Retail & E-Commerce

  • October 02, 2025

    No Pay Owed To Flooring Co.'s Fired CEO, 11th Circ. Says

    The Eleventh Circuit won't revive a suit from the former CEO of flooring manufacturer Interface Inc. claiming he was bilked out of a severance package after allegedly going on a drunken tirade at a company function, ruling Thursday that the executive's appeal impermissibly tried to advance a new reading of his contract.

  • October 02, 2025

    Trade Court Remands Duties On Colombian Paper Bag Exporter

    The U.S. Department of Commerce must further explain why it rejected a level-of-trade adjustment for a Colombia paper bag exporter subject to antidumping duties, according to an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of International Trade that remanded the determination back to the government for reconsideration.

  • October 02, 2025

    Exec Says Beauty Co. Owes Her More After $1B L'Oreal Sale

    A beauty brand that L'Oreal bought for around $1 billion plans to share less of the proceeds with its president than what she is owed, according to an anticipatory breach of contract suit filed in Connecticut state court.

  • October 02, 2025

    Rust-Oleum Buyers' $1.5M Greenwashing Deal Gets Final OK

    A California federal judge on Thursday gave her final blessing to a $1.5 million settlement to a class of Rust-Oleum Corp. customers who accused the company of "greenwashing" its cleaning products with representations like "non-toxic" and "Earth Friendly," noting the deal provides significant monetary and nonmonetary benefits to the plaintiffs.

  • October 02, 2025

    Vaping Co. Escapes Fume 5% Nicotine Label Suit, For Now

    A Florida federal judge has tossed a proposed class action claiming that vape company QR Joy Inc. falsely advertises its Fume vaping products as having 5% nicotine when it is more than the amount in a combustible cigarette, saying it's a "shotgun" pleading.

  • October 02, 2025

    Oregon Cannabis Wholesaler Challenges Interstate Sales Ban

    An Oregon marijuana and hemp wholesaler alleged in a new federal lawsuit Wednesday that a state law prohibiting interstate sales of locally cultivated cannabis is unconstitutional.

  • October 02, 2025

    Yoga Biz Co-Owner Gets 2 Years For 8-Year, $2.3M Tax-Dodge

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced former Yoga to the People co-owner Michael Anderson to two years in prison Thursday, after the onetime yoga studio executive admitted failing to file tax returns for eight years as he earned some $3 million.

  • October 02, 2025

    Wis. E-Cig Law Treads On FDA's Turf, Vape Cos. Tell 7th Circ.

    A group of vaping interests is urging the Seventh Circuit to issue an order blocking enforcement of a new Wisconsin law prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes not approved by federal regulators, saying the district court was wrong in finding that the law is not preempted by the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

  • October 02, 2025

    National Security Vets, App-Devs Back Google In Epic Fight

    A group of former national security officials and scholars is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the district court injunction requiring Google to distribute third-party app stores and allow app developers to provide alternate payment links directly to users, saying the order creates serious national and cybersecurity risks.

  • October 02, 2025

    J&J Must Pay $10M In Punitive Damages After Asbestos Loss

    A Connecticut state court judge has hit Johnson & Johnson with $10 million in punitive damages after a jury sided with a builder who alleged the company's baby powder caused his terminal cancer, adding the amount to an existing $15 million verdict.

  • October 01, 2025

    Tyson Inks $85M Deal To Exit Consumers' Pork Antitrust Suit

    Pork consumers asked a Minnesota federal court Wednesday to greenlight an $85 million settlement resolving their claims against Tyson Foods Inc. in major antitrust litigation alleging pork producers conspired with data firm Agri Stats Inc. to inflate pork prices by limiting the supply in the U.S. market.

  • October 01, 2025

    USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. To Reject Ineligibility Rule Petition

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject a software company's argument that the office violated due process by rejecting challenges to patents a court has found ineligible, saying that decision is entirely in the office's discretion.

  • October 01, 2025

    Economist Says Google's Ad Tech Fix Enough To Boost Rivals

    Google's expert economics witness urged a Virginia federal judge Wednesday not to break up the search giant's advertising placement technology business, arguing the company's counterproposal would free up rivals without the "market reengineering" threatened by the Justice Department's proposed remedies.

  • October 01, 2025

    Squires Jumps Right Into Patent Eligibility Reform

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires used his first week at the agency to make bold statements about what should be eligible for patenting, with patent owners celebrating his support of diagnostics, crypto and machine learning technologies.

  • October 01, 2025

    Amazon Must Cough Up Return Records In Consumer Suit

    Amazon must hand over certain information about its returns system to a group of consumers who claim that the company wrongfully denied them refunds for products they sent back, a Washington federal judge has determined, calling some of the company's objections "evasive" and "borderline frivolous."

  • October 01, 2025

    Fashion E-Commerce Co. Beats Securities Suit

    A New York federal judge has tossed a proposed shareholder class action accusing fashion e-commerce company Farfetch Ltd. and its top brass of misleading investors about the company's prospects, finding that the complaint's claims were cursory and failed to allege knowledge of wrongdoing.

  • October 01, 2025

    Temu Antitrust Claims Nixed, Copyright Claims Get Go-Ahead

    Major fast fashion company Shein has convinced a D.C. federal judge to slim down a lawsuit brought by its main rival Temu, which accuses Shein of spamming it with copyright takedown requests.

  • October 01, 2025

    Inventor's $11M Award Slashed To $5M Over Pet Device IP

    A New Jersey federal judge has hit two pet supply companies with a $5 million damages bill for misappropriating a woman's idea for a skin medicine applicator for dogs and cats, more than four years after the Federal Circuit faulted the original $11 million award in the long-running case.

  • October 01, 2025

    LA Pot Cos. Kept Tips, Denied Breaks, Budtender Claims

    The owners of the Herbarium chain of dispensaries in Los Angeles fired a budtender after she spoke up about unpaid overtime, the lack of lunch breaks and stolen tips, according to a wrongful termination suit and a proposed class action she filed in state court.

  • October 01, 2025

    Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

    The Federal Trade Commission put the final tweaks on its deal allowing a $13.5 billion merger of marketing companies to move ahead and pushed its bid to block a merger in the medical device coatings industry, while U.K. enforcers launched a number of merger probes.

  • October 01, 2025

    AutoZone Prevails In Class Action Over 401(k) Fees

    AutoZone defeated a class action claiming it cost employees millions of dollars in retirement savings by failing to remove costly investment options from its 401(k) plan, with a Tennessee federal judge ruling the workers failed to show the company shirked its duties to monitor the plan.

  • October 01, 2025

    NY Judge Undoes Order Freeing NFL's Lions From IP Suit

    A New York federal judge has reversed an order that let the Detroit Lions football team out of a suit brought by a photographer who says the team modeled a statue of Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders on his photo.

  • October 01, 2025

    Calif. Importer, Son Both Get Prison For $8M Customs Fraud

    A California federal judge sentenced a Los Angeles Fashion District business owner and his son to more than eight years and seven years in prison, respectively, after they were found guilty of ducking more than $8 million in customs duties and failing to report over $17 million in cash transactions on tax returns.

  • October 01, 2025

    FCC Sets Furlough Plan In Motion With Government Shutdown

    The Federal Communications Commission's staff halted most regular operations Wednesday as Congress failed to reach a deal to continue funding agencies after the end of the government's fiscal year.

  • October 01, 2025

    Ex-Market Basket CEO Says Sisters, Board Plotted Ouster

    The former CEO of New England supermarket chain Market Basket on Wednesday accused his own sisters and the firm's board members of colluding to take control over the $8 billion-a-year company by setting up a "sham" investigation to justify his firing.

Expert Analysis

  • Compliance Lessons From 1st-Ever Product Safety Sentences

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    A California federal judge’s recent sentencing of two former Gree USA executives in a landmark Consumer Product Safety Act case serves as a reminder of the federal government’s willingness to pursue criminal prosecution of individuals who fail to report safety hazards, as well as companies’ need to strengthen their reporting and compliance programs, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • GENIUS Act Creates 'Commodity' Uncertainty For Stablecoins

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    Half a century ago, Congress made trading in onion futures on commodity exchanges unlawful, and payment stablecoins could soon face a similarly unstable fate in the markets as the GENIUS Act heads to the president's desk for signature, says Peter Malyshev at Cadwalader.

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    Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator

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    Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma

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    Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.

  • Challenging A Class Representative's Adequacy And Typicality

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    Recent cases highlight that a named plaintiff cannot certify a putative class action unless they can meet all the applicable requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so defendants should consider challenging a plaintiff's ability to meet typicality and adequacy requirements early and often, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

  • Opinion

    4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding

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    As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

  • What To Know About Bill Aiming To Curb CIPA

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    A bill pending in the California Assembly would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act to allow for the use of website tracking technologies for commercial business purposes, limiting class actions seeking damages under the act for industry standard practices, say Katherine Alphonso and Avazeh Pourhamzeh at Kaufman Dolowich.

  • How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery

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    E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.

  • Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures

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    With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Series

    Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.

  • DOJ Enforcement Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

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    Recent investigations, settlements and a declination to prosecute suggest that controlling the flow of goods into and out of the country, and redressing what the administration sees as reverse discrimination, are likely to be at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement agenda the rest of this year, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

  • Series

    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

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    In the second quarter of the year, New York utilized every available tool to fill gaps left by federal retrenchment from consumer finance issues, including sweeping updates to its consumer protection framework and notable amendments to cybersecurity rules, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • State, Fed Junk Fee Enforcement Shows No Signs Of Slowing

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    The Federal Trade Commission’s potent new rule targeting drip pricing, in addition to the growing patchwork of state consumer protection laws, suggest that enforcement and litigation targeting junk fees will likely continue to expand, says Etia Rottman Frand at Darrow AI.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care

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    Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.

  • What Expanding Merchant Code Regs Mean For Processors

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    Arkansas and South Dakota recently joined a host of other states that restrict payment processors' usage of merchant category codes with laws that include noteworthy prohibitions against maintaining registries of firearms owners, with ramifications for multistate payment systems, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

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