Kat Black

June 28, 2024 | The Recorder

A Los Angeles jury ordered the NFL on Thursday to pay $4.7 billion in damages to residential subscribers and $96 million to businesses. Federal antitrust law could treble the damages to more than $14 billion.

By Kat Black

5 minute read

June 27, 2024 | The Recorder

The original complaint, filed in 2015, demanded up to $7 billion in damages for class action members.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

June 27, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint, filed in Austin federal court, accuses JonnyPops of deceiving consumers and retailers about the nutritional value of its products.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

June 26, 2024 | The Recorder

Defense counsel from Wilkinson Stekloff claimed that plaintiffs have no grounds for pursuing a class action against the NFL because the Sunday Ticket streaming package is a "premium" service. In their rebuttal, plaintiffs counsel from Susman Godfrey said that the defense's argument is not viable in the context of American antitrust law.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

June 25, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint, filed by Bottini & Bottini in California's Central District Court last Friday, argues that the defendants, including Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino, breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prevent antitrust violations and defying a 2010 consent decree prohibiting anti-competitive conduct.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

June 21, 2024 | The Recorder

The plaintiffs sought more than $500 million from Sutter Health over allegations of insurance fraud, which Judge Stephen D. Kaus rejected.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

June 20, 2024 | The Recorder

Complaints filed in May in the Northern District of California accuse the file sharing platform of exposing its clients to a "high risk of identity theft or fraud" by failing to prevent a cyberattack by an "undoubtedly nefarious" third party on April 24.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

June 18, 2024 | The Recorder

Amazon has filed petitions in several states, including California, to compel arbitration in an ongoing dispute with Amazon Flex delivery drivers who argue they have been misclassified as independent contractors in proposed class actions.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

June 18, 2024 | The Recorder

Current and former Tesla employees who worked at Tesla's EV manufacturing facilities in Fremont and Lathrop, California, allege that supervisors and colleagues at these factories created a "racially hostile work environment" by routinely harassing African American, Hispanic and Latinx Tesla employees.

By Kat Black

5 minute read

June 17, 2024 | The Recorder

The electric carmaker's complaint, filed by its in-house counsel and Fish & Richardson on June 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Matthews of flouting several nondisclosure agreements, filing patents that co-opt Tesla's trade secrets and leaking confidential information to Tesla's rivals.

By Kat Black

3 minute read