Once again, the question of corporate liability for alleged human rights abuses is being teed up for possible appellate review.

Co-lead plaintiffs counsel Michael Hausfeld of Hausfeld LLP says plaintiffs have now recovered more than $433.9 million from 11 defendants in the litigation.

Mortgage-backed securities plaintiffs scored their fourth securities class action settlement since the start of the financial crisis on Monday. But the deal with Deutsche Bank is also the smallest yet.

With discovery well underway in the massive New Orleans tort litigation over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, securities class action plaintiffs in the separate Houston MDL over the spill say they're being sidelined from deposing key witnesses.

Here's another tale of securities class action lawyers attempting to make lemonade from the lemons the Supreme Court threw at them in Morrison v. NAB. Unfortunately for the plaintiffs bar, the story has an all-too-familiar ending.

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