Walmart
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Recent News About Walmart
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SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge in Texas dismissed Walmart’s lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that the Justice Department’s interpretation of federal drug laws is incorrect, saying he lacked jurisdiction because the government failed to waive its sovereign immunity from suit.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A lawsuit alleging Walmart failed to offer its cashiers somewhere to sit will be on hold for a little while.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Justice Department filed a long-anticipated lawsuit against Walmart, accusing the retailer of filling “hundreds of thousands” of suspicious opioid prescriptions that it should have blocked or reported to federal authorities.
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TEXARKANA, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A Walmart customer failed to show why the retailer should be held liable for a slip-and-fall in one of its Texas stores, an appeals court at Texarkana recently ruled in an affirmation of a trial court’s decision.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The plaintiff lawyers leading federal multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry have shelved their request to pull a lawsuit Walmart filed against the government in Texas into the MDL, saying the Justice Department was likely to win its motion to dismiss the case.
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SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers tried, and failed, to drag Walmart’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice into the court overseeing federal multidistrict opioid litigation in an effort to head off a court ruling that could undermine their claims pharmacists helped cause a nationwide epidemic of narcotic use.
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SHERMAN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Walmart is betting on an 86-year-old law that companies most commonly use to fend off lawsuits over insurance coverage or trademarks to block an expected government suit over how its pharmacists filled opioid prescriptions.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Walmart faces a class action lawsuit over whether the “lifetime” tire balance and rotation service was misleading, given that the company closed all of its auto care centers.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Cashiers unhappy they have nowhere to sit at Walmart were wrong to file a lawsuit, the company says, because the issue is being litigated elsewhere.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Lewsline) – The judge overseeing what plaintiffs lawyers call a “pile” of opioid lawsuits should determine if a recent one filed by two Arkansas counties will be sent back to a state court, Walmart is arguing.
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CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has temporarily halted a federal judge’s order requiring the largest U.S. pharmacy chains to turn over more than a decade’s worth of nationwide prescription records, although the court refused to halt production of prescriptions for the state of Ohio.
