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April 23, 2025
Meta MDL Judge Doubts Insurers' Bid To Kick Fight To Del.
A California federal judge presiding over sprawling social media personal injury multidistrict litigation doubted on Wednesday insurers' arguments their multimillion-dollar coverage fight with Meta belongs in Delaware state court, questioning how moving the case would preserve judicial resources, while observing that Hartford's pre-litigation conduct may have been in bad faith.
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April 23, 2025
GoodRx Beats Investor Suit Over Kroger-Linked Biz
GoodRx Holdings Inc. has escaped a proposed shareholder class action alleging it concealed from investors the indispensability of its relationship with Kroger, according to an order signed by a California federal judge who said the suit does not show GoodRx knew Kroger had plans to renegotiate its contracts.
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April 23, 2025
Justices Hint That Fuel Groups Can Fight Emissions Waiver
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared to back a contention from fuel industry groups that they have standing to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act waiver allowing California to set its own greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles.
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April 23, 2025
Judge Says Calif. Tribes Can't Intervene In $700M Casino Row
A District of Columbia federal judge refused on Wednesday to allow three California tribes and a company to intervene in another California tribe's suit accusing the federal government of wrongfully rescinding gambling eligibility for the tribe's $700 million casino project.
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April 23, 2025
9th Circ. Asked To Modify Ruling In LA Port Co. Coverage Row
A Los Angeles port operator's insurer asked a three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit to rethink part of its decision ordering a jury trial on the amount of defense costs the operator incurred while litigating pollution claims brought by the city, arguing they improperly relied on a depublished decision.
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April 23, 2025
Software Co. Can't Escape 401(k) Investment Suit
A California federal judge refused to toss a federal benefits lawsuit from former ServiceNow employees alleging the cloud computing company kept an underperforming suite of target-date funds in its 401(k) plan for over a decade, finding allegations of a deficient process should proceed to discovery.
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April 23, 2025
TurboTax Maker Fends Off H&R Block's False Ad Claims
A California federal judge tossed H&R Block's claims that competing tax-preparation company Intuit duped its customers into buying its TurboTax product by falsely claiming an expert would review returns, saying H&R Block failed to show the expert review feature influenced customers' purchasing decisions.
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April 23, 2025
DOJ Settles With Tow Co. Over Navy Officer's Car Auction
The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement Tuesday with a California towing company it alleges illegally auctioned a deployed Navy lieutenant's car in violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, with the officer receiving $7,500 in damages and the government collecting a $2,000 civil penalty.
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April 23, 2025
Ex-Rabobank Exec Seeks $5M To Cover OCC Fight Legal Bill
A former Rabobank chief compliance officer has asked the Ninth Circuit to award her more than $5 million in attorney fees and expenses to cover both her defense of a now-discontinued Office of the Comptroller of the Currency enforcement action and her unsuccessful lawsuit to get the matter expunged.
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April 23, 2025
Silvergate Settles Securities Class Action For $37.5M In Ch. 11
The parent company of Silvergate Bank has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve a new deal to settle a securities class action for $37.5 million and resolve a slew of indemnification issues in its Chapter 11, a resolution that the debtor said would save it potentially millions of dollars in legal fees.
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April 23, 2025
Musk's X Settles Age Bias Suit Over Layoffs
A California federal judge dismissed a certified collective action filed against Elon Musk's social media company X on Wednesday that alleges workers aged 50 and older were disproportionately targeted for layoffs, issuing the order after the parties reported they reached a settlement.
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April 23, 2025
Apple Tricked People Into Buying AI-Less iPhone 16, Suit Says
Apple has been slapped with a lawsuit accusing it of baiting-and-switching iPhone 16 buyers with promises that the model would include the tech giant's new artificial intelligence model, but then quietly deleting those advertisements when it hit delays.
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April 23, 2025
Eli Lilly Sues 4 Telehealth Cos. For Weight Loss Drug Copies
Eli Lilly filed a new round of lawsuits Wednesday over the compounding of its popular weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound, accusing four telehealth companies of making copies of the medications while alleging that two companies violated laws requiring doctors to make medical decisions, not corporations.
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April 23, 2025
Weinstein Challenges Accusers' Credibility As Retrial Begins
Harvey Weinstein's attorney told a majority-women jury in his sexual assault retrial Wednesday that the "casting couch is not a crime scene" and that he merely had "mutually beneficial" relationships with aspiring actresses who later accused him of rape and sexual violence.
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April 23, 2025
Yelp's Antitrust Case Against Google Didn't Come Too Late
A California federal court has refused to toss Yelp's case accusing Google of monopolizing the local search market, despite arguments that it came too late, but trimmed several claims Yelp will have a chance to fix before moving ahead with the long-simmering dispute.
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April 22, 2025
Girardi's Son-In-Law Wants Chicago Client Theft Case Tossed
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi's son-in-law Tuesday urged an Illinois federal court to toss a superseding indictment accusing him of helping steal millions from clients of the now-defunct Girardi Keese, saying prosecutors created confusion around the charged offenses by highlighting California legal ethics rules without explaining their relevance, "if any."
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April 22, 2025
Wyndham Must Face Suit Alleging It Enabled Sex Trafficking
A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday rejected Wyndham Hotels' bid to escape a woman's lawsuit accusing the company and one of its franchisees of ignoring signs she was trafficked for sex at a Hawthorne Suites in Northern California, finding the woman sufficiently alleged Wyndham was liable for her injuries.
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April 22, 2025
All He Wants For Christmas Is To Not Pay $186K Fine To Carey
Telling a California federal court that he was an "elderly man now without vast resources," one of the co-writers of a minor 1989 hit is pointing to his modest means in fighting off $186,000 in legal fines surrounding a poorly argued motion from his failed copyright case against Mariah Carey.
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April 22, 2025
FTX Ch. 11 Trust Says Ex-Exec's Wife Spent $600K Since Dec.
The FTX Recovery Trust urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to enjoin the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame from spending additional money that the trust said was fraudulently taken from the company before its bankruptcy filing, saying Michelle Bond has spent more than $600,000 since mid-December on legal fees, luxury vacations and credit card bills.
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April 22, 2025
Audit Finds Calif. Universities' Repatriation Efforts Still Slow
The University of California system, despite years of demands for compliance to a federal law designed to protect Indigenous burial sites, still lacks accountability and urgency to return to tribes the thousands of Indigenous remains and artifacts in its collections, according to a state audit on the process.
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April 22, 2025
Firms Vie To Lead Trade Desk Investor Suit Over AI Rollout
Robbins Geller, Bernstein Litowitz and other firms are seeking to represent a proposed class of investors in a suit alleging global digital marketing venture The Trade Desk Inc. hid snags that ultimately delayed the rollout its artificial intelligence-driven ad-buying platform.
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April 22, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms Otonomo's Escape Of Calif. Car Tracking Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday unanimously refused to revive a California man's proposed class action accusing autotech company Otonomo Inc. of surreptitiously tracking drivers' movements in violation of California privacy law, finding that a device installed in the man's BMW wasn't an "electronic tracking device" under the relevant state law.
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April 22, 2025
Credit Sesame Users Say Data Breach Leaked Personal Info
Financial services provider Credit Sesame is facing a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court by two customers who said their personally identifiable information was compromised in a data hack earlier this month and that the company did not follow common industry standards to protect their sensitive information.
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April 22, 2025
Tesla Reaches Settlement With Widow In Wrongful Death Suit
Tesla Inc. has reached a settlement resolving a woman's wrongful death suit claiming her husband was killed after his Tesla Model Y suddenly accelerated and crashed into a gas station pump support column, according to a notice filed Monday in California federal court.
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April 22, 2025
23andMe Has Received 'Significant Interest' In Ch. 11 Auction
Genetic testing company 23andMe has received significant interest in the Chapter 11 auction for its assets, its counsel told a Missouri bankruptcy judge Tuesday at a hearing where it received final approval of a $35 million financing package to fund its bankruptcy case.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
California Climate Lawsuit Bill Is Constitutionally Flawed
A bill in the California Legislature that would let victims of climate-related disasters like the Los Angeles wildfires sue oil and gas producers for spreading misinformation about climate change is too vague, retroactive and focused on one industry to survive constitutional scrutiny, says Kyla Christoffersen Powell at the Civil Justice Association of California.
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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What's At Stake In High Court's Class Member Standing Case
The U.S. Supreme Court’s eventual decision in Labcorp v. Davis could significantly alter how parties prosecute and defend class actions in federal court, particularly if the court determines some proof of member standing is required before a class may be certified, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Opinion
DOJ's HPE-Juniper Challenge Is Not Rooted In Law
Legal precedents that date back as far as 1990 demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice's recent challenge to the proposed $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard and Juniper is misplaced because no evidence of collusion or coordinated conduct exists, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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Notable Q4 Updates In Insurance Class Actions
In a continuation of trends in property and casualty insurance class actions, last quarter insurers struggled with defending the merits and class certification of sales tax and fee suits, and labor depreciation cases, but succeeded in dismissing privacy class actions at the pleading stages, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.
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How Crypto Firms Should Approach Patchwork Of State Laws
The Money Transmission Modernization Act was designed to create uniformity across state digital regulations, but the reality remains far from consistent — as demonstrated by the patchwork of laws in states like Texas, Vermont, New York and California — so as state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, crypto firms should watch closely for developments that could shape the regulatory landscape, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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Opinion
NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets
A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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The Political Branches Can't Redefine The Citizenship Clause
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wong Kim Ark opinion and subsequent decisions, and the 14th Amendment’s legislative history, establish that the citizenship clause precludes the political branches from narrowing the definition of citizen based on how a parent’s U.S. presence is categorized, says federal public defender Geremy Kamens.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Appealing An Interlocutory Order On Insurer Duty To Defend
A recent First Circuit decision on a motion regarding an insurer's duty to defend underlying litigation highlights how policyholders may be able to pursue immediate appeals of interlocutory orders, especially in light of other circuit courts' stances on this issue, say attorneys at Anderson Kill.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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9th Circ. Draws The Line On Software As A Derivative Work
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Oracle International v. Rimini Street clarifies the meaning of derivative work under the Copyright Act, and when a work based upon a preexisting item doesn't constitute a derivative, says John Poulos at Norton Rose.
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As Failure-To-Warn Preemption Wanes, Justices May Weigh In
Federal preemption of state failure-to-warn claims has long been a powerful defense in strict liability tort cases, but is now under attack in litigation over the weedkiller Roundup and other products — so the scope and application of preemption may require clarification by the U.S. Supreme Court, says Michael Sena at Segal McCambridge.