/retail?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Retail & E-Commerce Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:15:48 +0000 /retail/articles/2425274?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425274 A California federal judge has ordered two attorneys from a Santa Monica-based law firm to pay Walmart $623,000 in attorney fees as a sanction in their client's decertified class action that accused Walmart of falsely labeling its avocado oil as containing only avocado oil despite allegedly containing other oils. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:15:07 +0000 /retail/articles/2423235?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2423235 State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases this year that made clear plaintiffs must allege concrete injury for common law standing, narrowed the scope of the federal anti-kickback statute and laid out a new standard for certifying collective actions. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:57:06 +0000 /retail/articles/2425375?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425375 A U.S. intellectual property lawyer living in Japan asked a Washington federal court on Tuesday to throw out Amazon.com Inc.'s lawsuit accusing him of conspiring with a Chinese company to use his legal credentials to circumvent a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule requiring that foreign trademark applicants be represented by U.S. counsel. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:51:05 +0000 /retail/articles/2424916?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424916 The family of cannabis legalization activist and author Jack Herer is seeking to wrestle back control of his IP, filing a lawsuit in California state court which claims the patriarch's name, image and likeness have been "fraudulently" taken. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:33:10 +0000 /retail/articles/2425383?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425383 A fitness company with a cycling app called Bike+ has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision dismissing its trademark infringement claims against Peloton, saying the appeals court erred in assessing the likelihood of confusion and should have let a jury decide the matter. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:29:48 +0000 /retail/articles/2425161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425161 The New York Yankees are hoping to stifle a cannabis apparel seller's effort to secure a trademark registration for his products, telling the Federal Circuit that the application was correctly denied for copying the team's "iconic" logo. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:11:41 +0000 /retail/articles/2425243?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425243 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has determined that "earned wage access" products are generally not considered credit covered by the Truth in Lending Act, while withdrawing a Biden-era proposed interpretive rule that would have identified all such products as credit. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:37:46 +0000 /retail/articles/2424822?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424822 Right-leaning institutions are lining up behind Google before an Ohio appeals court to argue that the state is trying to "skirt the First Amendment" by fighting to have the internet titan classified as a common carrier and a lower court was right to rebuff the attempt. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:31:57 +0000 /retail/articles/2425279?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425279 It took eight days of trial and more than 50 hours of testimony to finally force a settlement that a North Carolina judge had spent months prodding Michael Jordan's race team and NASCAR to negotiate in their high-stakes antitrust battle — a signal to experts that a billionaire athlete, powerhouse lawyers and the iconic stock car racing organization wouldn't go down without a fight. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:20:23 +0000 /retail/articles/2424979?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424979 A shuttered network optimization startup has one more chance to fix market definition and other failings in its antitrust case accusing Amazon Web Services Inc. of deliberately sabotaging its work to drive it out of business, after a Washington federal judge gutted most of the suit Monday. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:43:43 +0000 /retail/articles/2425126?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425126 A Connecticut federal judge has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Amazon by five electricians who said they found eight nooses displayed in a warehouse being built, finding the online retailer did not have enough control over the premises while it was under construction to face possible liability. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:59:42 +0000 /retail/articles/2425189?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425189 A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Tuesday dismissed the Chapter 11 case of plus-size clothing retailer Ashley Stewart, saying it had been filed without proper authority by board members appointed in violation of a state court order. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:05:50 +0000 /retail/articles/2425134?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425134 A Long Island man seeking to register trademarks for the judiciary-themed expressions "All Rise" and "Here Comes The Judge" has asked the Federal Circuit to overturn the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's rejection of his applications, arguing it erroneously concluded that New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has priority over the phrases. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:44:07 +0000 /retail/articles/2424660?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424660 The estate of a woman who died of a tianeptine overdose is suing the makers and sellers of tianeptine products in Pennsylvania state court, saying while they market the products as safe diet supplements, they're actually highly addictive opioids. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:46:58 +0000 /retail/articles/2425170?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2425170 FlexShopper, a company offering lease-to-own services for appliances and electronics, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the Delaware bankruptcy court, listing more than $100 million in debt and alleging its former CEO used forged documents to secure financing for the firm before its collapse. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:14:03 +0000 /retail/articles/2424997?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424997 A Baltimore jury late Monday returned a walloping verdict of more than $1.5 billion in favor of a woman who claimed that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused her mesothelioma, which her attorneys say is the largest verdict against the company for a single plaintiff. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:28:08 +0000 /retail/articles/2424909?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424909 A pair of investors is suing the managers of a cannabis retail collective in California state court, alleging that they have been diverting funds and failing to properly distribute profits, instead using them to prop up their own businesses and enrich themselves. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:43:53 +0000 /retail/articles/2424875?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424875 Stanley Black & Decker Inc. knowingly dragged its feet on reporting potential hazardous defects in some of its utility bars and miter saws for years in violation of the Consumer Product Safety Act, according to a suit filed Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:48:09 +0000 /retail/articles/2424769?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424769 The owner of a series of patents covering credit card reader technology has filed a slew of infringement suits against retailers, including Aritzia, J. Crew and Albertsons, claiming the companies infringed the patents with their payment processing systems. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:51:53 +0000 /retail/articles/2424768?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /retail/articles/2424768 Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have charged six people in connection with what the government is alleging are securities fraud schemes that led to at least $41 million in illicit profits from insider trading, as well as gains from manipulating the stock prices of biopharmaceutical companies.