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Regulation and litigation involving product recalls and defects.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 11, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has agreed to take up a bankruptcy involving the controversial "Texas two-step," potentially deciding the merger tactic's fate in future Chapter 11 cases. The opening brief is due July 10.
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By Colleen Murphy | June 6, 2024
The manufacturer and owner of the skincare product Bio-Oil have filed a federal lawsuit against Allure Beauty Shop, alleging that the owner sold counterfeit versions of their proprietary product, which infringed on and diluted their trademark and placed consumers at risk.
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 6, 2024
'For more than 50 years, people have studied whether there's a connection between baby powder, and its talc, and mesothelioma,' Johnson & Johnson attorney Collin Cox told jurors on Wednesday, according to Courtroom View Network's livestream. 'There isn't.'
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By Riley Brennan | May 31, 2024
In a dispute arising out of nonpayment for 1 million bottles of hand sanitizer to be delivered to Reach's customer, Five Below, the U.S. District Court of Minnesota granted summary judgment for brands in the amount of $89,072.64, and $185,000 for attorney fees for Felicia J. Boyd, a partner and head of IP brands, and Jaime Wing, a senior associate at Norton Rose Fulbright in Minneapolis. The Eighth Circuit reversed the attorney fee award.
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By Marianna Wharry | May 31, 2024
"It's a huge problem kids are suffering from with huge increases in hospitalizations and treatments, it is crushing and ruining kids' lives," Sarah R. London, partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, told Law.com. "[Providing] clear, unambiguous information for anyone to understand the risks of these products is essential. People are trying to get truth information so they can decide what to do when it comes to these products."
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By Riley Brennan | May 29, 2024
The firm that filed the suit is an active player in the consumer class action space. In this year alone the firm sued Kraft over alleged metal in Lunchables, AT&T over alleged data breach violations, Starbucks over its pricing of nondairy milk and Prime Hydration over its caffeine content.
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By ALM Staff | May 29, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
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By David E. Sellinger and Todd L. Schleifstein | May 28, 2024
"'Robey' represents the latest logical step in a trend of more strictly interpreting the ascertainable loss requirement," write David E. Sellinger and Todd L. Schleifstein of Greenberg Traurig.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 24, 2024
In a Wednesday letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Rukhsanah Singh, Jeffrey Pollock, an attorney for Beasley Allen, said Johnson & Johnson outside counsel Jim Murdica violated professional conduct rules by communicating with its talc client.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 23, 2024
An Illinois jury sided with pharmaceutical manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim in the first verdict in the Zantac litigation.
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