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John Morgan On Why Luck Matters More Than Most Admit

By Y. Peter Kang

John Morgan, founder of personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA, built the largest personal injury firm in the U.S., with 1,110 attorneys in 140 locations. In his new memoir, "Life Is Luck," the attorney who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $1.5 billion argues that success is about more than talent, intelligence or determination. It is also about recognizing opportunities, taking risks and capitalizing on fortunate breaks when they appear.

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Block Inc. Makes $150M Deal To End Cash App Fraud Suit

By Craig Clough

Block Inc. reached a deal for insurers to pay it $150 million to resolve a shareholder derivative suit alleging that compliance failures fueled an "explosion" of fraud and other illicit activity on the company's Cash App, according to a motion filed Monday seeking a California federal judge's preliminary approval.

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Anthropic Can't Ditch Ad Fight Over Claude Usage Rates

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge has trimmed a proposed class action alleging Anthropic misleadingly marketed the usage offered in top-tier versions of the artificial intelligence chatbot Claude, ruling that "the advertising in question is plausibly misleading, so the case will move forward."

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Judge Rejects Zillow's Redo Bid For Antitrust Suit Ruling

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge on Tuesday rejected Zillow Group Inc.'s reconsideration request for a prior ruling that refused to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action, which alleges that the property listing giant runs a monopoly that pushes affiliated real estate agents to refer homebuyers to the company's home loan approval services in exchange for client leads.

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Amazon Photos Users Get Class Cert In Illinois BIPA Suit

By Craig Clough

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday certified a class of Amazon Photos users alleging the company collected their facial biometric data without the notice and consent required by Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, but rejected a proposed class of non-users pictured in others' photos.

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Stryker Shorted Wash. Workers On Breaks, Wages, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A medical device company failed to provide Washington hourly workers with required meal and rest breaks, underpaid their wages and restricted their ability to discuss their pay, according to a proposed class action removed to Washington federal court.

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Workday Seeks To Unwind Collective In AI Hiring Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Workday urged a California federal court on Tuesday not to allow workers to proceed as a group in their lawsuit alleging the company's artificial intelligence tools unlawfully discriminated against thousands of job applicants, saying the workers can't show that the tools were used against them in the same way.

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Telecom Co. Slapped With Tobacco Fee Suit

By Grace Elletson

A former telecommunications company worker told an Arkansas federal court the business failed to properly reimburse workers who paid an extra benefit plan fee for using tobacco, arguing the company created inequities through a tobacco cessation program.

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Pharma Co. Investors Ink $4M Deal In FDA Hurdle Suit

By Katryna Perera

Verrica Pharmaceuticals and a group of investors have reached a $4 million deal to end claims that the company hid obstacles it faced in obtaining U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its lead product.

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Drugmaker Inks $2.5M Deal In Failed Weight Loss Drug Suit

By Katryna Perera

Drugmaker Skye Bioscience Inc. has reached a $2.5 million settlement with investors that would end a proposed securities class action alleging the company overhyped a weight-loss drug, causing its stock price to plummet once the truth came to light.

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Frozen Potato Benchmarker Can't Appeal Dismissal Loss

By Lauraann Wood

A benchmarking company that serves the frozen potato product market cannot take a midcase appeal of its losing bid to ditch consolidated price-fixing claims because the question it's looking to ask on appeal is not purely legal, an Illinois federal judge ruled.

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Bombardier Says Free Fix Moots Boat Buyers' Losses

By Carolina Bolado

Canadian boat manufacturer Bombardier asked a Florida federal court Monday to dismiss a proposed class suit over an allegedly deceptive safety recall on a line of vessels, arguing that the plaintiffs' claimed economic losses were remedied by the free fix provided in the recall.

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Microsoft Says Students' Data-Mining Allegations Fall Short

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft has urged a Washington state court to dismiss a proposed class action from four students who accused the company of collecting personal data through school-provided products such as Microsoft 365 and Minecraft Education, asserting that certain claims are federally preempted and that the students had no reasonable expectation of privacy.

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Parking Lot Operators Stuck With Fla. Suit Over DMV Records

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge ruled that parking lot operators must face a proposed class action brought by motorists who claimed the companies used license plate readers to obtain personal information and charge them fees, saying that violations of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act were sufficiently alleged.

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Shoppers Say Home Depot Must Pay Back Tariff Windfall

By Kelcey Caulder

Two shoppers filed suit in Georgia federal court claiming Home Depot pocketed roughly $730 million in refunds from struck-down tariffs that should have gone to consumers. 

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Instinct Can't Get Pet Food Artificial Ingredients Suit Tossed

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge won't throw out a buyer's proposed class action alleging that Instinct Pet Foods misleads consumers by claiming its pet foods lack artificial preservatives, saying her complaint is enough to allege violations of state consumer protection law and fraud.

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Costco Can't End Dog Food Heart Risk Suit Yet, Buyers Say

By Emily Field

Dog owners on Monday told a Washington federal judge that Costco's bid to dismiss their proposed class action alleging that its grain-free dog food contributes to canine heart disease ignores their factual allegations, saying that the company is cherry-picking from studies about the risk.

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Staffing Co. Loses Coverage Bid For Poultry Employee Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

An insurer does not have to defend a staffing agency against a lawsuit alleging it shorted workers on overtime pay and cut into paychecks for required safety equipment, an Illinois federal court has ruled, finding that the underlying dispute fell under an insured v. insured exclusion. 

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$9M Deal Settles Payment Fee Suit Against Mortgage Servicer

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A North Carolina federal judge has approved a $9 million settlement reached between a mortgage servicer and a certified class of North Carolina borrowers over illegal processing fees for mortgage payments.

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BofA Strikes Class Deal To End Allegations Of Fake Accounts

By Bonnie Eslinger

Bank of America has reached a deal to resolve putative class claims in North Carolina federal court accusing the bank of opening unauthorized credit card accounts, according to a notice of settlement filed on Monday.

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Developer Says Data Center Campus Suit Isn't Moot

By Isaac Monterose

A developer urged a Michigan federal court on Tuesday to not toss its suit against a local city that has blocked the developer's data center campus plans, arguing that the suit shouldn't be dismissed, in part, because the company's claims aren't moot.

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Health Plan Sponsors Must Inspect 3rd-Party Admin Payments

A newly filed class action against Cigna spotlights issues surrounding how self-funded group health plan fiduciaries pay their third-party administrators, and the outcome could shape what plan sponsors are expected to know about such compensation structures, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

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How Cos. Can Reassess Ad Tech After Wash. Pixel Use Ruling

The Washington Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Seattle Children's Hospital, holding that the hospital website's use of Meta Pixel didn't violate the state’s privacy act, may provide a powerful defense against privacy claims, but shouldn’t be read as a blanket approval of advertising technologies, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

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Planning Personal Phone Collections Before Discovery Begins

For counsel planning a personal phone collection as part of the litigation discovery process, it's important to take early steps to ensure that necessary information will be obtained without exposing unrelated information or running into access issues, says Jeremy Horowitz at MARA Forensics.

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How A Child Of Immigrants Defends Abrego Garcia

By Corey Rothauser

Hecker Fink attorney Jeffrey Then grew up translating English-language letters for customers at his Dominican immigrant family’s Bronx business. Decades later, he drew on that experience while defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia from federal human smuggling charges, becoming a lifeline for Abrego Garcia during his detention.

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Wachtell To Probe Nvidia CEO's Affair With Alleged China Spy

By Anna Scott Farrell and Sue Reisinger

Nvidia has hired Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to lead an investigation into allegations that its founder and CEO had an affair with a business executive who U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy, the artificial intelligence chipmaker said Tuesday.

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Grassley Defends Rush To Confirm Trump Judicial Picks

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday defended how quickly the committee is moving to confirm President Donald Trump's judicial picks before Democrats control the Senate.

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Trump Swaps Out Blocked 8th Circ. Nominee With Ark. Justice

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew his pick for the Eighth Circuit and replaced him with a different nominee amid apparent opposition from Arkansas' senators. 

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Girardi Estate's $54M Claim Put Behind Other Creditors

By Craig Clough

The trustees overseeing Tom Girardi's and his former law firm's bankruptcies struck a deal to put their claims against each other behind other approved general unsecured claims, according to a California bankruptcy court filing, with the firm's trustee saying neither estate is expected to collect on those claims.

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