News from October 2020
Lowe's: Suing employee for customers' spit-fight over face masks is a 'sham'
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A man spit on at Lowe’s by a customer not wearing a face mask wrongfully joined an employee to his lawsuit, the company says.
Judge declines to call Cuomo's coronavirus orders illegal, turns back challenge from bars
BUFFALO, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – Bars, restaurants, bowling alleys and gentlemen’s clubs have lost their challenge to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s social distancing requirements.
Mass. AG doesn't want judge to decide if since-expired regs were unconstitutional
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says the challenge of a debt collectors’ trade group has become moot.
Walmart's new lawsuit a preemptive shot against U.S. over coming opioid litigation
Walmart fired a warning shot at the U.S. government in advance of an expected opioid lawsuit, asking a federal court to declare invalid claims that its pharmacies can be held liable for filling prescriptions written by licensed doctors and failing to follow standards that don’t appear in the law.
Lawyers try to save fight against Apple by jettisoning T-Mobile in iPhone class action
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers have dismissed claims against T-Mobile, the company with which prospective class members signed an arbitration agreement.
LuLaRoe bickers with class action lawyers over testing of leggings
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – The testing of leggings in class action litigation against LuLaRoe should be denied, the company is telling a federal judge.
Pa. Supreme Court disregards SCOTUS ruling, decides jurisdiction applies in pelvic mesh injury case
HARRISBURG – A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the concept of specific jurisdiction in 2017 did not guide the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, when it affirmed a $12.85 million damages award in a pelvic mesh injury matter against a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.
MICKES O'TOOLE LLC: Thomas Mickes Honored With 2020 Friend of Rural Education Award
We are excited to congratulate Thomas A. Mickes on being honored with the MARE/MO K-8 “Friend of Rural Education” Award for 2020.
HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP: Singleton McAllister Headlines Congressional Black Caucus Institute Forum
Husch Blackwell’s Singleton B. McAllister headlined a Congressional Black Caucus Institute (CBCI) virtual forum, “Globally Black: Increasing Diversity in Foreign Affairs Careers” on October 21.
POLSINELLI PC: Polsinelli Expands Life Science Patent Capabilities to Seattle Office with Addition of New Shareholder, Melissa Harwood, Ph.D., and Two Patent Agents
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes new Shareholder, Melissa M. Harwood, Ph.D., to its Biotech/Life Science Patent Prosecution Practice and growing Seattle office.
FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP: NC Lawyers Weekly Names Maureen Demarest Murray Among Leaders in the Law
Fox Rothschild LLP congratulates Maureen Demarest Murray, who was named among the Leaders in the Law by NC Lawyers Weekly.
GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP: Greenberg Traurig’s David I. Miller to Chair Practising Law Institute’s Insider Trading Law Program
David I. Miller, a White Collar Defense & Special Investigations Practice shareholder at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will chair the Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) Insider Trading Law Program, taking place Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Man spit on at Lowe's fights to keep lawsuit alive
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A man spit on at Lowe’s by a customer not wearing a face mask says the fate of his lawsuit should be determined by a California state court judge.
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Tobacco industry sues over new flavor-ban in California
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – Tobacco companies like R.J. Reynolds are suing over California’s new law that bans flavored products.
Discount tobacco companies say Philip Morris, Colo. lawmakers conspired on new bill
DENVER (Legal Newsline) – Tobacco retailers are suing Colorado over a ballot measure that would require cigarettes to be sold at a certain minimum price.
No mistrial over failure to admit evidence of C.R. Bard's corporate conviction
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who sued the manufacturers of her pelvic-mesh implants isn’t entitled to a new trial over the fact she wasn’t allowed to tell jurors about one company’s prior criminal conviction, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Oct. 13.
Decision in TCPA case will give defendants ammo to fight litigation, Pittsburgh lawyer says
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh attorney says that a recent decision in a Louisiana federal court has resurrected the potential for defendants facing litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to claim that the law is unconstitutional in its entirety.
Ear plug MDL judge will decide if 3M can interview lieutenant colonel
SAN ANTONIO (Legal Newsline) – A Florida federal judge handling ear plug litigation will be tasked with deciding if a Department of Defense employee must answer 3M’s questions.
Watchdog asks for $61K for work on State Street class action; Plaintiffs lawyers who lost $6M oppose
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers whose fees were trimmed by more than $6 million after serious allegations of double-billing and other improprieties emerged in the State Street securities class action have urged the court to reject a fee request from the organization that took a lead role in uncovering the scandal.
Time to test the pants in lawsuit against LuLaRoe
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Lawyers suing LuLaRoe over allegedly weak fabric want to test 50 pairs of returned leggings – without the company’s involvement.