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Corporate Counsel

'Diversity Champion' Recognized That Employer Needed a New Way of Hiring

Suzanne Rich Folsom's efforts to improve diversity at Philip Morris International amid a dramatic shift in strategy earned her Corporate Counsel's 2023 Champion of Diversity Award.
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The Recorder

Objectors in $725M Facebook Settlement Combat 'Absurd' $8,500 Appeal Bonds

Objector lawyers who have challenged numerous Big Tech privacy settlements are fighting back against paying $8,500 bonds before appealing approval of a $725 million class action deal with Facebook's Meta Platforms Inc.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ailing Tupperware Rehires Legal Chief After Replacing CEO

Karen Sheehan's return to the C-suite gives Tupperware continuity during a period of upheaval. The company's new CEO is its fourth since 2018.
3 minute read

Law.com

Judge OKs Personal Injury Suit Over Burger King's 'Impossible Whopper' Allegedly Embedded With Glass

"IFI takes issue with the fact that Howard pleads that either IFI or Nashville Quality, LLC were responsible for the accident or sabotage that resulted in glass in her food. IFI argues that '[b]ecause the allegations concede it is just as probable that the damages were caused by someone other than IFI and further fails to identify what IFI did or failed to do to cause the damages, the Complaint fails to state a plausible claim for relief.' ... This is wrong," District Judge Thomas T. Cullen for the Western District of Virginia wrote. "IFI conflates Howard's burden of proof with the pleading requirements.
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Law.com

$1.56B Roundup Verdict Was Fourth Against Bayer but First for This Plaintiffs Firm

Jay Utley and Bart Rankin, of Dallas-based Forrest Weldon Law Group, represented three plaintiffs diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Roundup trial—and their first mass tort case.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Class Action Claims J&J Spinoff Knew FDA Was Investigating Cold Medicine Drug Before IPO

Kenvue's brands with phenylephrine include Sudafed PE, Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion, and Tylenol Sinus + Headache.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pressure Washer Malfunction Led to Loss of Eye, Product Liability Lawsuit Claims

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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The Recorder

Johnson & Johnson Settles First Trials Since Failed Talc Bankruptcies

One trial, which opened Nov. 9, settled on Wednesday, according to court records, while another trial set to begin Nov. 13 settled after jurors were seated. The amounts of the settlements weren't disclosed.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Passion and Prejudice': Mitsubishi Seeks to Overturn Nearly $1B Defective Seatbelt Verdict

The filing comes on the heels of a motion for delay damages that seeks to raise the total award to more than $1 billion, and at a time when both sides are expanding their appellate firepower.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Rejects 'All or Nothing' Dismissals in Social Media Addiction Cases

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, in Oakland, California, found that some elements of social media sites like Facebook and TikTok were protected under the Communications Decency Act's Section 230, while others were not.
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