Kat Black

July 08, 2024 | The Recorder

Pillsbury attorneys Clark Thiel, Marc Coats and Natalie Truong filed the suit on behalf of CalSTRS in the California Superior Court for Sacramento County on July 1. The complaint accused DPR Construction of breaching its construction contract with CalSTRS, failing to maintain proper licensure, retaining unlicensed subcontractors and submitting false payment applications. Counsel has not yet appeared for the defendants.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

July 03, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint, filed Monday by King & Spalding, alleges that Voodoo and co-defendants Esport Newco SAS and Esport Newco US Corp. falsely market their games as "fair" and "skills-based" to players, despite using an algorithm to rig tournament outcomes.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

July 03, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint alleged that the San Jose software company broke California's Automatic Renewal Law by "surreptitiously" enrolling subscribers in annual, billed-monthly auto-renewal schemes when they signed up for its paid membership plans.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

July 03, 2024 | The Recorder

The proposed class action lawsuit was filed by Chicago firm Strauss Borrelli. It accuses Intuit of effectively causing a cyberattack that compromised its users' personally identifiable information by bypassing cybersecurity industry standards.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

July 01, 2024 | The Recorder

The suit, originally filed in November 2021, consolidated two separate whistleblower retaliation complaints brought by Dr. Jeannie Lochhead and Dr. Michele Nelson, both former faculty members at UC Riverside's Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. The case, which alleged that the UC Regents violated the California Whistleblower Protection Act, went to trial on May 17.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

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