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Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Michael Booth | June 12, 2017
A federal judge has dismissed a putative class action against clothing company J. Crew Group Inc. claiming the company issued receipts that were too revealing.
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By Samantha Joseph | June 12, 2017
A class action lawsuit filed in Fort Lauderdale alleges a company used lead-scraping software to send unsolicited text messages to real estate professionals.
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By B. Colby Hamilton | June 9, 2017
An antitrust suit filed in the Southern District Thursday seeks to push major financial institutions toward greater transparency in the credit default swap market, potentially opening the door to more investor litigation in the space.
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By Kristen Rasmussen | June 7, 2017
A Long Island physician is using a novel defense against federal prosecutors accusing him of overprescribing narcotic painkillers: The drug manufacturers are responsible.
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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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