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Report: Data Breaches and ADA Compliance Drive Class Action IncreaseThe inaugural Class Action Litigation Report, released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found class action filings steadily increased from 2014 to 2020, dipped 10% in 2021, then started rising again in 2022. Last year, class action filings jumped 4% to 9,705.
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Johnson & Johnson Launches $6.48B Bankruptcy Plan to Resolve Talc LawsuitsWednesday's proposed plan immediately got pushback from lawyers representing ovarian cancer victims: "This is not a done deal," Beasley Allen's Andy Birchfield told Law.com. "There is substantial opposition to this."
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