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Transparency rules for funders in tort mass cases, and how funding affects the "business model" of plaintiff mass tort litigaiton
By Amanda Bronstad | December 12, 2018
Family members of 88 passengers who sued in U.S. courts will have to refile cases in Malaysia courts after a federal judge dismissed all 40 lawsuits.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 12, 2018
Family members of 88 passengers who sued in U.S. courts will have to refile cases in Malaysia courts after a federal judge dismissed all 40 lawsuits.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 12, 2018
Family members of 88 passengers who sued in U.S. courts will have to refile cases in Malaysia courts after a federal judge dismissed all 40 lawsuits.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 12, 2018
Consumer Education Foundation's Laura Antonini says the EU's incorporation of "the loser pays principle, together with the new prohibition on contingency fees" in its class action proposal "slams shut the courthouse doors" for plaintiffs bringing "legitimate" cases.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 10, 2018
A federal judge said he would break out prospective jurors during voir dire who knew about this year's $289 million verdict, according to a lawyer familiar with the decision.
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 7, 2018
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation refused to transfer class actions brought on behalf of 40 percent of the nation's opioid-addicted babies, concluding there would be “substantial overlap” with the opioid multidistrict litigation it created a year ago.
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By Michael Hoenig | December 7, 2018
Complex Litigation columnist Michael Hoenig writes: Somewhat unobtrusively, New York's highest court recently issued a decision in an asbestos case that has significant impact beyond asbestos litigation.
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By Amanda Bronstad | David Gialanella | December 7, 2018
Seeing fit to expand its target list to include lawmakers in addition to jurists, the tort-reform group known for issuing an annual report declaring certain jurisdictions "judicial hellholes" has taken to task the New Jersey Legislature for what it calls a pro-plaintiff series of measures, but offers some rare praise to the New Jersey Supreme Court,
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 6, 2018
Plaintiffs lawyers, however, consider the Cambridge Analytica scandal "the tip of the iceberg" in Facebook's "willful pursuit of generating revenue at the expense of its users.”
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By Amanda Bronstad | December 5, 2018
The suit, filed by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Edelson PC, is among the first class actions brought over California's wildfires last month.
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