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.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 10, 2020
In a brief before California's First District Court of Appeal on Friday, Bayer insisted that "egregious and pervasive misconduct" by plaintiffs counsel infected the trial.
By Tom McParland | February 7, 2020
The parties were in court for an initial conference in the case, which alleges causes of action for unfair and deceptive practices in violation of various state consumer protection statutes, negligence and unjust enrichment.
By Milton Springut | February 7, 2020
Surprisingly, there are few cases that have considered liability of retailers who sell products with (allegedly) false or misleading labels under the Lanham Act, or who engage in other promotional acts related to third-party products. Recently, however, two cases have addressed these issues in the context of both brick-and-mortar and online retail outlets.
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By Robert Storace | February 7, 2020
Connecticut legal experts discussed the ramifications on attorneys of the possibility that the state Legislature and Gov. Ned Lamont would sign off on approving recreational marijuana use.
By Alaina Lancaster | February 6, 2020
The Second District Court of Appeal upheld a ruling dismissing a class action against a tangerine juice-maker accused of fraudulently branding its product as "No Sugar Added"—not because the juice contained sugar but because it implied that competitors' products might.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 6, 2020
The judge in the case is likely to slash the punitive damages award to $185 million.
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