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National Law Journal

Jilted Lawyer Loses Bid to Sue Client Who Fired Him

When Patricia Moulton Partee decided to switch lawyers for a class action against Johnson & Johnson, the jilted attorney, Steven M. Johnson of Texas, sued her. The suit, filed in August in Texas Northern District Court, was dismissed by a federal judge on Nov. 26 on personal jurisdiction ground.
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National Law Journal

Papa John's Tax Class Plaintiffs Seek Summary Judgment

A newly certified class of Florida customers of Papa John's pizza restaurants has asked a federal judge to grant them summary judgment in their action over the company's allegedly unlawful addition of 21 cents in state taxes to individual pizza delivery bills.
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National Law Journal

NLJ Op-Ed Collection: The Most Read of 2014

NLJ op-ed writers confronted a range of issues this year, including law students' push to delay exams; U.S. Supreme Court secrecy; surveillance; public access to information about drones; the death penalty; compensation for law firm leaders; and affirmative action.
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National Law Journal

FDA Issues Warning on Nonmedical Fetal Ultrasound Use

The U.S. Food and Drug Administation has issued an alert urging consumers urging to avoid using fetal ultrasound imaging and heartbeat monitors for nonmedical reasons such as creating "keepsake images and videos."
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National Law Journal

Bulk of 'Killzone' Complaint Stands Against Sony

Sony Computer Entertainment America failed to persuade a federal judge to discard a proposed class action alleging the company fraudulently induced PlayStation players to buy “Killzone: Shadow Fall” by vastly overstating the much-anticipated game's graphics capabilities.
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Litigation Daily

Cymbalta Plaintiffs Falter as Lilly Beats 'Brain Zaps' Class Action

Eli Lilly's defense lawyers at Covington & Burling are on a roll in a string of lawsuits accusing the drug maker of misrepresenting the withdrawal risks of its blockbuster antidepressant, Cymbalta.
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National Law Journal

Asset Seizures Gone Wrong

In 2014, the FTC won asset freezes coupled with temporary restraining orders in 29 cases naming 145 companies and 82 individuals, a 45 percent increase from 2013, according to an analysis by The National Law Journal.
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Litigation Daily

Cohen Milstein Partner Dominates Report on State AG Contingency Litigation

Former Washington, D.C., attorney general Linda Singer bore the brunt of a skeptical New York Times report on private firms that coax state AGs into action.
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Litigation Daily

Target Suffers New Blow in Data Breach Case

Just weeks after Target Corp. failed to escape claims that it's liable for a massive data breach that cost banks billions of dollars, a judge refused to dismiss most of a proposed consumer class action over the same late-2013 hack attack.
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National Law Journal

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Target Data-Breach Class Action

In its attempt to toss out a sweeping class action filed over last holiday season's massive data breach, Target Corp. didn't get exactly what it wanted.
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