Class Action
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A handful of tech companies launched a proposed class action against Facebook on Thursday in California federal court, alleging the social media giant intentionally set out to destroy app developers it deemed as potential rivals in “the most brazen, willful anti-competitive scheme in a generation”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Fifth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that a lower court was right to refuse to take up BP PLC’s challenge to Walmart’s bid to collect $15 million from a settlement program linked to the 2010 explosion and spill aboard BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico… Read this piece in its entirety
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A Seventh Circuit panel on Tuesday swept aside a “flurry of arguments” made by Johnson & Johnson in its unsuccessful bid to convince the court to throw out a $20 million judgment in favor of a woman who claimed she was harmed by the company’s Prolift pelvic mesh device… Read this piece in its entirety
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A split Ninth Circuit panel said Monday that Williams-Sonoma doesn’t have to disclose a list of its California customers in a proposed class action claiming the company misled customers about the thread count of its bedding, with the dissenting judge calling his colleagues’ ruling “unnecessary”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Washington federal court did nothing wrong when it trimmed the attorney fees sought by a class of James Bond fans after they settled claims MGM and Fox had lied about the contents of a box set of the spy movies, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday in a published opinion… Read this piece in its
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