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The Recorder

Unlikely Duo Joins Volkswagen Fray

Hagens Berman and Quinn Emanuel have teamed up in a nationwide class action against the automaker.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Peachtree Settlement Funding, LLC

By | September 29, 2015
Court Finds Proposed Transfer of Structured Settlement Not in Payee's Best Interest, Unfair
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In re Chocolate Confectionery Antitrust Litig., PICS Case No. 15-1468 (3d Cir. Sept. 15, 2015) Fisher, J. (52 pages).

By | September 29, 2015
Allegations that American manufacturers possessed the motive to engage in price fixing, that prices rose and that executives elsewhere engaged in price fixing, may be insufficient to raise an inference that American manufacturers also engaged in price fixing. Judgment affirmed.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Magic Diet Powder Didn't Work? Tell Anyone and We'll Sue You

It sounds great: Mix a powder in your drink and lose up to 21 pounds a month. Eat chocolate cake and ice cream and all the foods you love! The success rate is 90 percent! Or so claimed Roca Labs Inc., which was sued by the Federal Trade Commission last week in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida for deceptive advertising. But this case has a twist.
4 minute read

The Recorder

In re Tobacco Cases II

By | September 28, 2015
4 minute read

Law.com

Cotchett Adds to Pile of Suits Against VW

Firm puts a pair of Stanford professors in the drivers seat of a suit over the automaker's cheat on emissions tests.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens Asks Judge to Revisit Garnishment Law Takedown

Saying Georgia's courts "have scrambled to comply" with the "sweeping mandate" of a federal judge's order declaring the state's garnishment law unconstitutional, Attorney General Sam Olens has asked the judge to reconsider.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Winners & Losers

By | September 25, 2015
1 minute read

Law.com

Guess Who's Asking for a Criminal Probe of Volkswagen? The Automaker Itself

Volkswagen AG and its U.S. general counsel, David Geanacopoulos, are not opposing a criminal investigation into its emission scandal. In fact, the German-based automaker is filing its own criminal complaint with German prosecutors.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

How to Avoid Run-ins with State AGs, the New Cops on the Block

A significant shift has occurred in our consumer protection regulatory regime, having to do in part with how laws are now being enforced--and who is doing the enforcing and the setting of policy.
8 minute read

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