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The Recorder

Choice-of-Law Stipulation Doesn't Salvage Unenforceable Contract, Second District Says

"No California case yet has directly addressed whether a stipulation to apply California law renders an otherwise unenforceable forum selection clause enforceable," Justice John Segal wrote. "We hold it does not."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Mass Torts Litigator Ken Murphy Returns to Big Law

The longtime partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath moved to the Tucker Law Group in 2022. Now he's eager to resume defending larger clients at DLA Piper.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

FTC's Crackdown on Fake Reviews: A Task for Sisyphus

In his Technology Law column, Peter Brown discusses how fake reviews and testimonials have polluted the marketplace, resulting in misleading advertising and unfair competition.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

4 Law Firms Back Texas AG Suit on Insulin Price-Gouging Allegations

The state alleges this insulin pricing scheme violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, constitutes unjust enrichment, and represents an unlawful civil conspiracy.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FTC Goes After AI Tool That Has Capability to Mass Produce Fake Reviews

"Treating as categorically illegal a generative AI tool merely because of the possibility that someone might use it for fraud is inconsistent with our precedents and common sense," GOP Commissioner Andrew Ferguson said in his dissent.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Real Estate Consumer Protection Enhancement Act Brings Industry Change

"Real estate professionals should take extra care to educate themselves and to comply with the provisions of the Act, recognizing the potential for increased exposure and liability," writes Iram P. Valentin.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Newsom Signs Lemon Law Changes Into Law, Averting Threatened Tort War

Gov. Gavin Newsom's approval of AB 1755 means business groups will stop threatening to place a contingency fee cap initiative before voters in 2026 and plaintiffs attorneys won't reciprocate with their own ballot measure.
3 minute read

Law.com

DoorDash Seeks More Information About NLJ 500 Firm's Connections With Chicago

"The question of whether retained counsel is financially interested in the outcome of the litigation may involve a wider range of materials than the retention agreement alone," U.S. District Judge Jeremy C. Daniel said. "For example, even if the agreement contains adequate safeguards, the arrangement may still violate DoorDash's due process rights if DoorDash presents evidence the city failed to exercise 'absolute and total control over all critical decision-making.'"
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Rejects Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Attempt to Reschedule Upcoming Trial Against Panera's Charged Lemonade

"Defense counsel's whimsical treatment of scheduled trial dates as tentative and subject to change is why the parties are now in a difficult—but not insoluble—position,'" said U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC Takes Legal Action Against Three Largest PBMs Over High Insulin Prices

"Millions of Americans with diabetes need insulin to survive, yet for many of these vulnerable patients, their insulin drug costs have skyrocketed over the past decade thanks in part to powerful PBMs and their greed," said Rahul Rao, deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition.
6 minute read

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