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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 Kevin Freking | July 12, 2017
Republican lawmakers have overturned more than a dozen regulations issued under President Barack Obama. Now, they're looking to do the same to a rule that would let consumers band together to sue their banks or credit card companies rather than use a mediator to resolve a dispute.
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By Scott Flaherty | July 12, 2017
The plaintiffs firm's unique team of lawyers, engineers and computer science experts can deconstruct devices and apps to determine whether there are privacy or data security concerns.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 11, 2017
With the finances of disgraced Fyre Festival concert promoter Billy McFarland very much in question, major investors in the concert-turned-fiasco are facing unexpected scrutiny and potential liability for the money lost.
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By Jenna Greene | July 10, 2017
In one of the more surreal actions to come out of Trump-era Washington, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday finalized a rule that bars banks, credit card issuers and the like from using arbitration clauses—the ones buried in the fine print of hundreds of millions of contracts—to block class actions.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | July 7, 2017
The litigation tsunami continues as another bellwether ignition defect case against General Motors heads to trial Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York before Judge Jesse Furman.
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By Michael Hoenig | July 7, 2017
In his Complex Litigation column, Michael Hoenig analyzes the Supreme Court's recent decisions on general and specific jurisdiction, which must be regarded by litigators and courts as pivotal rulings going to the heart of a state court's ability to adjudicate a case.
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By Samantha Joseph | July 6, 2017
A reversal in a tobacco case that turned on questions of addiction and motivation.
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By Max Mitchell | July 6, 2017
The class suing Bucks County over its searchable database of former inmates won't be able to recover compensatory damages, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to seek punitive damages, a federal appeals court has ruled in a case that appeared to address an issue of first impression for the circuit.
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By Charles Toutant | July 6, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2016 holding in that a technical violation of a statute is insufficient to establish Article III standing does not preclude a suit over a potential disclosure of information by barcodes on debt collection letters, a federal judge in Newark has ruled.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 6, 2017
Lawyers who sued Volkswagen over its diesel emissions scandal could end up with a pretty good return on their investment: After being awarded $175 million in fees and costs, they are asking for an additional $125 million – and it appears there's a good chance they'll get it.
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