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September 25, 2025
NJ Fed Courts Tighten Rules On Anti-Counterfeiting Suits
Citing an "uptick" in intellectual property theft suits against online counterfeiters, New Jersey's chief district judge issued a new standing order Thursday tightening rules on infringement suits that often name numerous defendants.
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September 25, 2025
Sunbeam Sued Over Alleged Crock-Pot Burn Injury
Sunbeam Products Inc. and its parent Newell Brands Inc. were hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court on Wednesday brought by a woman who alleges she was able to remove the lid from a Sunbeam pressure cooker while it was still under pressure, causing her to be seriously burned.
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September 25, 2025
Texas Wins Remand Of PFAS Lawsuit Targeting 3M, Corteva
A Texas federal judge has remanded the state's lawsuit alleging that chemical companies including 3M Co. marketed and sold products like Teflon, Stainmaster and Scotchgard despite being aware of the toxicity of the forever chemicals within them.
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September 25, 2025
Boeing Asks Chancery To Ground 737 Max Derivative Suit
Boeing Co. wants the Delaware Chancery Court to throw out a derivative lawsuit that accuses the company's leadership of ignoring safety risks in the wake of a January 2024 incident in which a door plug flew off one of its 737 Max planes.
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September 25, 2025
PepsiCo, Frito-Lay Sued Over 'No Artificial Flavors' Poppables
PepsiCo and Frito-Lay deceptively label their Poppables puffy potato snacks with a "categorically false" claim that they contain no artificial flavors despite that citric acid is an ingredient, which induced customers into paying a price premium for them, alleges a proposed class action filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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September 25, 2025
Nissan Hid Leaf EV Fire Risk, Charging Defect, Drivers Say
Nissan Leaf drivers have hit the automaker with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging that it misled them about the electric car's charging capabilities and didn't inform them of a possibly dangerous fire risk.
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September 25, 2025
Widow Sues Philly Port Authority Over Husband's Death
The wife of a warehouse worker is suing the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority and others, alleging their negligence led to her husband being crushed to death by a bale of wood pulp while working at a PRPA-owned warehouse.
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September 25, 2025
Avon Gets Ch. 11 Plan Approved
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has confirmed Avon's Chapter 11 plan a few days after verbally agreeing to approve it.
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September 25, 2025
Depo-Provera MDL Plaintiff Numbers Balloon To 1,300
The plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer failed to warn consumers of a link between brain tumors and the hormonal contraceptive Depo-Provera now number more than 1,300, with more expected to file suits ahead of a hearing Monday on whether their claims are preempted by federal law.
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September 25, 2025
Judge Says NY Discharge Law Usurps Feds' Nuclear Authority
A federal judge has ruled that a New York law barring the release of radioactive materials into the Hudson River — which was passed in response to the decommissioning of the Indian Point Energy Center nuclear plant — infringed on the federal government's oversight of nuclear safety.
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September 25, 2025
Families Cite Trump In Bid To Revive Tylenol Autism Claims
Families suing the maker of Tylenol quickly cited President Donald Trump's words this week as they pushed the Second Circuit to overturn a lower-court ruling that barred their expert witnesses from testifying that prenatal exposure to the medicine can cause autism.
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September 25, 2025
Driver Says Mazda's Sanctions Bid Is Itself Sanctionable
The leader of a proposed class of Mazda drivers suing over an alleged oil burning defect is firing back at the automaker's call for sanctions for what it called "frivolous" postjudgment filings, saying Mazda's filing is legally baseless and filled with ad hominem attacks on his attorney, so the company is the one that should face sanctions.
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September 24, 2025
Ex-Lyft Lobbyist Testifies For Uber In Sex Assault Trial
California has established model safety standards for the ride-hailing industry and Uber has exceeded those standards, a former lobbyist for Lyft told jurors Wednesday in a bellwether trial over claims Uber negligently failed to put sufficient measures in place to prevent sexual assaults by its drivers.
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September 24, 2025
Gunmakers Ask 2nd Circ. For Another Chance At Liability Law
The Second Circuit has been asked to reconsider its recent ruling that upheld a New York public nuisance statute allowing claims specifically against gun manufacturers that cause public harm, saying the decision flouts a federal law shielding those companies from the criminal misuse of guns.
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September 24, 2025
Pharmacies Labeled As Gatekeepers In Fla. Opioid Trial
A medical doctor who testified Wednesday in a Florida state court trial against Walgreens, Walmart and CVS over their alleged conspiracy to push addictive painkiller drugs characterized their pharmacists as gatekeepers in dispensing the medications, saying they had the ability to break the pharmaceutical companies' ability to make money off the opioid epidemic.
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September 24, 2025
Vehicle-Maker Says Ex-Worker Can't Bring Smoker-Fee Suit
International Motors LLC, formerly Navistar, is looking to end a proposed class action by a former employee who claims its $50-a-month health insurance fee for workers who use tobacco violates federal law, telling an Illinois federal court that the harm he suffered was caused by his own refusal to quit smoking or try the company's smoke-free program.
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September 24, 2025
GAO Says Energy Dept. Must Review PFAS At Dozens Of Sites
The U.S. Department of Energy needs to speed up its review of how forever chemicals are and have been used at its sites across the nation, the congressional watchdog agency said Wednesday.
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September 24, 2025
9th Circ. Allows One More Go-Round In Kleenex Ad Fight
The Ninth Circuit Wednesday determined it does not have jurisdictional authority to revive a proposed class action alleging Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s Kleenex Germ Removal Wet Wipes mislead consumers about the product's ability to kill germs, saying the consumers were not able to establish subject matter jurisdiction.
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September 24, 2025
Sen. Questions FAA's Proposed $3M Boeing Safety Fine
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is seeking answers from the Federal Aviation Administration on the calculations behind a proposed fine of $3.1 million against Boeing for safety violations that led to last year's Alaska Airlines door plug incident, and has told the agency the penalty would amount to a "rounding error" for the aerospace giant.
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September 24, 2025
American Airlines, US Gov't Sued Over Potomac Crash
A new wrongful death complaint brought by the wife of an American Eagle Flight 5342 victim names both American Airlines and the United States government as liable in the "wholly avoidable tragedy" that killed 67 people on the Potomac River in January.
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September 24, 2025
Tribal Groups Back 9th Circ. Bid To Block Ariz. Land Transfer
Two tribal advocacy groups are backing a Ninth Circuit bid to block a 2,400-acre federal land exchange in Arizona to make way for a billion-dollar copper mining project they say will destroy an ancient worship site, arguing that federal policies are systematically stripping Indigenous nations of their homelands.
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September 24, 2025
SharkNinja Gets Expert, Suit Alleging Blender Injury Tossed
A Colorado federal judge has given SharkNinja Operating LLC a win in a suit alleging one of its blenders spilled hot contents onto a woman because of a design defect, finding her expert's opinions were unreliable and inadmissible.
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September 23, 2025
OTC Drug Co. Must Face Shampoo Cancer Risk Class Action
A Pennsylvania federal judge denied Lake Consumer Products Inc.'s request to toss a putative class action alleging it manufactures coal tar shampoo with known carcinogens, reasoning that most of the claims against the company were plausible enough to move forward.
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September 23, 2025
Uber Asks Judge To Look Into Leak Of Sealed Records To NYT
Uber has asked a San Francisco judge to order the lawyers in coordinated sexual assault litigation in California state court involving hundreds of accusers to officially state they have no knowledge about how sealed, confidential information protected under the court's order was handed over to The New York Times.
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September 23, 2025
Eli Lilly Deal In Weight Loss Drugs Trademark Suit Hits Snag
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and two Seattle-area medical clinics tried to leave a federal court "entirely in the dark" on the finer points of their newly proposed trademark suit settlement, a Seattle federal judge held in declining to approve the deal and enter a consent judgment in the case.
Expert Analysis
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Canadian Suit Offers Disclosure Lesson For US Cannabis Cos.
A Canadian class action asserting that Aurora Cannabis failed to warn consumers about the risk of developing cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome may spawn copycat filings in the U.S., and is a cautionary tale for cannabis and hemp industries to prioritize risk disclosure, says Ian Stewart at Wilson Elser.
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Tesla's Robotaxi Push Exposes Gaps In Product Liability Law
As Tesla's deployment of robotaxis on public roads in Austin, Texas, faces regulatory scrutiny and legislative pushback, the legal community confronts an unprecedented challenge: how to apply traditional fault principles, product liability laws and insurance practices to vehicles that operate as rolling computers, says Don Fountain at Clark Fountain.
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Series
My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer
Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.
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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work
Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients
Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.
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One Year On, Davidson Holds Lessons On 'Health Halo' Claims
A year after the Ninth Circuit's Davidson v. Sprout Foods decision — which raised the bar for so-called health halo claims — food and beverage companies can draw insights from its finding, subsequently expanded on by other courts, that plaintiffs must be specific when alleging fraud in healthfulness marketing, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Justices' NRC Ruling Raises New Regulatory Questions
In Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided ruling on the NRC's authority to license private, temporary nuclear waste storage facilities — and this failure to reach the merits question creates new regulatory uncertainty where none had existed for decades, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm
My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.
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Opinion
Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System
The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.
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3 Juror Psychology Principles For Expert Witness Testimony
Expert witnesses can sometimes fall into traps when trying to teach juries complex topics by failing to consider the psychology of juror comprehension, but attorneys can help witnesses avoid these pitfalls with a deeper understanding of cognitive lag, chunking and learning styles, says Steve Wood at Courtroom Sciences.
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In NRC Ruling, Justices Affirm Hearing Process Still Matters
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas safeguards the fairness, clarity and predictability of the regulatory system by affirming that to challenge an agency's decision in court, litigants must first meaningfully participate in the hearing process that Congress and the agency have established, says Jonathan Rund at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
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Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer
To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.
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Focusing On Fluoride: From FDA To Class Action
A class action filed two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to remove ingestible fluoride prescription drug products for children from the market may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the connection between government pronouncements on safety and their immediate use as evidence in lawsuits, says Rachel Turow at Skadden.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths
Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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Speech Protection Questions In AI Case Raise Liability Risk
A Florida federal court's recent landmark ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies, rejecting artificial intelligence developers' efforts to shield themselves from product liability and wrongful death claims under the First Amendment, challenges the assumption that chatbot outputs qualify as speech, and may redefine AI regulation and litigation nationally, says Peter Gregory at Goldberg Segalla.