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The Legal Intelligencer

To Poach or Not to Poach: Franchise No-Poach Clauses Under Scrutiny

Franchise systems, and many licensing arrangements contain anti-poaching provisions. These provisions are being tested under the antitrust laws as being anticompetitive.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Keurig Dr. Pepper In-House Leader Joins Coty as Chief Lawyer

Kristin Blazewicz starts her new job with the global beauty products company on March 15 and will be based in Amsterdam. She succeeds Greer McMullen, "who has decided to leave the company," according to an announcement on Monday.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Up the Stakes With New Cases on 'Faithless' Electors and ACA Contraceptives

The justices added an Obamacare contraception case from Pennsylvania, and the court will hear a dispute over federal electors who do not support the candidate who won the state's vote.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Gilead Invokes Legal Industry Noncompete Contracts to Fight Antitrust Claims

White & Case's Christopher Curran equated the arrangement over HIV medication to agreements by lawyers within a law firm not to compete with each other for clients.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Liability for Failure to Include Collision Avoidance Systems

The advancement of collision avoidance technology opens new areas to find compensation for seriously injured plaintiffs.
12 minute read

Law.com

Critical Mass: Hotels Slam Door on Sex Trafficking MDL. Why Ikea Paid $46M to Settle This Wrongful Death Case. States Get Heated Up Over Climate Change Cases.

Attorneys for dozens of hotel chains across the country are fighting a request from the plaintiffs' bar to coordinate all the lawsuits alleging they violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act by renting rooms to people known to engage in sex trafficking.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Arnold & Porter, Dentons Go After Plaintiffs Lawyers for Ginning Up Hawaii Plavix Suit

'Before private law firms approached the Attorney General proposing that the state hire them on a contingency fee basis...the state had exhibited no concern about the issue of variability of response to Plavix,' lawyers for the drug makers wrote.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ikea Settles Fatal Dresser Tip-Over Case for $46M

Feldman Shepherd attorney Alan Feldman said the agreement marks the largest settlement in the country in a wrongful death case involving a toddler.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Coppertone Makers Hit With Class Action Over 'Mineral-Based' Sunscreen Label

The suit against Bayer Healthcare and skincare company Beiersdorf claims that Coppertone products promoted as mineral-based in some instances have a larger percentage of chemical active ingredients than mineral active ingredients.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Pfizer Sued Over Zantac Ingredient Plaintiffs Call 'Unfit for Human Consumption'

The lawsuit, which estimates a proposed class in the "tens of thousands," alleged breaches of warranty, unjust enrichment, fraud, fraudulent concealment and violations of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
3 minute read

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