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Comcast faces lawsuit after data breach
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Comcast customers claim their personally identifiable information wasn't protected from a December data breach -
Amerisource Bergen attacks 'profoundly flawed' DOJ opioid lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Amerisource Bergen asked a federal judge to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit accusing it of filling hundreds of thousands of suspicious opioid orders, saying the government is seeking billions of dollars in fines for violating “hopelessly vague” rules it refuses to identify with any specificity. -
More clients sue Hagens Berman over failed birth defect lawsuits
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - Prominent plaintiff law firm Hagens Berman has been sued by more of its clients who claim they were shoved aside by their lawyers after serious ethical concerns emerged in how the firm handled lawsuits over the banned drug thalidomide. -
Lawyer fights lender who advanced cash against NFL concussion fees
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer who represented hundreds of players in a $1 billion concussion settlement with the National Football League is fighting an arbitrator’s order to repay some $2.3 million in high-interest loans from a litigation funder. -
Nestle to settle lawsuit claiming its Purina plant stunk up the neighborhood
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – Nestle has agreed to pay $800,000 to residents around its Allentown, Pa., facility who claim its manufacture of Purina pet foods there has left an odor in the air. -
Bayer pays $1.6 billion to settle U.S. injury claims against Essure birth control device
PHILADELPHIA – Bayer Pharmaceuticals announced Thursday that it agreed to pay $1.6 billion to settle almost all litigation in the United States based upon claims that its Essure birth control tool injured women who used it. -
Third Circuit to decide whether private lawyers can chase California-style jackpot in the name of government
PHILADELPHIA – Oral arguments in the extended standoff between the Sherwin-Williams Company and a Pennsylvania county hoping to use private lawyers to sue it over lead paint will take place today before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. -
'Pillaging them, that's the point': Serial plaintiff on tape describing how to take advantage of TCPA
PHILADELPHIA – Recorded conversations prove a Pennsylvania man who has filed dozens of lawsuits is intentionally taking advantage of a federal law to extort settlements from defendants, says one of the companies he has targeted. -
Third Circuit sends Pennsylvania lead paint litigation to state courts in win for private lawyers hired by counties
PHILADELPHIA – According to a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, public nuisance cases filed by two Pennsylvania counties against manufacturers who provided lead-containing paint for use in housing developments were properly remanded to state court for a lack of jurisdiction. -
Judge: PFAS chemicals aren't 'hazardous' under Pennsylvania law
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Navy has won a key victory in Pennsylvania as a judge recently dismissed a lawsuit over the ubiquitous chemicals known as PFAS after finding they weren’t defined as “hazardous” under the state’s toxic waste statute. -
Phoney Lawsuits: Prolific TCPA filer faces RICO claims over alleged lawsuit-generating scheme
PHILADELPHIA – “If you are reading this website, you are most likely a telemarketer that has illegally called my phone. You are going to be sued. I played along with your telemarketer script in order to find out who you really are.” -
Sherwin-Williams still fighting to prevent Pa. counties from filing lead paint lawsuits
PHILADELPHIA – After a dismissal at the district court level, Sherwin-Williams is taking its argument against an alliance of government officials and private lawyers who are considering suing the company over lead paint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. -
Former employees suing disgraced AG Kane lose effort to obtain her attorney communications
PHILADELPHIA – Former Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General employees caught up in the scandal around disgraced former Attorney General Kathleen Kane won't be getting her attorney communications, a federal judge recently ruled. -
Suzanne Somers takes QVC to court over business deal gone wrong
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) — Actress Suzanne Somers and SLC Sweet have filed suit against QVC alleging it lured her into a deal as an attempt to remove her from the dietary supplement business and market its own supplement brands. -
Money piles up for serial TCPA lawsuit-filer from King of Prussia; This week's trial looks like a win
PHILADELPHIA – The Telephone Consumer Protection Act: Enacted in 1991, its purpose is to protect the public from unwanted telemarketing calls. However, for some professional plaintiffs, it has also proven to be a source of serial litigation generating settlement payoffs. -
Sherwin-Williams says private lawyers hired by Pa. counties want money, not justice
PHILADELPHIA – Sherwin-Williams says a public nuisance lawsuit over lead paint by Delaware County has been tainted by the county’s attorneys having a financial stake in its outcome, and should be dismissed for violating its due process rights. -
Court finds SciMedica Group, Cephalon did have permission to send faxes
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the defendants in a case over a fax sent to a doctor did in fact have permission to send it and granted their motions for summary judgment. -
Labor Department alleges Pennsylvania restaurant failed to pay full minimum wage, overtime
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Department of Labor is suing a Pennsylvania restaurant in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for allegedly failing to pay servers a full federal minimum wage as well as overtime pay. -
Blind man suing Philly restaurant 100 miles from his house loses case over its website
On Sept.17, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania determined a blind man didn’t provide enough evidence that Sam’s Oyster House discriminated against him through its website. -
AbbVie files appeal contesting landmark $448 million antitrust win for Federal Trade Commission
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) — Defendants AbbVie Inc., Abbott Laboratories and Unimed Pharmaceuticals LLC filed an appeal on Aug. 6 in a U.S. District Court in response to the final judgment in an antitrust case that found in favor of the Federal Trade Commission.