Lawsuits

ESG and Class Action Lawsuits

2022 was a banner year for class action lawsuits. According to a Duane Morris analysis, “the aggregate totals of the top ten class action […]

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged

It all began with The Beatles. Not long before they broke up for good, the Fab Four founded Apple Records and its parent company, […]

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Securities Lawsuit Targeting Stanley Black & Decker Cites “Macro Factors”

A securities lawsuit targeting Stanley Black & Decker, a U.S.-based tool manufacturer said to be worth more than $11 billion, is an interesting example […]

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GAO Report On Litigation Funding Doesn’t Bite

A GAO report on third party litigation funding that was requested by three Republican legislators, “presumably attributable to their interest in regulating the space,” […]

California Privacy Suit Against Clearview Will Proceed

A California Superior Court ruling by Judge Evelio Grillo paves the way for the biometric data privacy complaint against Clearview AI to proceed. Judge […]

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Where Should Trump File His Libel Suit?

Donald Trump is threatening to sue CNN and other media outlets for libel, based on their reporting about the 2020 presidential election.  A prominent […]

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Trade Secret Case Over A Defanged Psychedelic

A therapy that’s said to take the hallucinations out of a psilocybin high but leave beneficial antidepressant effect intact is the subject of a […]

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In High-Stakes Biometric Coverage Battle, Players Await A Key Decision

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) has spawned numerous lawsuits since it went into effect in 2008, and some big settlements. Depending on […]

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Lawyers, Journalists Sue CIA & Pompeo, Claim Their Phones Were Stripped

The CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo are being sued by journalists and attorneys who claim data was exfiltrated from their phones when […]

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Daubert Lives

In a documentary that was three years in the making, Radiolab tells the back story of the 1993 Supreme Court decision that gave us […]