating a totaled vehicle's actual cash value, finding that whether Progressive paid insureds the proper amount is a primarily individualized inquiry.

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REAL ESTATE

Magistrate Says DR Horton Refused To Hear Accessibility Ask

By Nate Beck

A magistrate judge in Texas federal court endorsed claims that homebuilder D.R. Horton refused to consider adding accessibility features to single-family houses under construction, while finding another claim brought by three plaintiffs and a fair housing group is reserved only for multifamily properties.

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SPORTS & BETTING

Swimmers Cut Deal In Antitrust Case Against Governing Body

By Matthew Perlman

Professional swimmers have reached a settlement ending their claims accusing the sport's international governing body of organizing a group boycott against an upstart league, while the league's antitrust claims against the governing body remain set for a January trial.

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PEOPLE

Seyfarth Shaw Employment Atty Jumps To Akerman In LA

By James Mills

Akerman LLP is boosting its employment team, bringing in a Seyfarth Shaw LLP class action litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Rule 23 Class Certification Matters In Settlements, Too

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. CASA Inc. highlighted requirements for certifying classes for litigation in federal court, but counsel must also understand how Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure may affect certifying classes for settlement purposes, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training

A California federal court’s recent ruling that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Series

Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Butler Snow Attys DQ'd For Fake AI Citations In Prisoner Case

By Emily Sawicki

Three Butler Snow LLP attorneys have been publicly reprimanded and removed from representing the former commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections in an incarcerated man's federal civil rights case, after a judge found they had filed motions including "hallucinations" generated by ChatGPT.

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Ky. Clerk Seeks To Overturn Marriage Equality Ruling

By Danielle Ferguson

A Kentucky clerk who made international headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses in protest of the legalization of same-sex marriage asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn its 2015 marriage equality decision after she unsuccessfully tried to shake a civil judgment against her.

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Q&A

'Tiger King' Atty Talks Building A Firm Through Social Media

By Parker Quinlan

Hours after a federal jury in Manhattan returned a mixed verdict in a sex trafficking case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, Molly Parmer, a Georgia defense attorney and TikTok content creator with more than 94,200 followers, posted a video outlining what he could expect in terms of sentencing. Law360 spoke with Parmer about her practice and how she turned her solo firm, Parmer Law, into a space for online court observers.

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Analysis

AI Rollout At USPTO Has Attys Foreseeing Stronger Patents

By Ryan Davis

As the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office incorporates more use of artificial intelligence in patent examination, attorneys predict the technology could lead to stronger patents in the future, especially for designs, though it may make the process more challenging for applicants.

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Alina Habba Says She Is Now Acting US Atty In NJ

By Lauren Berg

Alina Habba posted on social media Thursday that she is now the acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, two days after the federal district court declined to extend her tenure in the interim position.

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Trump Admin Sues NYC To Block Sanctuary Policies

By Rae Ann Varona

The Trump administration on Thursday filed suit in New York federal court seeking to bar New York City from enforcing policies it alleges amount to "intentional sabotage" of federal immigration enforcement and thus violate the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause.

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DOJ Sentence Ask In Breonna Taylor Case Shows Policy Shift

By Parker Quinlan

Although the request by top U.S. Department of Justice officials seeking a one-day sentence for a former Louisville police officer who participated in the raid that led to Breonna Taylor's death wasn't heeded, former federal prosecutors and defense attorneys say a government request to downgrade a sentence is unusual, but likely to recur in politically relevant matters.

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Jeanine Pirro's Nomination Advances To Full Senate

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out seven U.S. attorney nominations Thursday, which include Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host and New York state judge, and four others who had to be revoted on after Democrats walked out of last week's meeting over objections to how the consideration of controversial Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove was being handled.

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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Wins Bid To Arbitrate Malpractice Claim

By Lynn LaRowe

Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Autry PC won a Texas state appellate decision Thursday forcing a former client to arbitrate his claims that the firm's alleged malpractice over a business restructuring ultimately cost him millions in a divorce.

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High Court Hits Pause On 8th Circ. Voting Rights Order

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday paused an Eighth Circuit order to vacate two North Dakota tribes' challenge to two of the state's voting laws that they allege will silence the state's Indigenous voters and disenfranchise millions across seven Midwestern states.

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NJ Attys Warn RICO Case Revival Would 'Chill' Lawyering

By George Woolston

The New Jersey State Bar Association told a Garden State appellate court that lawyers across the state will be chilled from zealously advocating for their clients if it revives the state's racketeering indictment against two politically connected attorneys, making it the second attorney advocacy group to file a proposed amicus curiae brief in the case.

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Ex-Calif. Judge Says 'Trying To Do Too Much' Led To Backlog

By Emily Sawicki

A former California state appellate justice said health problems and a strong work ethic harmed his ability to handle his caseload quickly, leading to delays in hundreds of cases that precipitated ethics charges, telling a watchdog he "can only be faulted for trying to do too much under the circumstances."

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Brief

Senate Tees Up Vote On Emil Bove To 3rd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-48 on Thursday to tee up the confirmation of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit, which will likely happen next week.

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Carney Bates

Chamberlain Hrdlicka

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Cohen Milstein

Cooper & Kirk

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Crowell & Moring

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Davis Polk

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Dechert LLP

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Edelsberg Law

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

American College of Trial Lawyers

American International Group Inc.

Anthropic PBC

Aquarion Water Co. Inc.

Baker Hughes Co.

Bollinger Shipyards Inc.

Boston University

Broadhaven Capital Partners

CACI International Inc.

CBS Interactive Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

China Automotive Systems Inc.

D.R. Horton Inc.

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Fluor Corp.

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General Dynamics Corp.

General Electric Co.

Google LLC

Halliburton Co.

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Intel Corp.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lincoln National Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Luminar Technologies Inc.

M & F Worldwide Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Mitchell International Inc.

National Association of Realtors

Native American Rights Fund Inc.

Netflix Inc.

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York Immigration Coalition

Phillips 66

Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Planned Parenthood Federation

PowerSchool Group LLC

Roblox Corp.

SCL Health

Salesforce.com Inc.

Sandoz International GmbH

Serco Group PLC

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Boeing Co.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Michaels Organization

The Progressive Corp.

TikTok Inc.

William Raveis Real Estate Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

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Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Supreme Court

North Dakota Attorney General's Office

Spirit Lake Tribe

Texas Supreme Court

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians

U.S. Attorney's Office

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U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

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U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

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U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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