Law
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Dan Aykroyd’s vodka company launched a new lawsuit on Monday in Illinois federal court alleging a Mexican tequila maker and its U.S. distributor knocked off the Aykroyd company’s iconic head-shaped bottle, after the actor and comedy legend recently scored a win in a similar case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Whirlpool Corp. has hammered out a deal worth an estimated $21 million that aims to resolve a proposed class action over allegedly defective refrigerators, according to filings Monday in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday told a California federal judge that Volkswagen AG was partly to blame for the lengthy time period between the revelation of the German automaker’s emissions scandal and the agency’s filing of its suit against the company… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ohio law firm Bevan & Associates LPA Inc. won a challenge to a state law prohibiting solicitation for workers’ compensation claims when the Sixth Circuit said on Monday that the ban “is repugnant to the free speech clause of the First Amendment”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An attorney who formerly worked as a high-ranking in-house lawyer for Nokia Corp. says she was unjustly fired after facing age and gender discrimination that left her “devastated, powerless, defeated, used and broken,” according to a suit filed Friday in Texas federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 