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…
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A group of Mercedes-Benz owners and lessees asked a Georgia federal court on Friday to approve a proposed settlement with the German automaker that will cover repairs to allegedly faulty air systems installed in some 2.5 million vehicles that contributed to smelly mold in the luxury cars…
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Massachusetts-based Singular Computing LLC sued Google on Friday in Boston federal court, accusing the Silicon Valley juggernaut of making unauthorized use of Singular’s patent-protected technologies to boost the power of some of Google’s most popular products…
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Sony, Universal, Warner and other major music labels won a $1 billion verdict against Cox Communications on Thursday when a Virginia federal jury found that the telecom behemoth turned a blind eye to the pirating of more than 10,000 musical works…
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Morgan Stanley and a class of financial advisers who settled a compensation dispute with the Wall Street giant tore into attorneys from another similar lawsuit on Wednesday, blasting their “improper and unjustified” request to be awarded fees and costs from the $10 million deal…
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The Seventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday that an Illinois federal court was right to deny class certification to an Instagram user who claimed Groupon violated a Prairie State publicity statute when it pulled photos from her account for advertising…
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Blank Rome LLP has sued Andrus Wagstaff PC in Pennsylvania federal court, saying it is “beyond argument” that Andrus Wagstaff owes the Philadelphia-based firm nearly half a million dollars in fees related to multidistrict litigation concerning allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants…
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