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Hyundai, Kia Settle Anti-Theft Lawsuits for $200M

Lawsuits were filed after viral videos on TikTok and YouTube demonstrated how to steal Kia and Hyundai vehicles with the use of a USB cord.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Companies Pushing Back Against FTC's Voluminous Records Requests

Total Wine & More argues the FTC has gone way overboard with document requests for the agency's probe of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, one of its suppliers. Firms targeted or on the periphery of other inquiries also are complaining.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Rejects Elon Musk's Effort to Remove Tesla Lawyers' Supervision of Tweets

A three-judge panel ruled in a summary order that ruled that U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman did not abuse his discretion when he denied Musk's request to modify the consent decree.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Panel Appears Skeptical of Elon Musk's Effort to Remove Tesla Tweet Monitor

The Tesla CEO's Quinn Emanuel lawyers argued that the preapproval requirement is a form of prior restraint violating Musk's First Amendment rights, but Circuit Judge Reena Raggi asked why Musk would have agreed to the consent decree at all.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'We Were Suspicious': $105M Settlement After Lawyers 'Sniff Out' Withheld Discovery

"Parties should not withhold evidence and make misrepresentations," said plaintiff attorney E. Michael Moran of Law & Moran in Atlanta. "If it comes out, then you're in a position where you're having to enter into a very large settlement."
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Deeply Divided Court: Justices Split on 'Highly Unusual' Jurisdiction in VW, Audi Suit

"The determinative question is whether the manufacturers' contacts with Texas, accomplished through direct and indirect control over instrumentalities and intermediaries, satisfy constitutional requisites to exercising specific personal jurisdiction. They do."
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Class Action Alleges Audi Alternators Are Faulty in Some Vehicles

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the document here.
1 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Case of Worker Who Tested Positive for Cannabis Spotlights Potential Risks for Employers

"Workers in New Jersey have the constitutional right to get high on their own supply on their free time, and by law, cannot be fired just because they have traces of cannabis in their system weeks or months after such use," Yitzchak Zelman, the plaintiff's lawyer, said.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

With Carlton Fields at Its Side, BASF Unleashes Slew of Litigation in Florida

"Assuming the facts as they've alleged are true, there aren't going to be a lot of defenses," said Benjamin Widlanski, a Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton partner, who is not involved in the litigation.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Obermayer Sued for Legal Malpractice, Misrepresentation by Car Loan Provider

Dominion Management Services and its leaders accused the firm and partner Walter Cohen, a former Pennsylvania attorney general, of botching the defense of a state usury enforcement action.
5 minute read

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