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  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. dodged a second attempt at a lawsuit in California federal court alleging the sweets maker tricked consumers into thinking its cocoa-free white baking chips actually contained chocolate, with the judge saying the candy buyers undercut their own case by introducing a new consumer survey… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • After being ousted from his job as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York last month following a showdown with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Geoffrey Berman will join Stanford Law School to teach a legal ethics course and work as a fellow at a corporate governance think tank, the school announced Wednesday…

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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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  • VidAngel Inc. has asked the Ninth Circuit to upend a California federal judge’s “astoundingly vague and overbroad” order that blocked VidAngel from playing sanitized versions of movies by Walt Disney and other studios that sued the family-friendly streaming service into bankruptcy… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The head of the labor and employment practice at Los Angeles-based law firm Ivie McNeill Wyatt Purcell & Diggs APLC is facing allegations he engaged in an extended campaign of “creepy” behavior toward an associate that peaked with a “nightmarish” incident during a work trip overseas… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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