By Emily Cousins | July 8, 2024
ALPHV Blackcat, the "notorious" cybercrime group, is likely behind the attack, the complaint contended. The group is known for ransomware and data extortion. The personal data will also likely be sold on the dark web, the plaintiffs alleged.
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | July 5, 2024
"The district court's decision rejecting our effort to hold federal officials accountable under D.C. law for the unprovoked, violent dispersal of racial justice protestors at Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, is deeply disappointing," said Arthur Spitzer, senior counsel of the ACLU-DC.
By Colleen Murphy | July 5, 2024
A New Jersey federal magistrate judge has preliminarily approved a class action settlement in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective synthetic field turf which included plaintiffs in the Garden State, California, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania.
By Kat Black | July 3, 2024
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 Riley Brennan | July 3, 2024
U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud for the District of Minnesota determined that the plaintiffs failed to affirmatively demonstrate the class was so numerous and joinder of all members is impracticable under Rule 23(a)(1), that the representative parties will adequately protect the interests of the class under Rule 23(a)(4), or that questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members under Rule 23(b)(3).
By Kat Black | July 3, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas E. L. Dewey | July 3, 2024
In 'In re Tenaris S.A. Securities Litigation', Judge Kiyo Matsumoto found that the proposed settlement satisfied both procedural and substantive fairness. As to procedural fairness, the court found that the settlement resulted from arm's-length negotiations enhanced by substantial discovery and that lead plaintiffs and lead counsel had adequately represented the settlement class because they had engaged in "vigorous advocacy" on its behalf.
By Matthew J. Malinowski, Gary Feldon and Sebastian Ovalle | July 2, 2024
A new wave of litigation about PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has begun. If it gains momentum, it could be the biggest yet.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Emily Cousins | July 1, 2024
"My team filed multiple class actions in sequence because the defendants were paying off lead plaintiffs multiple times what their claims were worth," Richard Hayber said. "Someone else in the class would hire us, and we filed a new lawsuit. We argued that each successive class action tolls the statute, and the judge ruled that the tolling can only occur once."
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Adam J. Levitt | July 1, 2024
Arguing Class Actions is a monthly column by Adam J. Levitt for the National Law Journal.
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