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Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Matthew J. Malinowski, Gary Feldon and Sebastian Ovalle | July 2, 2024
A new wave of litigation about PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has begun. If it gains momentum, it could be the biggest yet.
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By Emily Cousins | July 1, 2024
"My team filed multiple class actions in sequence because the defendants were paying off lead plaintiffs multiple times what their claims were worth," Richard Hayber said. "Someone else in the class would hire us, and we filed a new lawsuit. We argued that each successive class action tolls the statute, and the judge ruled that the tolling can only occur once."
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By Adam J. Levitt | July 1, 2024
Arguing Class Actions is a monthly column by Adam J. Levitt for the National Law Journal.
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By Maria Dinzeo | July 1, 2024
Volkswagen Group of America CEO Pablo Di Si said Antony Klapper is "collaborative, proactive and full of team spirit, and that's in addition to his wealth of knowledge and experience in the automotive industry."
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By Kat Black | June 28, 2024
A Los Angeles jury ordered the NFL on Thursday to pay $4.7 billion in damages to residential subscribers and $96 million to businesses. Federal antitrust law could treble the damages to more than $14 billion.
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By Emily Cousins | June 28, 2024
"The litigation is driving the PFAS manufacturers to stop making them, which trickles down as a supply chain obsolescence issue," industry consultant Cally Egdren said.
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By Cheryl Miller | June 27, 2024
Paul Paradis, testifying from a Colorado federal prison, told a State Bar Court that Feuer knew about plans to use a lawsuit over a botched utility billing system as a vehicle to settle litigation on terms favorable to Los Angeles.
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By Kat Black | June 27, 2024
The original complaint, filed in 2015, demanded up to $7 billion in damages for class action members.
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By Kat Black | June 27, 2024
The original complaint, filed in 2015, demanded up to $7 billion in damages for class action members.
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By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | June 25, 2024
"This agreement is the culmination of more than three decades of hard-fought litigation combating race discrimination," class counsel David Sanford said in a statement, "and the settlement will provide meaningful relief for African Americans in the Marshals Service and those denied an opportunity to become Marshals."
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