By Amanda Bronstad | February 18, 2020
Boeing goes to court on Wednesday to fight a subpoena to depose one of its executives in lawsuits brought over last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash involving its grounded 737 Max 8 aircraft. Plaintiffs' lawyers want to know why Boeing produced certain discovery materials to Congress but not to them.
By Angela Morris | February 18, 2020
The cases so far, which have been trickling in since late January and may not be the last, include plaintiffs who are online sports betters, a Houston Astros season-ticket holder and a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 14, 2020
In his Jan. 13 order approving the $1.4 billion class action settlement with Equifax, U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash lashed out at "professional objectors" in the case. "The court got bamboozled," one of the objectors wrote this week.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 14, 2020
A Tampa attorney and others who filed objections came in for criticism by the judge who approved the Equifax settlement.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | February 14, 2020
"Flagship's most recent press release reported that its portfolio of managed receivables has grown to $2.9 billion, so class members may reasonably be left wondering why a company with almost $3 billion in assets can only afford a $4 million settlement," the judge wrote.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Angela Turturro | February 14, 2020
After the Second Circuit's decision in 'Melito' (involving multiple text messages), the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision on standing under the TCPA in a case involving a single text message. In that case, 'Salcedo v. Hanna', the Eleventh Circuit ruled that a single text message did not afford standing to the plaintiff. In her Internet Issues/Social Media column, Shari Claire Lewis discusses the decision, concluding that at least one thing is clear: The issue of standing in text-related TCPA cases remains in flux.
By Sue Reisinger | February 12, 2020
Experts told Corporate Counsel on Wednesday that outside companies and their general counsel have three options: grant the exemption, fight the exemption in court, or try to negotiate a compromise.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 12, 2020
California's First District Court of Appeal ordered additional briefing on Monsanto's defense of federal preemption—an issue that could have wide ramifications for all Roundup lawsuits. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs' claims against federal preemption.
By Randy Gordon | February 12, 2020
Randy Gordon writes that we have entered a second Gilded Age and as such, we require a second iteration of trust busters. He argues that there are two schools of antitrust thought that have developed in the age of Google, Facebook and Amazon: the New Brandeis (also known as Hipster Antitrust) movement and proponents of the economics-influenced status quo.
By Ross Todd | February 11, 2020
A federal judge excluded Louis Freeh's expert opinion that the government's criminal case, which involved VW paying a $2.8 billion fine in 2017, settled too cheaply. The ruling mooted VW's motion to disqualify Freeh based on his earlier pitch to work for VW in the wake of its diesel emissions scandal.
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