Class Action
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Consumers who blamed Carrier Corp. and related companies for an allegedly faulty valve in their heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems lost another attempt to pursue their claims as a class action Monday, after a California federal judge said the cases need individual scrutiny… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. on Wednesday escaped a lawsuit claiming the sweets maker tricked consumers into thinking its cocoa-free white baking chips actually contained chocolate, with a California federal judge saying reasonable consumers wouldn’t have been bamboozled by the product’s packaging… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Germ-X can’t protect against the coronavirus, but the company that makes the popular hand sanitizer has falsely claimed that it can fight off the headline-grabbing pathogen and certain other disease-causing germs, according to a proposed class action in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered the initiation of a fourth “wave” of multidistrict litigation over alleged defects in the ignition switches of some General Motors vehicles, pointing to the “remarkable success” of the so-called wave approach in handling the sprawling MDL… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California’s new consumer privacy law made an appearance in a proposed class action filed in Oakland federal court that accuses children’s clothing company Hanna Andersson and its online payment services provider Salesforce of failing to properly safeguard customers’ sensitive data… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 