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Jury Rejects Internet Defamation Suit GETTING GRADED
In one of the first trials in the country to address Internet defamation, a Dallas County, Texas, jury last week rejected a $700 million suit by an Internet company that claimed it was harmed by negative electronic messages posted by an employee of a competing company.Banks, Audit Firm Battle Over Millions Lost on Loan
In a bid to head off a long, costly trial, attorneys for PricewaterhouseCoopers and an international syndicate of lenders played out parts of their dispute before a Georgia jury last week. The rarely used proceeding -- a summary jury trial -- is non-binding, but attorneys on both sides say the run-throughs have helped guide them in their mediation efforts. The banks claim they lost millions on bad loans after the audit firm allegedly failed to meet its duties.Philadelphia Judge Awards Wal-Mart Workers $62M More
A Philadelphia judge has awarded an additional $62 million in statutory liquidated damages to 124,506 current and former Pennsylvania employees of retail titan Wal-Mart who a Philadelphia jury found were not properly compensated for off-the-clock work and missed rest breaks. The common pleas court judge awarded the liquidated damages to those eligible plaintiffs who worked after Jan. 1, 2002; the jury had previously awarded the entire class of 186,000 plaintiffs $78.5 million in compensatory damages.Federal Judge Recertifies Class in Comcast Antitrust Case
A federal judge has once again certified a class action antitrust suit against cable television giant Comcast, declaring that the plaintiffs have succeeded in satisfying a new, stricter class action test imposed last year by the 3rd Circuit. The suit alleges the company set out to establish a monopoly in the Philadelphia market. Comcast and its would-be competitors, the suit alleges, struck a series of deals in which they "swapped" assets and customers so that each company would have "clusters" of markets.
A New Field But Same Game for Class Actions
The day President Bush signed the Class Action Fairness Act into law, Madison County plaintiffs lawyer Stephen Tillery was rushing to file nine class actions in state court before the law took effect. A few days later, John Beisner used Tillery's last-minute offensive as an example of the legislation's salutary effects: Tillery, Beisner says, missed the filing deadline. His class actions, like most others in the nation, will likely be removed to federal court -- which is where tort reformers want them.Motion to Dismiss Fails in Closely-Watched Comcast Antitrust Suit
Comcast suffered a significant setback last week when a federal judge refused to dismiss a class action antitrust suit that accuses the company of setting out to establish monopolies in the Philadelphia and Chicago markets, then increasing prices once it had eliminated all the competition. The suit could reverberate throughout the cable industry because it alleges that many of the big cable companies cooperated in carving up much of the nation into separate markets where each would be an exclusive provider.
Judge approves discovery agreement in Toyota MDL
The judge in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden unintended acceleration approved a joint discovery plan on Tuesday, forestalling a fight over access to evidence. The agreement allows Toyota's lawyers to investigate the vehicles at issue and plaintiffs' attorneys to depose executives about the automaker's electronic throttle control system.Trending Stories
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