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Whirlpool notes positive online reviews as it fights class action over refrigerators
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Whirlpool says the overwhelming majority of customers are happy with their refrigerators as it fights a class action lawsuit claiming the wires in them won't bend and instead crack. -
Shareholder sues Chemours over stock drop
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A shareholder who lost money on a stock drop is suing Chemours. -
Interest adds to woes for lawyers who took money from litigation funder
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. -
Government's opioid blame-game with Walmart takes huge hit
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Walmart recently scored a big win in a lawsuit brought by the federal government that attempts to blame the retail giant for the nation's addiction crisis. -
Litigation funder to take $1.8 million from lawyers it gave money to
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A seven-figure judgment has officially been entered against lawyers who tried to do business with a litigation funder but ended up having their house in jeopardy. -
Wires crack instead of bend, class action over refrigerators complains
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Whirlpool faces a class action lawsuit that complains wiring in its refrigerators won't bend and instead cracks and snaps when doors are opened and closed. -
Biden lawyer counter sues computer shop owner: Hunter data has no 'legitimate concern to public'
WILMINGTON, Delaware – Data on Hunter Biden’s laptop “is of no recognized legitimate concern to the public,” his lawyer claims in a privacy invasion complaint against computer repairman Mac Isaac. -
Suit alleges Michaels illegally over charging tax on Missouri residents' remote purchases
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) — A woman alleges that Michaels is illegally collecting more tax from Missouri residents on remotely purchased items than allowed by state law. -
Lawyers try to plead their way out of $1.8M hole with litigation funder
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers in a dispute with their litigation funder are urging a federal judge not to listen to a magistrate judge who feels they must pay $1.8 million. -
Litigation funder prevails in $1.8M dispute with lawyers
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who found their house in jeopardy after tussling with a litigation funder should have to pay the $1.8 million they are said to owe, a federal magistrate judge says. -
Walmart seeks end to 'smorgasbord' securities suit over opioid disclosures
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Walmart has again asked a federal judge in Delaware to dismiss a securities class action claiming it misled investors about opioid litigation, saying an amended complaint is even worse than the original. -
Lawyers end up fighting for their house while tangling with third-party litigation funder
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who decided to bring in a financial backer to help pay for litigation (on a 26% interest rate) were left defending their home during a series of disagreements with their client, the funder and an arbitration panel. -
Delaware starting to shine a light on who is funding litigation in the state
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The Delaware Senate has passed a resolution that would require the state’s court system to study whether to require lawyers to disclose outside funding sources, two months after federal courts in Delaware mandated disclosure of third-party litigation funders. -
Delaware's climate change case on hold during appeal
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A Delaware federal judge has stayed important climate change litigation in that state while federal appeals courts around the country try to figure out where these cases should be heard. -
Oil companies lose key decision in Delaware, plan appeal to Third Circuit
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Rejecting arguments that Delaware was trying to use its own courts to interfere with federal energy policy, a federal judge ordered a climate lawsuit spearheaded by private lawyers back to state court where it could stand higher chances of success. -
Walmart says it told shareholders about opioid probe in 2018 but they sued anyway
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Walmart has asked a federal court in Delaware to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit accusing it of failing to disclose a federal investigation over its opioid dispensing practices, saying it informed investors about the probe two years before news of it supposedly caused its stock to fall. -
Fox News treated Michael Avenatti fairly, judge says while tossing defamation suit
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Lawyer Michael Avenatti’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News has been thrown out by a federal judge who said Avenatti could not overcome the accuracy of the channel’s reporting. -
Millions headed to lawyers who sued Monsanto for not putting cancer warning on Roundup
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Lawyers are asking for up to $11 million from a proposed class action settlement in their case that doesn’t allege anyone has been hurt by Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, but that the company should have put a could-cause-cancer warning on it. -
Judge denies Avenatti's attempt to add defendant and remand defamation case to Delaware state court
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Michael Avenatti will not have the opportunity to add a defendant to his defamation lawsuit against Fox News or remand the case to Delaware Superior Court, per a federal appellate judge. -
Fox News fights Avenatti's defamation case, points out he was actually arrested
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Fox News and several of its personalities want a Delaware federal judge to throw out the defamation lawsuit of Michael Avenatti.