Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Joseph M. McLaughlin and Yafit Cohn | June 7, 2017
In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Yafit Cohn discuss the recent Second Circuit decision in 'Whalen v. Michaels Stores', in which the court held that the plaintiff in that consumer data breach action did not allege injury sufficient to satisfy the constitutional standing requirement.
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By Cogan Schneier | June 7, 2017
Sessions said DOJ attorneys may no longer enter settlement agreements on behalf of the nation that direct or provide “for a payment or loan to any non-governmental person or entity that is not a party to the dispute.”
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 6, 2017
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh awarded $13.8 million to the firms who negotiated a $150 million settlement with The Walt Disney Co. and DreamWorks on behalf of animators and engineers.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 5, 2017
The employee retirement plans of religious-affiliated nonprofits are exempt from the protections and requirements of the federal pension law, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The decision was a blow to multimillion-dollar class actions that seek to hold those plans liable for violating the federal law.
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By Charles Toutant | June 2, 2017
A federal judge in Newark has denied challenges from plaintiffs' and defense attorneys to expert witnesses who offered opinion evidence on how to verify individual claims and to calculate damages in claims over alleged mislabeling of orange juice.
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 1, 2017
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, presiding over his first MDL, will be handling dozens of claims that FieldTurf USA's astroturf doesn't last its guaranteed life span.
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By Jenna Greene | May 31, 2017
Of all the injustices crying out to be righted, slack fill ranks pretty low. But that hasn't stopped plaintiffs lawyers from bringing a flurry of cases against food and drug companies for under-filling their packaging, leaving empty, non-functional “slack fill” space. But not all cases are created equal.
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By Jenna Greene | May 29, 2017
When a lawsuit involves an antitrust conspiracy with nearly $1 billion on the line, when the case has been covered by media including ABC News, Time Magazine and the Associated Press, when it involves the epitome of a sexy topic—cheerleaders for god's sake—that's not usually when a federal judge will urge counsel to let junior associates have a crack at oral argument.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 24, 2017
The May 23 settlement came after a multi-state investigation led by the Connecticut and Illinois Attorneys General Offices.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 22, 2017
An app that allows riders to report incidents on the transit system is also collecting a trove of data on its users' whereabouts, according to a new suit from Edelson PC.
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