By Amanda Bronstad | October 24, 2018
A San Francisco judge slashed a $289 million Roundup verdict, but her decision left plaintiffs' lawyers cheering as it accepted punitive damages as justified.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 23, 2018
The settlement, filed in court on Monday, includes a $50 million fund from which consumers can file claims to be reimbursed, credit monitoring and $35 million in attorney fees.
By Jenna Greene | October 19, 2018
'From the very start of the case, we hit hard on our theme that this case was a fraud perpetrated by plaintiffs' lawyers for money.'
By Andrew Denney | October 15, 2018
After a five-week trial and 23 total hours of deliberations spread over four days, a jury of 11 found against cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds on claims of defective design, fraud failure to adequately warn and in favor of the family of the late Louis Summerlin, a longtime smoker who worked for years as an automotive brake mechanic.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 11, 2018
After two mistrials in similar cases that had juries in Los Angeles deliberating for days, a New Jersey jury took just half an hour to decide that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder did not cause a woman to get mesothelioma.
By Ross Todd | October 9, 2018
A federal judge in San Jose has certified separate classes of consumers who bought six- and 12-packs of the Hawaiian-themed Kona Brewing Co. line of beers, which predominantly come from breweries in Oregon, Washington, New Hampshire and Tennessee.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Kristen D. Perkins and Paige S. Newman | October 9, 2018
Article III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against disabled persons in the full and equal enjoyment of public accommodation. When a website is considered a place of public accommodation, the website must be accessible to people with disabilities.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 5, 2018
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer refused to dismiss a class action on behalf of consumers who sold their Volkswagen vehicles before Sept. 18, 2015.
By Ross Todd | October 4, 2018
A Ninth Circuit Panel held that federal food labeling laws—which required The Kroger Co. to put "0g Trans Fat per serving" on the back nutrition panels of items when they contained less than .5g per serving—didn't preempt state law claims over misleadingly touting zero grams elsewhere on the packaging.
By Raychel Lean | October 3, 2018
Three coconut water consumers claimed that Vita Coco's "Born in Brazil" slogan was misleading as the company sourced the majority of its coconuts from elsewhere, but a federal judge disagreed, stating that, "AMI has not forced the plaintiff to buy Vita Coco."
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