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Friday, March 29, 2024

John O'Brien News


PTSD from walking through dead man's brain matter not a basis to sue, court finds

By John O'Brien |
MONTPELIER, Vt. (Legal Newsline) - Walking through brain matter at the scene of a gruesome accident isn't enough to sue over, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.

Inaction by Ga. House will help car-crash plaintiffs who weren't wearing their seatbelts still hit jackpots

By John O'Brien |
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - When a Georgia woman's airbag didn't deploy during a 2020 crash, she hit her head on the windshield and sued Ford, which figured it had the ultimate defense: She wasn't even wearing her seatbelt.

Lawyer asked for $300K in fees for small win but got nothing, now will get what's 'reasonable'

By John O'Brien |
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A labor lawyer whose dream of $300,000 in fees for helping a client win $7,600 was shattered by a Los Angeles judge is heading back to court to argue what a reasonable amount would be.

COVID wrongful death lawsuit against nursing home brought to soon, judge rules

By John O'Brien |
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A lawsuit blaming a New York nursing home for the COVID-related death of a resident in the outset of the pandemic has so-far failed for procedural reasons.

Ghost gun ruling in New York AG's lawsuit appealed

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - "Ghost gun" sellers who lost a key ruling in New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against them are appealing.

Appeal filed after lawyers lose class action against Catalina Crunch

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Class action lawyers won't give up after a federal judge through out their claims Catalina Crunch cereals mislead consumers into thinking their flavors contain those actual ingredients.

Frontier fees case should lose most of its claims, magistrate judge suggests

By John O'Brien |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Plenty should be dismissed from a class action lawsuit against Frontier Airlines over its fees for bags, a federal magistrate judge has ruled, though one count could go forward.

Class action fails, as no 'reasonable' consumer would expect lemon and honey in flavored Alka-Seltzer Plus

By John O'Brien |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge will throw out a class action lawsuit that claimed people who bought flavored Alka-Seltzer Plus cold medicine were tricked by pictures of lemon and honey on the package.

Oasis Legal Finance gets class action against it booted from N.J. court

By John O'Brien |
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who challenged her agreement with Oasis Legal Finance as illegal has been told she filed her lawsuit in the wrong court.

CFPB defeats challenges, free to take on student loan trusts

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - A federal appeals court will not stand in the way of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as it targets student loan trusts.

'A mess': Expert in Fla. toxic tort plagiarizes cancer research of others, tries to submit it to court

By John O'Brien |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - More plaintiffs have been booted from a Florida toxic tort lawsuit because the expert hired by lawyers to connect their cancers to substances released at a Lockheed Martin plant plagiarized the work of a research group.

Interest adds to woes for lawyers who took money from litigation funder

By John O'Brien |
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Fighting an arbitration award for a litigation funder didn't pay off for married lawyers who borrowed for it, and they have to pay more than $1 million in interest for doing so.

$25 million for lawyers who pushed PACER class action

By John O'Brien |
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who took on the federal government's system for charging fees for court documents will take close to $25 million for their efforts.

Lawyer fight breaks out in PFAS case with huge settlement on the line

By John O'Brien |
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - The lawyers who negotiated a $1 billion-plus settlement with DuPont and stand to take $95 million in fees want a federal judge to punish lawyers trying to stand in the way.

Lawyer who sued over exclusion from L.A. trial attorney group loses lawsuit

By John O'Brien |
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge not only threw out the lawsuit of a lawyer kicked out of a Los Angeles trial attorney group but has ordered him to pay the other side's attorneys fees.

Class action over mini-Southern Comfort might be certified

By John O'Brien |
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - Having defeated some of a motion to dismiss, lawyers are now asking for class action status in a case alleging malt miniature bottles of Southern Comfort trick customers into thinking they are buying whiskey.

Pellet maker attacks class action, questions attorneys' use of the word 'exact'

By John O'Brien |
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A maker of air gun pellets is asking a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action complaint that alleges the measurements on their ammunition is off.

Kentucky circuit clerk removed from office after complaints of sexual harassment, hostility

By John O'Brien |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - The Kentucky Supreme Court has found it appropriate to remove one of the state's circuit court clerks from office after investigating claims of sexual harassment and hostile work environment brought by two women in the office.

Schwan's beats another class action over Mrs. Smith's pie crust

By John O'Brien |
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has refused the claims of a class action lawyer called a "wrecking ball" by a colleague that alleged Schwan's didn't use enough "real butter" in its pie crust.

EPA sidesteps challenge to favorable scientists reviewing its formaldehyde study

By John O'Brien |
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has rejected calls to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from having its work reviewed by a favorable, supposedly independent panel to boost its effort to regulate formaldehyde.