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Lawyers want $840 million for work on 3M PFAS settlement
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - Some of the nation's most prominent plaintiffs law firms are asking for $840 million in attorneys fees from a massive settlement with 3M over chemicals known as PFAS.
Lawsuit: A prolific class action lawyer is more into extortion than litigation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Ashley Furniture claims a prolific class action lawyer is actually an extortion artist and is suing him for more than $100,000.
Climate change plaintiff drops case after being told to continue in federal court
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Rather than continue in a federal court, a fishermen's group suing Big Oil over climate change would prefer to drop the matter entirely.
Arby's defends size of its sandwiches in ads as not misleading to reasonable people
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - Arby's is hoping to cut off the lawsuit over the size of its sandwiches before it gets going.
MDL created for dozens of phenylephrine class actions
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - The flurry of lawsuits that followed an FDA advisory declaring phenylephrine ineffective for treating congestion have been grouped together for a multidistrict litigation proceeding.
Two years later, defendant in sexual assault lawsuit finds out who the plaintiff is
TAMPA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - It took two years for a Florida Islamic society to find out who is suing it for sexual assault.
Judge OKs class action settlement with Grande Cosmetics
CAMDEN, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a class action settlement with Grande Cosmetics over its eyelash-enhancing products.
Fla. Lottery fights lawsuit of man who thought he'd won $15 million
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - The Florida Lottery wants a state judge to dismiss a claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress from a lawsuit alleging a man was led to believe he'd won $15 million.
Disney calls out lawsuit over lightsaber injury
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Sued over damage to a child's eye, Disney says the injury was the result of "horseplay gone wrong" and not its fault.
Kroger attacks gouda class action and the lawyer who brought it
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) - "Copycat" and "frivolous" are some of the terms used by Kroger as it asks a federal judge to throw out a class action lawsuit over smoked gouda.
Walmart defends its honey as it fights class action
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - There are eight reasons to toss this class action lawsuit, Walmart is arguing in response to allegations its organic and raw honey is neither.
Indiana county says it had nothing to do with police fatally shooting man
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana county wants out of a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges deputy sheriffs were wrong to shoot Joshua Ebinger, even though they were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Woman uses Ricola cough drops for 20 years, sues after lawyer posts Facebook ad for plaintiffs
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) - The woman who brought a class action over Ricola cough drops was happy with the product for 20 years until she met a lawyer through an ad on Facebook.
Cava Grill misses chance to attack claims in PFAS lawsuit
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - The Mediterranean food restaurant chain Cava Grill waited too long to try to dismiss certain claims against it in a class action lawsuit over the alleged presence of chemicals in its bowls.
Defendant: Despite doomsday warnings, lawsuit over ChatGPT makes no specific claims
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs who warned of the end of humanity failed to make their case that their personal information was stolen to teach the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT.
Class of investors established for litigation against Olo over broken Subway deal
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - After denying two motions to dismiss, a New York federal judge has created a class of shareholders claiming they were harmed by wrongdoing at a company that designs online ordering systems.
Cops in wrongful death lawsuit say suspect yelled 'Just f---ing shoot me!'
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - California's Placer County and some of its deputy shefiffs have moved to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit over the shooting of a man they say screamed "Just f---ing shoot me!" before advancing on them with a knife.
Trump can't convince federal judge to reopen $475M defamation case against CNN
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Former President Donald Trump failed to raise any new issues that would reopen his defamation case against CNN, which he says compared him to Adolf Hitler while he fought the results of his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
Indiana AG rebuts free speech worries with law requiring buffer between onlookers and cops
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Reporters shouldn't concern themselves with a new law that prevents anyone from approaching police conducting their duties, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita says.
Judge to weigh whether Labor Dept.'s investigation goes too far, as company already buckling underneath it
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday will hear arguments that the Department of Labor is ruining a Michigan-based company's business, in pursuit of a child labor investigation that has yielded no charges so far.