Law
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Northrop Grumman inked a $12.4 million settlement deal Monday with employees who claimed the defense giant’s 401(k) plan betrayed workers by using a costly management strategy for a risky investment fund, wrapping up a 13-year legal fight… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig launched what he called a “clickbait defamation” action against The New York Times on Monday in Massachusetts federal court, claiming an article in the newspaper falsely implied he defended the notion of taking charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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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 federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas handed down a $102 million verdict against Wells Fargo on Friday, marking the second time in recent months that a jury has found the bank willfully infringed mobile deposit patents owned by the United Services Automobile Association… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The New York Attorney General’s Office said Friday that it will not appeal Exxon Mobil Corp.’s bench trial win last month in a state court case accusing the energy behemoth of deceiving investors about climate change-related risks to its business… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 