Retail & E-Commerce

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Latest News in Retail & E-Commerce

  • June 12, 2026

    'Poor Lawyering': Walmart Flub Haunts Class Attys At 9th Circ.

    Amid warnings of a chilling effect on plaintiffs counsel, a Ninth Circuit panel Friday scrutinized six-figure sanctions against attorneys whose false advertising suit targeting Walmart Inc. collapsed because of crucial fine print in an avocado oil receipt.

  • June 12, 2026

    Amazon, Colo. Delivery Drivers Say Wage Suit Can Resume

    Amazon and a proposed class of last-mile delivery drivers for the e-commerce giant asked a Colorado federal judge to allow the drivers' lawsuit over required bathroom breaks to move forward to discovery after the case had been stayed pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

  • June 12, 2026

    9th Circ. Tells Serial Litigant App Developer No More

    The Ninth Circuit has said it does not want to hear any more from a serial litigant who has a bone to pick with tech behemoth Apple and a California federal court over the exclusion of an application for tracking COVID-19 cases from the App Store.

  • June 12, 2026

    Upper Deck Beats Game Co.'s Bid For $4M Fees After IP Loss

    A Washington federal judge on Thursday denied a bid from toymaker Ravensburger and a game designer for $3.8 million in legal fees after the court mostly sided with them in Upper Deck's copyright case targeting a Disney-branded trading card game, noting that the suit was "neither unreasonable nor frivolous."  

  • June 12, 2026

    Trade Court Revives Chinese Paper Plate Duty Probe

    The U.S. Department of Commerce must give a Chinese paper plate manufacturer a chance to rectify issues with information it submitted during a duty investigation, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled, saying the department didn't properly notify the company of the deficiency.

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Areas of Coverage

  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • U.S. Department of Labor
  • National Labor Relations Board
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • State and international retail regulators
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • Antitrust and consumer protection controls
  • Credit card transaction rules
  • Franchise regulation
  • Minimum wage and tip requirements
  • Sales tax issues
  • Retail and e-commerce lobbying
  • International retail legislation and regulation
  • ENFORCEMENT
  • Import bans and trade restrictions that affect retailers
  • Counterfeiting and piracy investigations
  • Merger reviews
  • LITIGATION
  • Breach of contract suits
  • Data breach actions
  • Patent and trademark suits
  • Labor and employment disputes
  • Mass torts
  • Product liability and personal injury suits
  • Antitrust disputes
  • Shareholder suits
  • Patent and trademark suits
  • Bankruptcy proceedings
  • TRANSACTIONS
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
  • Share buybacks and stock splits
  • Franchise and management agreements
  • Retail project finance and real estate deals, including mall developments
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of retail and e-commerce practices

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  • Judges and court staff across the U.S.
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