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Meta Blasts FTC After Agency Moves to Block It From Monetizing Child and Teen Data

"Let's be clear about what the FTC is trying to do: usurp the authority of Congress to set industry-wide standards and instead single out one American company while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil," a Meta spokesperson said.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Partially Vacates Dismissal, Sends Young Living Essential Oils Class Action Back to District Court

In the case of Young Living's statements that its oils are "therapeutic-grade" and have health and medicinal benefits, the statements are "both provable and not 'patently hyperbolic,'" Circuit Judge Myrna Pérez wrote.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Fresh 'Billable Hours Requirement': Horn Williamson Managing Partner Earns His Wharton MBA

Ryan Lockman built a model to determine how to balance his time between completing required hours at his firm and managing his homework.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

'You Don't Have to Have a Code Violation': $11M Pre-Lawsuit Settlement in Miami

"Trial lawyers representing severely injured clients, like this one, have a duty to look beyond the code," said Michael Haggard of the Haggard Law Firm.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Morgan Lewis Lands 10 Stroock Consumer Finance Lawyers on Both Coasts

Five lawyers, including three partners, have already arrived at Morgan Lewis. The new arrivals will be based in New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles and Century City.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Class Action Accuses Travelers Insurance of Inflating Homeowner Premiums

The liability limits sold to the class representative were approximately 4.5% higher than they would have been had defendants based those limits on reconstruction cost without debris removal, the suit alleged.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Appeals Court Finds Verizon Arbitration Agreement 'Unconscionable' and a Violation of State Public Policy

"According to AAA, the average consumer arbitration requires 6.9 months to complete," Judge Stephanie Ann Mitterhoff wrote. "Plaintiffs' counsel, DeNittis Osefchen Prince, represented an additional 2,537 Verizon customers who had already filed claims against defendants."
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Hurdle for Insurers: Intent to Deceive Required for Denying Life Insurance Policy

American National Insurance Co. asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare that the "intent to deceive" element is no longer good law.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Equifax and Portfolio Recovery Associates Sued for Violation of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Law.com

'All or Nothing': Plaintiffs' Talc Expert Pressed to Provide Names in Groundbreaking Report

U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, is set to decide whether plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline must disclose the 33 individuals in her 2019 article, one of the first to link cosmetic talcum powder to mesothelioma.
7 minute read

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