By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | August 7, 2020
Florida real estate broker sues the personal injury lawyers and their firms, alleging they mishandled his claims for more than $2 million in economic damages from the oil spill.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Richard S. Taffet and Jonathan Justl | August 7, 2020
Is an indirect purchaser antitrust class properly certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) where it includes at least 55,000 concededly uninjured members, corresponding to 5.7% of the entire class? The Eastern District of New York recently answered yes.
By Tom McParland | August 6, 2020
An independent federal monitor overseeing the agreement has since found that the average monthly use-of-force rate by correction officers on Rikers had more than doubled between 2016 and 2020.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | Amanda Bronstad | August 6, 2020
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle's decision, finding that the judge "got it just right."
By Amanda Bronstad | August 5, 2020
In a Wednesday order, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation rejected requests from plaintiffs' lawyers to coordinate cases on behalf of agents against more than 200 banks across the nation. The sheer number of defendants posed a problem for the panel.
By Dylan Jackson | August 5, 2020
Drawn by the bevy of class action lawsuits filed against Bay Area tech companies, Florida-based plaintiffs goliath Morgan & Morgan has hired away two Robins Kaplan attorneys to lead the firm's new San Francisco office.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 5, 2020
In its first orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation refused on Wednesday to coordinate cases brought against banks over their handling of COVID-19 relief loans to small businesses, citing the small number of cases and varied experiences of the plaintiff applicants.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 5, 2020
Plaintiffs' lawyers had split over where the TikTok cases should go: Illinois, home to the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act, one of the strictest statutes protecting biometric data; or California, where TikTok and its Beijing parent company, ByteDance, have U.S. locations.
By Dan Clark | August 5, 2020
"That is how they're constructing that fact pattern into what was supposed to be a clear data breach," Dominique Shelton Leipzig, a partner at Perkins Coie in Los Angeles, said. "The private right of action was supposed to limited to a negligent breach."
By Amanda Bronstad | August 4, 2020
As the political debate deepens over who should own TikTok, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent nearly 20 privacy class actions against the Chinese-based media app to Illinois, which has one of the strictest laws protecting biometric data.
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