Consumer Protection
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Walmart’s shoddy digital security practices led to the exposure of sensitive personal data belonging to an untold number of customers, including the lead plaintiff in a proposed class action in California federal court, who said he found his information for sale on the dark web… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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GlaxoSmithKline is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to upend a Third Circuit ruling in a case over the marketing of the diabetes medication Avandia, saying the appeals court had taken an “impossibly capricious view” of the drug company’s duty to provide information to regulators… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A handful of major real estate companies were sued Wednesday in Maryland federal court over allegations they systematically discriminated against older residents in the Washington, D.C., area by targeting housing ads on Facebook to a young customer base… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday threw out part of a lawsuit alleging BMW and Robert Bosch LLC violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by installing emissions-cheating software in vehicles, while keeping alive car buyers’ state law claims… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Consumers who accused a Wisconsin-based biotechnology company of lying about the effects of its Prevagen memory supplement asked a Florida federal court on Wednesday to approve a settlement to resolve the claims in that case and a half-dozen others, encompassing up to 3 million buyers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 