Consumer Protection
-
Attorneys representing banks and other financial institutions that sued over Home Depot’s 2014 data breach won a $15.2 million fee award on Friday after the Eleventh Circuit nixed an earlier award and asked the Georgia federal court that handled the case to take another look. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
-
Home Depot lost a bid to nix a proposed class action claiming the retailer failed to warn buyers that Roundup weedkiller contained an ingredient that causes cancer when a California federal judge ruled Tuesday that Home Depot’s dismissal request wrongly relied on outside information… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
-
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
-
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.
-
The U.S. federal government filed an amicus brief Friday at the Ninth Circuit backing arguments made by Bayer AG, which is seeking to overturn a $25 million verdict in favor of a man who claims the weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 