By Raychel Lean | January 25, 2019
It began with a text offering Palm Beach resident Jody Steward a free bottle of water, but could end as a nationwide class action to get gym operator Planet Fitness to pay more than $5 million in damages for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Larry E. Coben | January 25, 2019
The marketing of safe products should ordinarily include all the available safety features warranted to protect consumers from harm. When a manufacturer decides to make safety an option, then it takes the risk that it will be liable for harm caused by putting profits before safety.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 25, 2019
Seven retired federal judges, including former Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, filed an amicus brief in a class action over PACER fees now on appeal.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jacob Lehman and Mike Dolan | January 25, 2019
Think back (fondly) to your civil procedure course. In order for a dispute to be litigated in a court, the court must have jurisdiction over the parties. There are two types of jurisdiction, subject matter and personal.
By Ian Ballon and Rebekah Guyon | January 25, 2019
The CCPA is extremely broad in scope compared to other U.S. privacy laws; it applies to the use of personal information about California residents—rather than regulating the use, collection and dissemination of information obtained by companies from consumers.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen J. Finley and Jonathan T. Woy | January 25, 2019
Five years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court undertook to modernize Pennsylvania products liability law in its seminal decision of Tincher v. Omega Flex, 104 A.3d 328 (Pa. 2014).
By Aleeza Furman | January 24, 2019
Atkinson Andelson defends the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District against a class action over school supplies, and other midsize firm work.
By Colby Hamilton | January 24, 2019
The federal judge took Gaia Holdings to task for its late attempts to get a slice of the multimillion dollar settlement of Bank of America's actions ahead of the burst of the housing bubble.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kevin C. Alexandersen | January 24, 2019
It has become commonplace in many jurisdictions for plaintiffs attorneys to make settlement demands far in excess of the verdict potential—hoping a defendant will throw settlement dollars in an effort to bring a reasonable number to resolve the case.
By Jenna Greene | January 24, 2019
A class action can have it all—thousands of potential members, a common grievance, solid lead plaintiffs, highly skilled counsel—and still fall apart if the expert witness can't deliver.
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