By Michael A. Mora | June 20, 2023
"I owned a total of 4,000 Voyager tokens and sold a total of about 400 tokens," said Mark Cuban, a defendant in the Voyager Digital Ltd. class action. "So the concept of insider trading, particularly when there's no conversation with the CEO around that time, is ridiculous."
By Amanda Bronstad | June 20, 2023
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Avalon Zoppo | June 13, 2023
Appeals court nixes $1.7 million fee award for $52,841.05 recovery in music composition holders' settlement with streaming service.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 12, 2023
On Friday, the jury reached its verdict, which Mulnomah County Circuit Court Judge Steffan Alexander read on Monday. The trial moves to a second phase of punitive damages, which could reach $15 billion when including the entire class.
By Jane Wester | June 12, 2023
The agreement, for a sum not immediately disclosed, comes three weeks after Deutsche Bank reached a $75 million settlement with Epstein victims in a separate proposed class action concerning that bank's work for the disgraced late financier.
By Christine Schiffner | June 9, 2023
The Chicago-headquartered plaintiffs firm has added 26 new team members over the last year while emphasizing its commitment to DE&I. The firm is also trying to leverage AI as an internal and external collaboration tool.
By Charles Toutant | June 6, 2023
The eight class actions filed in New Jersey from May 29 to June 4 represent the biggest one-week crop of filings in 2023, breaking the previous record of six class actions filed the week of April 24.
By Michael A. Mora | Amanda Bronstad | June 5, 2023
"A significant part of FTX's conduct allegedly emanated from this district, where it had its U.S. headquarters before filing for bankruptcy," the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled.
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By Adam J. Levitt | June 5, 2023
Product defect class actions, latent defects, and Article III standing.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 2, 2023
DuPont agreed to a $1.185 billion settlement involving toxic chemicals that includes a case brought by the city of Stuart, Florida, that begins trial on Monday. 3M remains in that trial, the first bellwether in multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foams.
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