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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 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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By Jenna Greene | May 19, 2017
A team from Kirkland & Ellis led by partner Craig Primis persuaded a federal judge in New York to toss a pair of suits alleging that Facebook Inc. supports terrorist organizations by allowing the groups to use its platform.
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By Jenna Greene | May 19, 2017
It was a one-two punch for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett litigator Joseph McLaughlin, who racked up a pair of wins this week.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 19, 2017
Plaintiffs who have been removed to federal court can't slip out by amending pleadings in ways intended to defeat federal jurisdiction, the court ruled in a 2-1 decision.
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