News from April 2022
Done with FTC, Fashion Nova faces class action lawyers over online reviews
DETROIT (Legal Newsline) - A clothing retailer for years suppressed lousy reviews, a class action lawsuit alleges.
Judge won't toss case over denial of transgender son's reassignment surgery
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – An employer will have to fight a lawsuit brought by a woman who says it should have provided health insurance for her son’s gender dysphoria.
Failed Pelosi foe loses defamation case against S.F. Chronicle
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Hearst Communications has fended off a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Congressional hopeful who sued over a 2020 article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Court says UCF's woke policies likely violate First Amendment
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – A free speech group gained some success in its challenge of a University of Central Florida policy alleged to be way too woke.
Drew Burach Honored as a Man of the Year by the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs Middle Atlantic Region
Drew Burach Honored as a Man of the Year by the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs Middle Atlantic Region.
Former Teva employee says company partly responsible for opioid epidemic
During a trial in West Virginia accusing opioid drug suppliers of causing an epidemic, a former employee of Teva, one of the defendants and the largest generic manufacture of opioids in the country, admitted the company could be held responsible.
Former Riverside prosecutor can question district attorney in lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court ruled that a former prosecutor now suing Riverside County for wrongful termination can question the current district attorney over whether the county tried to pressure the DA into lying about whether his predecessor was unethical.
Asbestos plaintiff who named 800 John Does gets to add brake company
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A woman who waited to name an air-brake manufacturer in an asbestos lawsuit until after her husband’s death got a second chance to sue the company after a California appeals court ruled her case was improperly dismissed for failure to name the defendant in time.
Distribution of $50K from car wreck case in question
LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - A Nevada personal injury law firm is going to court to make sure the proper parties get paid from its client's settlement.
Lawsuit: Facebook Live violates privacy laws
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Facebook's parent company has transferred to federal court a lawsuit that accuses it of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act.
New York's high court tosses once-huge talc verdict, citing lack of evidence
ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York’s highest court threw out a $16.5 million jury verdict against a talc manufacturer, saying plaintiff experts failed to prove a woman’s cancer death was due to inhaling asbestos fibers in the talcum powder she claimed to have used daily for more than 20 years.
Ogletree Deakins’ 2022 Workplace Benchmarking Report Highlights Hiring and Retention Challenges For Employers
Ogletree Deakins’ 2022 Workplace Benchmarking Report Highlights Hiring and Retention Challenges For Employers.
Defense attorneys challenge witness who showed increase in W.Va. opioid prescriptions
CHARLESTON – Attorneys defending drug suppliers accused of creating an opioid epidemic in West Virginia sought to poke holes in the earlier testimony of an analyst called as an expert witness by the state whose numbers showed a dramatic increase in opioid prescriptions from the years 2007 to 2017.
Free samples table could be liable for injuries all across Costco
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A company that set up a table offering free samples inside a Costco warehouse store is potentially liable for customer slip-and-falls anywhere inside the building, a California appeals court ruled, overruling a trial court that found the vendor’s contract limited liability to within a 12-foot radius of the table.
Nestle says judge ignored all it has done to combat child, slave labor
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – Nestle wants a federal judge to reconsider his ruling that allows a class action lawsuit over child and slave labor in the West African cocoa supply chain to continue.
Watchdog says pro-Trump political committee violated election laws
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A campaign finance watchdog is going after 45Committee, a group that spent tens of millions of dollars supporting Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election.
Conflict with client leaves personal injury firm asking court for help
BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) - A personal injury law firm is off to court against one of its own clients it says refuses to get moving on a $50,000 car wreck settlement.
Flint water judge rejects Napoli Shkolnik's call to DQ rival lawyer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The federal judge in charge of litigation over the Flint water scandal refused law firm Napoli Shkolnik’s request to disqualify a rival lawyer for simultaneously representing clients who approved of a $600 million settlement and those who wanted it to fail, saying the lawyer probably violated ethics rules but it wasn’t worth removing him from the case.
Alison Lecker Named To Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty List
Alison Lecker Named To Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty List.
Alycen Moss promoted to co-vice chair of Cozen O’Connor Global Insurance Department
(ATLANTA, April 22, 2022) … Atlanta attorney Alycen Moss, Co-Chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Property Insurance Group, has also been appointed to Co-Vice Chair of the firm’s Global Insurance Department.