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The Recorder

5 Things to Know About Apple's $500M Throttling Settlement

Apple Inc. has agreed to pay between $310 million and $500 million to settle class actions alleging that it surreptitiously slowed older iPhones with software upgrades. The deal would include potentially $25 payments to class members and $93 million in attorney fees.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Coronavirus Fraud: A GC's Guide to Potential Schemes

Fear and confusion create a climate ripe for fraud. And global companies with deep pockets are prime targets. Here are some potential schemes in house counsel should prepare for.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

$3M South Florida Tobacco Verdict Survives Challenge, Ignites Conflict With Sister Court

The case tested the limits of detrimental reliance, raising questions about the extent to which a plaintiff must show that a tobacco company misled a smoker.
4 minute read

Law.com

Opioid Manufacturer Mallinckrodt Reaches $1.6B Global Settlement

Mallinckrodt's "settlement framework" resolves thousands of claims brought by cities and counties in the multidistrict litigation and has the support of 47 attorneys general from states and U.S. territories.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Special Section: Liquor Law

In The Legal's Liquor Law supplement, learn about the newest trend on the market: alcoholic slushies, the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's Tennessee Retailers' decision and the crafty ways liquor licenses are transferred in the state.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Internet Expansion Has Made Brand Protection Increasingly Difficult for Fashion Attorneys

"The internet is the problem," Javier Diaz, associate general counsel at Chanel, quipped at the symposium. "It is harder and harder to distinguish an authentic product from a counterfeit these days."
3 minute read

The Recorder

Volkswagen Consumers in 'Clean Diesel' Trial Seek to Disqualify Judge Breyer

Volkswagen consumers who opted out of the "clean diesel" class action settlements have filed a motion to disqualify U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer from next week's trial, citing potential bias. Volkswagen, in a response filed Thursday, called the motion "baseless and unwarranted."
5 minute read

The Recorder

20 Lawyers Picked to Lead Juul Lawsuits in California State Courts

In a Tuesday order, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann Jones appointed a 20-lawyer team in the California state court lawsuits against San Francisco's Juul Labs. They included Los Angeles-area attorneys Paul Kiesel and Mark Robinson as co-leads for individuals, and John Fiske and Rahul Ravipudi for pubic entities, such as school districts.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Could Federal Preemption Blow Up a $289M Roundup Verdict?

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.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In $750M Talc Verdict, Lawyers Fought to the Finish

In the final hours before the jury's verdict on Thursday, lawyers had raised objections and a mistrial motion, and the judge made two curative instructions for the jury to ignore the attacks the attorneys had made about each other.
5 minute read

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