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October 08, 2025
Semtech Gets Suit Over Revised Sales Projections Trimmed
A California federal judge has trimmed shareholder claims against semiconductor supplier and cloud service provider Semtech Corp. in an investor suit alleging share prices for the company dropped and investors were hurt after it downgraded bullish sales expectations for a certain product portfolio it had earlier said would be used by chipmaker Nvidia.
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October 08, 2025
Meta Sued Over Financial Scam Impersonation Ads
Meta Platforms Inc. is knowingly publishing and profiting from scam advertisements that unlawfully impersonate licensed financial professionals to ensnare social media users in fraudulent investment schemes involving thinly traded China-based securities, two financial professionals allege in a proposed class action in California federal court.
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October 08, 2025
Cepton Accused By Investor Of Hiding Better Takeover Bid
Light detection and ranging technology company Cepton Inc. has been hit with a shareholder's proposed class action in California federal court, accusing it of concealing a third party's "credible" attempt to buy Cepton for more than double the amount Japan-based Koito Manufacturing Inc. paid to acquire it in January.
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October 08, 2025
Fortinet Brass Misled Investors With Rosy Outlook, Suit Says
Executives and directors of cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. were hit Wednesday with a shareholder derivative action alleging they made the company misrepresent its revenue expectations for certain customer upgrades despite knowing that certain rosy projections were unrealistic.
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October 08, 2025
ALN Medical Strikes $4M Data Breach Deal With 1.8M Users
Healthcare advisory firm ALN Medical has offered to create a $4 million settlement fund to resolve litigation surrounding a March 2024 data breach that affected more than a million individuals, requesting a Nebraska federal court's preliminary approval of the deal.
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October 08, 2025
Del. Jurist Says Blue Bell's Late Stand Defies Common Sense
Challenges to purportedly late-raised defenses on Wednesday sidetracked arguments at the Court of Chancery that sought dismissal of a derivative stockholder suit seeking damages from Blue Bell Creameries USA Inc. fiduciaries for company losses tied to a deadly tainted ice cream incident in 2015.
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October 08, 2025
OpenAI Says Copyright Case Isn't About AI Outputs
OpenAI told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that a group of authors should not be allowed to argue that ChatGPT spits out summaries or verbatim portions of their books in a copyright infringement case, saying this is an additional theory of infringement that would make discovery more onerous than it already is.
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October 08, 2025
Chiquita Victims Urge 11th Circ. To Revive Claims Over Killings
Family members of victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia asked the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday to revive their claims against Chiquita Brands International Inc. executives, arguing they had provided enough information to show the killings were committed "under color of law" as required by the Torture Victim Protection Act.
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October 08, 2025
Judge OKs Amazon's Evidence Clawback In Antitrust Suits
Amazon can claw back certain documents it handed over during discovery in a series of antitrust lawsuits alleging the company's merchant policies artificially raised market prices, a Seattle federal judge has ruled, rejecting objections raised by consumers suing the e-commerce giant.
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October 08, 2025
LA County Probes Firm's Conduct In $4B Sex Abuse Deal
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to launch an investigation into a record $4 billion sex abuse settlement it approved earlier this year following claims that the Downtown L.A. Law Group paid people to file complaints.
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October 08, 2025
FirstEnergy Investors Seek Clarity On 6th Circ. Privilege Order
FirstEnergy investors asked the Sixth Circuit Wednesday to clarify a recent ruling blocking them from accessing internal investigation documents in a lawsuit over a $1 billion bribery scandal, arguing that the company is holding up depositions due to its misreading of the court's opinion.
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October 08, 2025
5th Circ. Says Some NOLA Rental Rules Are Unconstitutional
A Fifth Circuit panel partially revived a proposed class action filed by homeowners and two companies challenging New Orleans' short-term rentals regulations, ruling in a published opinion that some of the regulations are unconstitutional.
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October 08, 2025
ICE Violating Settlement With Warrantless Arrests, Judge Says
A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that the use of informal administrative warrants by agents from ICE's Chicago field office in recent immigration enforcement actions violates a 2022 settlement with unauthorized immigrants that requires the agency to use warrants signed by a judge when making most arrests.
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October 08, 2025
Battery Maker Enovix Gets Investor Suit Trimmed Again
A California federal judge has pared an investor lawsuit against lithium battery maker Enovix to a single claim, after finding that two allegedly misleading statements by the company about its production equipment testing were significantly taken out of context.
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October 08, 2025
Discord Sued After User Info Leaked In Breach Of Vendor
Communications platform maker Discord Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Tuesday after one of its third-party customer support partners suffered a data breach that allowed unauthorized parties to access personal information belonging to Discord's users.
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October 08, 2025
$20M Deal Over Wash. Hospital Wage Claims Gets Final OK
A Washington state judge has given the final sign-off on a $20 million deal resolving a class action alleging that the state of Washington, doing business as the University of Washington Medical Center, shortchanged healthcare workers by rounding their hours worked and denying them second meal breaks on longer shifts.
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October 08, 2025
Arnall Golden Sanctioned For Giving Feds ERISA Suit Docs
A California federal judge has ordered Arnall Golden Gregory LLP to pay a $50,000 penalty for giving the U.S. Department of Labor confidential documents United Behavioral Health turned over in a class action accusing the insurer of overcharging workers for out-of-network substance use disorder treatments.
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October 08, 2025
Lender, Servicer Fight Bid To 'Relitigate' Foreclosure Claims
A state-run mortgage lender and a servicer asked a New York federal court to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that they schemed to inflate interest calculations in foreclosure cases, arguing that the borrower is attempting to improperly relitigate a state court's foreclosure judgment.
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October 08, 2025
Musk Ordered To Explain Attys' Role In Twitter Dispute
Elon Musk must explain whether he plans to argue that he relied on legal advice to defend himself against a dispute over his acquisition of an ownership stake in Twitter, with a New York federal judge saying Musk's statements on the matter have so far been contradictory.
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October 08, 2025
2nd Circ. Skeptical Of Reviving NY Teamsters Pension Suit
The Second Circuit appeared unlikely Wednesday to revive a New York Teamsters worker's proposed class action alleging mismanagement by the caretakers of his multiemployer pension plan, as multiple judges seemed to doubt that the complaint contained enough evidence of a deficient process to manage fees and investments.
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October 08, 2025
Tyson Hillshire Corn Dogs Have Wood Bits, Suit Claims
Tyson Foods and Hillshire Farms on Tuesday were hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court over recalled corn dogs and sausages on sticks that had pieces of wood in the batter, brought by a consumer who says the recall falls short of remedying consumers.
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October 08, 2025
DOJ Asks For Stay In PVC Antitrust Case Amid Criminal Probe
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking an Illinois federal court to pause discovery in a case accusing polyvinyl chloride pipe manufacturers of using a commodity pricing service to exchange information and fix prices while a grand jury investigates the alleged activity.
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October 08, 2025
Retirees Can't Show Losses From Pension Deal, Judge Says
An aerospace materials manufacturer shouldn't face a proposed class action alleging it violated federal benefits law when it converted $1.5 billion in pension obligations to risky insurance-backed annuities, a Pennsylvania federal judge recommended Tuesday, saying retirees hadn't demonstrated that the transaction diminished their benefits.
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October 08, 2025
Sanctions Bid In Ohio Derailment Deal Criticized As Premature
The former administrator of Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement with the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, urged a federal court to reject the plaintiffs' bid to seek sanctions without waiting for an audit, arguing that the change in procedure would potentially double the court's workload and leave the administration firm scrambling to respond.
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October 07, 2025
Atty Fee Concerns Sink Health Provider's $2M Privacy Deal
An Arizona federal judge refused to sign off on a nearly $2 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing LifeStance Health Group of illegally sharing website visitors' personal data with Meta, finding the proposed attorney fees to be "disproportionately high" compared to what class members stand to recover.
Expert Analysis
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What 9th Circ. Cracker Barrel Ruling Means For FLSA Cert.
The Ninth Circuit's decision in Harrington v. Cracker Barrel suggests a settling of two procedural trends in Fair Labor Standards Act jurisprudence — when to issue notice and where nationwide collectives can be filed — rather than deepening circuit splits, says Rebecca Ojserkis at Cohen Milstein.
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Defense Lessons From Freshworks' Win In Post-IPO Case
A California federal court’s recent decision to grant Freshworks’ summary judgment bid in a proposed investor class action helpfully clarifies two important points for defendants facing postoffering securities claims under Section 11 of the Securities Act, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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'Loss' Policy Definition Is Key For Noncash Settlements
A recent Delaware decision in AMC Entertainment v. XL Specialty Insurance, holding that the definition of loss includes noncash settlement payments, is important to note for policyholders considering other settlement options — like two other class actions that recently settled for vouchers, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Series
Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.
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Tips For Business Users After 2 Key AI Copyright Decisions
Because two recent artificial intelligence copyright decisions from the Northern District of California — Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta — came out mostly in favor of the developers using the plaintiffs' works to train large language models, business users should proceed with care, says Chris Wlach at Acxiom.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma
Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.
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Copyright Takeaways From 2 Calif. GenAI Rulings
Two California federal court decisions suggest that the fair use defense may protect generative artificial intelligence output, but given the ongoing war between copyright holders and AI platforms, developers should still consider taking steps to reduce legal risk, says Lincoln Essig at Knobbe Martens.
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Challenging A Class Representative's Adequacy And Typicality
Recent cases highlight that a named plaintiff cannot certify a putative class action unless they can meet all the applicable requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so defendants should consider challenging a plaintiff's ability to meet typicality and adequacy requirements early and often, say attorneys at Womble Bond.
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Yacht Broker Case Highlights Industry Groups' Antitrust Risk
The Eleventh Circuit recently revived class claims against the International Yacht Brokers Association, signaling that commission-driven industries beyond real estate are vulnerable to antitrust challenges after the National Association of Realtors settled similar allegations last year, says Miles Santiago at the Southern University Law Center and Alex Hebert at Southern Compass.
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Opinion
4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding
As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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What To Know About Bill Aiming To Curb CIPA
A bill pending in the California Assembly would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act to allow for the use of website tracking technologies for commercial business purposes, limiting class actions seeking damages under the act for industry standard practices, say Katherine Alphonso and Avazeh Pourhamzeh at Kaufman Dolowich.
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State Law Challenges In Enforcing Arbitration Clauses
In recent cases, state courts in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have considered or endorsed heightened standards for arbitration agreements, which can mean the difference between a bilateral arbitration and a full-blown class action in court, says Fabien Thayamballi at Shapiro Arato.
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How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery
E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.
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How McKesson Ruling Will Inform Interpretations Of The TCPA
Amid the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, we can expect to see both plaintiffs and defendants utilizing the decision to revisit the Federal Communications Commission's past Telephone Consumer Protection Act interpretations and decisions they did not like, says Jason McElroy at Saul Ewing.
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Navigating Court Concerns About QR Codes In FLSA Notices
As plaintiffs attorneys increasingly seek to include QR codes as a method of notice in Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, counsel should be prepared to address judicial concerns about their use, including their potential to be duplicative and circumvent court-approved language, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.