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Recent News About U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. SC ruling a narrow victory for employee class in Tyson Foods case
The court majority rejected the company’s argument that class certification was improper, but left the issue of whether the $2.9 million verdict can stand to be resolved by the lower courts. -
Texas AG claims federal government mishandled state boundary survey
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that a district court has allowed Texas to intervene in a case that would establish what Texas believes is its rightful boundary for land near the Red River. -
Fla. AG Bondi to seek U.S. SC review of 'no surcharge' challenge
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi will appeal a loss in four companies' constitutional challenge to the state's "no surcharge" laws, which bar surcharges on credit card purchases, to the U.S. Supreme Court, a spokesperson said. -
Attorneys try to predict U.S. SC decision on standing in class actions following Scalia’s death
Many legal observers expect the nation’s highest court to issue a 4-4 ruling in the Spokeo v. Robins case. Plaintiffs attorneys say such a ruling likely would preserve the status quo; others argue doing so would allow such no-harm lawsuits to continue, benefiting only class counsel. -
U.S. SC set to consider public interest firm’s petition for review of Duracell settlement
The Center for Class Action Fairness, now a subunit of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, filed its petition for a writ of certiorari with the court in December. It argues plaintiffs lawyers received the largest share of the settlement’s benefits and used cy pres awards to help exaggerate the class relief and thus inflate their fees. -
U.S. SC declines to wade into dispute over heightened standard in federal class actions
The nation’s high court recently denied Direct Digital’s petition for a writ of certiorari in a class action lawsuit filed against the company over its joint pain relief product. -
After nine years, Janssen settles South Carolina's Risperdal case for $124M
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Legal Newsline) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced last month that he and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals have finally reached a settlement in the state's Risperdal case, ending a nine-year legal battle. -
U.S. SC to hear arguments in case over evaluating patent challenges
The nation’s highest court must decide, after hearing oral arguments in Cuozzo v. Lee next month, whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should handle claims in patent cases arising from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or PTAB, the same as claims in cases arising from district courts. -
U.S. SC ruling in favor of Tyson Foods could narrow class action certification
The company argues that a federal appeals court’s ruling, upholding $2.8 million in money damages awarded to a class of current and formerly hourly workers at an Iowa plant, sanctioned the use of “seriously flawed” procedures many district courts have used to permit certification and adjudication of class actions. -
Minn. court rules grocery store customers suffered no harm in data breach case
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A Minnesota federal court recently dismissed a class action lawsuit alleging grocery store customers were harmed when hackers stole personal data, but the jury may still be out on how courts will handle similar data breach cases in the future. -
Washington state urges Supreme Court not to review emergency contraceptive case
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has asked the United States Supreme Court to decline a review of a state case involving pharmacies stocking timely medication that includes emergency contraceptives. -
Dow settles billion-dollar class action in light of changing U.S. SC
The chemical company reached an agreement in a class action lawsuit filed against it over polyurethane pricing just weeks after Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of natural causes at a luxury hunting resort in Texas. -
Supreme Court will not review allegations Apple inflated e-book prices
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Apple’s request to review a lower court decision in a case charging the company with allegations of inflating e-book prices, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced. -
Va. attorney general comments on Supreme Court's rejection of Chesapeake Bay cleanup case
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) — Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s office announced that the U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear an appeal of the American Farm Bureau vs. EPA case, which sought to end work to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. -
U.S. SC’s decision in Gomez leaves class action questions on the table
In January, the nation’s highest court ruled that an unaccepted offer of complete relief to a named plaintiff in a putative class action lawsuit does not moot the plaintiff’s claim. But it would not decide whether the result would be different if a defendant deposits the full amount of the plaintiff’s individual claim in an account payable to the plaintiff, and the court then enters judgment for the plaintiff in that amount. -
Plaintiffs law firm seeks U.S. SC review of malpractice class action filed against it
According to the Supreme Court docket, the case is set for conference March 18. Attorneys for Milberg LLP argue the continued prosecution of the matter as a class action is time barred and the claims of the putative class members have expired. -
AAJ panned companies' method of fighting class actions as unfair, though member accused it of using the same strategy
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Weeks before the head of a national trial lawyers group condemned a legal maneuver used by businesses in attempts to fight class action lawsuits, the group was accused of using the same move – by one of its own members. -
W.Va. AG, 30-state coalition file reply with U.S. SC over Clean Power Plan stay request
The states contend that if left unstayed, the EPA’s new rule will force “massive and irreversible changes” in terms of state policies and resources, power plant shutdowns, and investments in wind and solar power. -
Attorney: U.S. SC takes away class action defense 'we couldn't really use anyway'
Defendants can’t moot class action lawsuits by offering to pay the named plaintiff’s claim in full, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January. -
Arkansas AG releases comments about EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge presented comments to the Environmental Protection Agency about its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) supplemental findings on cost.