News from November 2020
Players file lawsuit over difficulty of Madden, FIFA and NHL games
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Our video games are toying with us, players are complaining in a class action lawsuit against Electronic Arts.
Wipes aren't flushable, lawsuit against CVS says
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Flushable wipes sold at CVS are clogging toilets, a class action lawsuit says.
Bernstein Litowitz and Saxena White get nod to lead FirstEnergy litigation; Berger Montague left out
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) – Lawyers representing a St. Louis union will get their wish to lead litigation against FirstEnergy over an alleged $60 million bribe to a prominent Ohio legislator.
Judge: New Jersey court not proper venue for challenge to California law
NEWARK, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – Rather than dismiss a lawsuit alleging California is imposing certain business standards on the rest of the country, a New Jersey federal judge is sending that challenge to California.
Spit-fight lawsuit against Lowe's heads back to state court
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – It’s possible a Lowe’s employee can be found liable for one customer spitting on another, a federal judge has ruled.
Judge won't end ban on evictions in Los Angeles, asks for legislative response
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Landlords who are trying to overturn Los Angeles’ moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have not shown they are likely to succeed, a federal judge has ruled.
Exxon says Conn. AG using courts to police oil and gas industry
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – Exxon wants a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong that alleges the company misled the public about climate change.
Trump loses libel case against CNN, needs to show 'actual malice' from the network
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – President Donald Trump’s campaign is going to have to make a stronger argument if it wants to sustain its libel lawsuit against CNN.
BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP: BCLP Adds New Global Data Privacy & Cyber Security Lead
International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) announced that Amy de La Lama has joined as a partner to lead the firm’s global Data Privacy & Cyber Security Team, within the Corporate & Finance Transactions Department.
BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP: Berger Highly Ranked in ‘Westchester Power 100’ List
New York Counsel Suzanne Berger has been named to the Westchester Power 100 list, by City & State New York.
POLSINELLI PC: Polsinelli Attorney Elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli is pleased to announce Tony W. Torain, II, a shareholder in the firm’s Washington D.C. office, has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP: Evolving Convertible Bond Strategies for Corporates
As we enter the last quarter of this extraordinary year, companies will have to consider how and if they want to expand into a market bristling with opportunity (though not without risks).
HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP: Husch Blackwell Completes Build Out, Moves Into New Downtown Milwaukee Office Space
Husch Blackwell announced the completion of construction on its new, state-of-the-art office space in J. Jeffers & Co.’s newly opened Huron Building, located at 511 N. Broadway in downtown Milwaukee.
Top opioid plaintiff lawyers plead for Walmart case to join action in Ohio
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The lawyers in charge of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors pleaded for a Walmart case against the government to be pulled into the court coordinating federal multidistrict litigation, saying the legal questions it raises have already been answered by judge overseeing the MDL.
Congressman asks Cuomo to change N.Y. construction liability law
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Defendants in New York courts have a new tool to fight certain types of lawsuit, while construction companies are again hoping legal reform comes to them.
N.Y. firm draws judge's ire for using debt collection lawsuits as 'a sword'
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers have been warned by a federal judge that more frivolous litigation will result in sanctions.
Bayer's Roundup fight: Success in France but paying billions to settle U.S. cases
In a graphic demonstration of the difference between the U.S. legal system and those of other countries, an appeals court in France has rejected the only pending lawsuit there claiming Bayer’s Roundup herbicide causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the common cancer that tens of thousands of Americans blame on the product.
Pa. opioid lawsuits plod along as companies demand 'critical information to defend themselves'
MEDIA (Legal Newsline) - Drug distributors facing about 50 opioid lawsuits in Pennsylvania have asked the judge overseeing the litigation to order sanctions against plaintiffs for repeatedly refusing to honor deadlines to turn over evidence including information about how state and local governments have handled the opioid crisis they blame on the drug industry.
Morgan & Morgan saves itself $4.25M in legal malpractice case
LAKELAND, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A major personal injury law firm has successfully reduced a $5 million legal malpractice verdict against it to $750,000.
Financial arrangements between defense firms and experts to be examined by Fla. Supreme Court
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A Florida appeals court has deemed the issue of payment to expert witnesses as one of great public importance.