Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Gibson Dunn 'Mortified' At Judge's Sanctions Threat Over Facebook Discovery. Walgreens Cites AG's Prior Statements in Florida's Opioid Trial.
April 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM
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Critical MassWelcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Gibson Dunn said on Monday that a sealed sanctions motion relied on a "false and misleading account" by the plaintiffs' attorneys in a privacy case against Facebook. Walgreens' lawyer used the Florida attorney general's own words against her in the opening of the state's opioid trial on Monday. Find out where the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent cases over recalled deodorant and cows-milk based infant formula.
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Facebook Law Firm Gibson Dunn Denies 'Stonewalling' Discovery
Lawyers at Gibson Dunn said they were "mortified" that U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was considering terminating sanctions for "dilatory discovery conduct" in privacy lawsuits against Facebook.
That's according to Monday's response from the law firm to a sanctions motion filed, with Chhabria's urging, by plaintiffs' attorneys in the multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Gibson Dunn denied that its lawyers, who include the firm's chief operating officer, Josh Lipshutz, were "foot -dragging" and "stonewalling" discovery, insisting that Chhabria's version of events relied on a "false and misleading account" by the plaintiffs' attorneys.
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