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The Colorado attorney general asked a state court to compel an extended auto warranty company to comply with an investigative subpoena issued more than a year ago, alleging the company failed to honor consumers' data privacy rights and has repeatedly stonewalled the state's investigation.
Luxottica and a former worker who challenged the company's methodology for paying annuity benefits agreed Wednesday to resolve a proposed class action, a month after the nation's highest court declined the eyewear maker's bid to review a Second Circuit ruling keeping some of her claims out of arbitration.
Amazon Fresh misclassified salaried assistant store managers as overtime-exempt while assigning them routine store work, according to a proposed collective action filed by a former manager in Washington federal court Wednesday.
A Washington federal jury has found Walmart on the hook for retaliating against a former store employee who claimed she was fired for standing up for colleagues who were sexually harassed by another co-worker, awarding the plaintiff $23 million in damages.
A west Michigan township has told a federal judge that a local cannabis business alleging the township improperly refused to issue it a permit and prevented it from opening in fact missed the deadline for the permit in question.
Athletic apparel company Gymshark pays an "army" of social media influencers to promote its products online without disclosing the ad partnership to viewers, claims a proposed class action filed in New York federal court.
A mediator told a Texas federal court on Wednesday that cheerleading competition organizers and national cheer governing body U.S. All Star Federation Inc. were unable to reach a settlement this month of the organizers' antitrust lawsuit.
Apple and Google urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject consumers' request to depose their respective CEOs, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, and other executives in antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines, arguing that the appeal is unwarranted and the repeated deposition demands are unjustified "harassment."
A pickleball paddle maker has reached a settlement with one of the companies it targeted at the U.S. International Trade Commission with claims of infringing a patent, removing the rival from the probe.
Goodwin Procter LLP is advising Tripadvisor Inc. on its agreement to sell TheFork, an online restaurant reservation and management platform in Europe, to American Express for $700 million.
A UPS package driver asked a Colorado federal court to certify a class of over 12,000 union workers who allege the delivery giant failed to provide paid sick leave as required under state law, arguing the company's uniform statewide policies make the case well-suited for class treatment.
New Jersey officials are declaring war on "junk fees" in the state with tighter regulation and enforcement, the latest state-level move to step up consumer protection efforts amid the Trump administration's pullback at agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The maker of cannabis-infused beverage Brez intentionally concealed automatic renewal terms on its website in "small" gray font in order to charge an online shopper a recurring $54.21 subscription fee, according to a Los Angeles County lawsuit, which will be getting a new judge, according to a Monday order.
Amazon has urged a Seattle federal court to toss three YouTube creators' proposed Digital Millennium Copyright Act class action that accuses the e-commerce giant of scraping millions of copyright-protected videos to train its generative artificial intelligence model Nova Reel, saying the YouTubers' failure to link it to certain datasets makes their allegations "entirely speculative."
A Minnesota state judge on Monday upheld a $65.5 million verdict awarded to a mother of three children who had claimed that Johnson & Johnson's talc products exposed her to asbestos and contributed to her cancer, saying that the jury's decision was supported by the evidence at trial.
The maker of Fusion skill game platforms has accused a Philadelphia route operator and his company of selling hacked and counterfeit versions of its game systems on eBay and Facebook Marketplace, alleging in a federal lawsuit that the knockoffs duplicate its copyrighted artwork and registered trademarks.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said Tuesday that it will review portions of an administrative law judge's decision finding two companies infringed two Razor USA LLC patents for self-balancing hoverboards.
Illinois will tax digital advertising, social media platforms, cryptocurrency, prediction markets and more under a nearly $56 billion budget signed Tuesday by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.
A mistrial was declared Monday by a Los Angeles state judge in a two-month trial over allegations Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused a woman's deadly mesothelioma after the jury deadlocked during deliberations, according to counsel for the plaintiff.
Canned fruits and vegetables giant Del Monte Foods Inc. stands to make a "windfall" through refunds of President Donald Trump's now-invalidated global tariff regime, according to a proposed class action filed in New York federal court seeking refunds for customers.
Virginia's governor and lawmakers on Tuesday announced an agreement to tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis with sales beginning in July 2027.
Grant & Eisenhofer PA and Boyden Gray PLLC will lead a group of shareholders suing Target Corp. over its Pride-themed merchandise that they claim was "exceptionally offensive" and "betrayed" investors.
Consumers want a California federal judge to preserve their antitrust claims accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines that offer better privacy safeguards and no ads, arguing they don't yet need to articulate damages each has borne because it's "impossible" for them not to have been harmed.
The former president of a company connected to the Josh Cellars wine brand says his attorney's messages to his wife are privileged because she participated in the communications as his "agent," a characterization the company appeared poised to dispute as the parties approach a $4 million trademark royalties trial.
A GameStop stockholder has filed a class action in Delaware Chancery Court seeking to block shareholder votes tied to CEO Ryan Cohen's potential $35 billion compensation package and a plan to more than double the company's authorized shares, alleging GameStop unlawfully changed voting rules to secure approval.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently issued investigative demands to five major music streaming platforms, appearing to invoke the payola concept as a consumer protection theory against the streaming business, a novel application that could extend to other companies monetizing on ranking, visibility or recommendation placement, say attorneys at Benesch.
Opinion
A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.
Both billing for hours saved using artificial intelligence and preserving billable time by not adopting AI may violate rules of professional conduct, but until bar associations' ethics rules catch up to this emerging economic dilemma, firms must decide how to adjust fee structures themselves, says Ines Lassalle at Peyrot & Associates.
A California appeals court's recent decision in Husband v. Target, addressing when an employer knows about an employee's undisclosed disability, leaves open questions about how changes in mental health awareness and workforce monitoring tools may raise the bar for what employers can claim not to know, says Benjamin Heller at RFZ Law.
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Vericool World v. Igloo Products that Vericool's claim of being first-to-market with an ecocooler was not actionable under the Lanham Act largely foreclosed false advertising litigation over first mover status, so potential plaintiffs should instead look to patent counseling or intellectual property strategy for these claims, say attorneys at Manatt.
As juvenile product manufacturers and retailers face heightened U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission enforcement actions and attendant litigation risks, companies must not only comply with applicable standards, but also confront the problem of how to protect themselves when there are no standards to comply with, say attorneys at Chamberlain Hrdlicka.
Series
Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.
With California poised to add welding chemicals and three medications to its list of known carcinogens under Proposition 65, businesses must assess risks from nontraditional pharmaceutical dispensing, occupational and environmental exposures to welding operations, and downstream exposures from the manufacture of both types of substances, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's recent veto of legislation that would have established a regulated retail cannabis framework halts momentum built by the General Assembly, but it also sends important signals about what a future regulatory framework must address to survive, says Charles Slemp at Cozen.
Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.
A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent fining of Foot Locker for its separation agreements is a reminder that the commission remains serious about maintaining open channels for reporting whistleblower concerns and that provisions can violate Rule 21F-17(a) without specifically barring communications with the SEC, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
Series
Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.
As state oversight of cosmetics rapidly expands, the new statutes and regulations governing these products are being implemented by environmental agencies rather than consumer product regulators, requiring manufacturers, distributors and retailers to reevaluate their supply chains and procedures, say attorneys at Baker Botts.
Series
Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.
