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  • June 30, 2025

    Biotech Co. Stockholders Reach $32M Merger Suit Deal In Del.

    Former stockholders of Emisphere Technologies told the Delaware Chancery Court they have reached a $32 million settlement to resolve their suit challenging the $1.8 billion sale of the biotechnology company to Novo Nordisk A/S.

  • June 30, 2025

    DraftKings Hammers Away At Suit Disputing Voided NBA Bets

    DraftKings is looking to sink a proposed class action that an aggrieved customer brought alleging the online betting giant cheated him out of a six-figure payout by canceling wagers he placed with faulty odds, telling an Indiana federal judge the lawsuit's central claims are "untenable."

  • June 30, 2025

    Judge Mulls Mariano's OT Exemption With A Baseball Analogy

    An Illinois federal judge considering whether to declassify collectives of grocery store managers claiming a Kroger subsidiary misclassified them as being exempt from overtime pay compared them Monday to baseball player-managers like Pete Rose and pressed the parties to address "when a player-manager is more like a player than a manager."

  • June 30, 2025

    Healthcare Co.'s $120K Wage Deal Rejected

    A healthcare company can't move forward with its $120,000 settlement that resolves a collective action accusing it of failing to pay workers overtime wages for off-the-clock work they performed, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, saying the deal forces several workers to release too broad a spectrum of claims.

  • June 30, 2025

    Chancery OKs $19.25M Settlement In Weber Squeeze-Out Suit

    Grillmaker Weber Inc. public stockholders secured an up to 87-cents-per-share boost Monday over the company's purportedly unfair, $3.7 billion take private sale, when the Delaware Court of Chancery approved a $19.25 million mediated settlement.

  • June 30, 2025

    UMich Hacking Suit Adds NFL Head Coach Jim Harbaugh

    Jim Harbaugh, head football coach for the Los Angeles Chargers, has been named as a defendant in the civil rights lawsuit against former University of Michigan coach Matthew Weiss, who is accused of pilfering the personal information of thousands of female athletes.

  • June 30, 2025

    High Court Won't Weigh Class Standard In Junk Fax Row

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a dispute over whether online faxes are covered by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and whether plaintiffs pressing these claims are required to show an administratively feasible way to identify class members.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices Undo Patients' Win In Gender-Affirming Care Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Fourth Circuit decision that preserved access to gender-affirming care under two state-run health plans, telling the lower court to consider a recent decision by the justices that upheld a Tennessee law limiting treatments for young transgender people.

  • June 30, 2025

    High Court Wants Feds' Input On Parker-Hannifin 401(k) Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court asked for the U.S. solicitor general's take Monday on the Sixth Circuit's decision to revive a proposed class action alleging Parker-Hannifin Corp. mismanaged a 401(k) plan, seeking the government's view on the pleading standard for a claim that investment choices breached fiduciary duties.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices Will Review Union Fund's Withdrawal Liability Math

    The U.S. Supreme Court took up a fight Monday over the correct way to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer retirement plans, granting an employer-side petition for review of a D.C. Circuit decision favoring a machinists' union.

  • June 27, 2025

    Hershey Says Wrapper PFAS Suit 'Built On A House Of Cards'

    The Hershey Co. on Friday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to dismiss a putative class action that alleges its packaging for its chocolate bars and candies contains dangerous levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, saying consumers' testing allegations failed to back a viable claim that its products contain the forever chemicals known as PFAS.

  • June 27, 2025

    Sarepta Faces Investor Suit Over Gene Therapy-Linked Deaths

    Biopharmaceutical company Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. is facing a proposed investor class action after the deaths of two patients being treated with one of its therapies prompted regulatory scrutiny, with investors claiming the company failed to disclose the drug's risks.

  • June 27, 2025

    Fla. Judge Walks Back Class Cert. In Chili's Data Breach Row

    A Florida federal judge who previously certified a class of Chili's customers suing over a 2018 data breach declined to keep that mechanism in place Friday, finding that the revised class definition that was established after the Eleventh Circuit ordered the topic to be reexamined no longer met class certification standards. 

  • June 27, 2025

    Can AI Kill Human Art? Two Judges Envision Different Futures

    The two federal judges who issued highly anticipated opinions about training generative artificial intelligence models with copyrighted material acknowledged the fear from many that AI could ultimately supplant human-created works, but they had differing views about the probability of such a future.

  • June 27, 2025

    Fla. Teen Files $10M Suit Alleging DMV Appointment Scalping

    A Florida teenager has filed a proposed $10 million state court class action lawsuit against highway safety officials, alleging they were negligent for allowing her to camp outside a driver's license office just to secure an appointment because reservations were scalped by internet bots and sold for profit.

  • June 27, 2025

    Wells Fargo Beats Some Claims In Cash Sweep Litigation

    A federal judge on Friday nixed some claims in a proposed class action accusing Wells Fargo of harming customers through its cash sweep deposit program by giving them only minimal interest on their holdings, including a claim that the bank breached its fiduciary duties to its indirect clients.

  • June 27, 2025

    Hagens Berman Client Loses Bid To Lead Super Micro Class

    A California federal judge rejected a Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP client's bid to lead investor claims that Super Micro Computer Inc.'s shares fell roughly 20% after a short seller report accused it of violating its previous settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting improprieties.

  • June 27, 2025

    Apple Execs Sued Over Alleged AI Misrepresentations

    Apple's top brass have been hit with a derivative suit accusing them of duping shareholders into believing the tech giant would launch new artificial intelligence Siri features on the iPhone 16, which caused a stock drop when the rollout was delayed repeatedly.

  • June 27, 2025

    6th Circ. Vacates Class Cert. In GM Transmission Defect Suit

    The full Sixth Circuit on Friday unraveled class certification for drivers claiming General Motors LLC sold vehicles with defective transmissions that caused the cars to shudder and shake on the road.

  • June 27, 2025

    Groups Quickly Switch Tactics In Birthright Citizenship Cases

    Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court limited federal judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions Friday, groups challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order fired off a volley of new lawsuits, switching their legal actions to class action complaints.

  • June 27, 2025

    Loyola Says It Had No Role In Student-Athlete Data Breach

    Loyola University Chicago moved Thursday to be dismissed from an Illinois federal lawsuit claiming it failed to protect the private data of its student-athletes, saying it can't be held liable for the unlawful access of an ex-University of Michigan football coach who has no affiliation or connection to the university.  

  • June 27, 2025

    After Dobbs, States Become Battleground For Abortion Rights

    Three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, it did more than end nearly five decades of federal constitutional protection for abortion; it also fractured the legal landscape of reproductive rights, shifting the authority to regulate the procedure to individual states, and leading to legal uncertainty for courts, physicians and patients.

  • June 27, 2025

    Parolees Say Feds Not Processing Benefits As Required

    Noncitizens challenging the Trump administration's termination of Biden-era parole programs called on a Massachusetts federal judge to make the government explain how it's not violating a court order to restore processing of their immigration benefits requests.

  • June 27, 2025

    Walmart Crime Record Checks Harm Black Workers, Suit Says

    Walmart shirked civil rights law by using criminal background checks that screened out Black workers who wanted to be rehired for roles they previously held after the retail behemoth took over management of an Illinois distribution center, according to a new suit filed in federal court.

  • June 27, 2025

    Contractor Must Face OT Suit Over Fringe Benefits Payments

    A federal contractor cannot escape a lawsuit accusing it of failing to include cash in lieu of benefits payments in overtime pay calculations, a California federal judge ruled, saying the firm failed to show that the fringe benefits payments should be exempt from the regular rate of pay.

Expert Analysis

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

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    Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Series

    Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: Ballpark Lessons For MDLs

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    The baseball offseason has provided some time to ponder how multidistrict litigation life resembles the national pastime, including with respect to home-field advantage, major television markets and setting records, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

  • Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use

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    A recent U.S. Justice Department amicus brief arguing that a Nevada federal judge wrongly focused on the nonbinding aspect of software company Cendyn Group's pricing algorithm underscores the growing challenge of determining when, if ever, pricing algorithms are legal, say attorneys at Rule Garza.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

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    For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • 7th Circ. Travel Time Ruling Has Far-Reaching Implications

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    In a case of first impression, the Seventh Circuit’s recent holding in Walters v. Professional Labor Group will have significant implications for employers that must now provide travel time compensation for employees on overnight assignments away from home, says Anthony Sbardellati at Akerman.

  • 2 Cases Show DAOs May Face Increasing Legal Scrutiny

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    Two ongoing cases that recently survived motions to dismiss in California federal courts concerning Compound DAO and Lido DAO threaten to expand the potential liability for activity attributed to decentralized autonomous organizations — and to indirectly create liability for their participants, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Args In 2 High Court Cases May Foretell Clarity For Employers

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    Mary Anna Brand at Maynard Nexsen examines possible employment implications of two cases argued before the Supreme Court this fall, including a higher bar for justifying employees as overtime exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and earlier grants of prevailing party status for employee-plaintiffs seeking attorney fees.

  • Calif. Ruling May Shield Public Employers From Labor Claims

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    In Stone v. Alameda Health System, the California Supreme Court recently exempted a county hospital from state-mandated rest breaks and the Private Attorneys General Act, granting government employers a robust new bulwark against other labor statutes by undermining an established doctrine for determining if a law applies to public entities, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Service Providers Must Mitigate 'Secondary Target' Risks

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    A lawsuit recently filed in an Illinois federal court against marketing agency Publicis over its work for opioid manufacturers highlights an uptick in litigation against professional service providers hired by clients that engaged in alleged misconduct — so potential targets of such suits should be sure to conduct proper risk analysis and mitigation, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • 2nd Circ. AmTrust Decision Shows Audit Reports Still Matter

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    Though the Second Circuit eventually found on reconsidering a case over the high-profile accounting meltdown at AmTrust that audit reports are material to investors, its previous contrary holding highlights the seriousness of the ongoing crisis of confidence in the audit report, say attorneys at Bernstein Litowitz.

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    Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.

  • Nvidia Supreme Court Case May Not Make Big Splash

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    The skeptical tenor of the justices' questioning at oral argument in Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder suggests that the case is unlikely to alter the motion to dismiss pleading standard in securities class actions, as some had feared, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Defense Insights As PFAS Consumer Product Claims Rise

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    Amid the recent proliferation of lawsuits seeking damages for failure to disclose the presence of PFAS in consumer products, manufacturers, distributors and consumer product companies should follow the science and consider a significant flaw in many of the filings, say attorneys at Farella Braun.

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    Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.

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