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Friday, March 29, 2024

News from March 2022


DoorDash, GrubHub get shot to prove San Francisco ordinance is unconstitutional

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – DoorDash and other food-delivery services will get to continue making their case against a San Francisco ordinance that caps what they can charge restaurants.

Bloomberg wins lawsuit brought by fired workers for his Presidential run

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Former New York City mayor and 2020 Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has won a lawsuit brought by staffers on his campaign that he let go.

Lawsuit filed over recall of breast implants

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A New York woman didn't contract breast implant-associated cancer but is still suing their maker because she had to take them out for fear that she would.

Private lawyers take $84 million from Florida opioid settlements; Some are campaign contributors to AG Moody

By Daniel Fisher |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced $860 million in opioid settlements with CVS and three other companies, leaving only Walgreens as a defendant in a trial scheduled to begin in state court April 4.

Baton Appointed to Board of Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey

By Press release submission |
Baton Appointed to Board of Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey.

Court dispute over possible van Gogh find booted out of the country

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – A New York art collector will have to go overseas to sue the Netherlands-based Van Gogh Museum over its refusal to authenticate what he says is a long-lost work by the painter.

Calif. school district must pay $2 million over classroom shooting

By Daniel Fisher |
FRESNO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California school district must pay $2 million over a classroom shooting because employees failed to properly assess the threat posed by an angry student, an appeals court ruled, rejecting arguments state law grants immunity from negligence suits over mental examinations.

Lawsuit: Kindergarten student expelled after complaining of abuse by teacher

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A New York City school faces a lawsuit that complains a kindergarten student was expelled after her parents complained she was physically abused.

Worker says he fell through floor at Boston's Winthrop Center

By John O'Brien |
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A Massachusetts construction worker is suing after plummeting through the floor of the Winthrop Center in Boston.

Class action complains "fat bombs" aren't diet food

By John O'Brien |
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - SlimFast is cheating consumers watching their weight with their chocolate snack cups called Keto Fat Bombs, a lawsuit alleges.

Addiction crisis: Florida AG tries to blame Mexico and China in public but not in court

By Daniel Fisher |
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody lost her bid to prevent opioid defendants from telling jurors about illegal fentanyl flooding the state from conspirators in Mexico and China - a theory the Republican AG herself has loudly promoted in calls for tighter border security.

Four Healthcare Partners Join Sheppard Mullin In New York

By Press release submission |
Four Healthcare Partners Join Sheppard Mullin In New York.

Asbestos lawyers seeking to avoid settlement disclosure lodge personal attack against Koch Brothers

By Steve Korris |
CHARLOTTE (Legal Newsline) – Asbestos lawyers who have failed to stop an examination of their settlement history plead that it must stop because the Koch brothers – Charles and David – started it.

Defense rests, two-week break before closing arguments in opioid distributors’ trial in Washington State

By John Sammon |
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - The last witness appeared on Monday in a trial that has gone on for more than four months accusing three of the country’s largest distributors of opioid pills of causing an overdose epidemic in Washington State.

Should pharmacies have to pay billions to two Ohio counties for opioid issues?

By Daniel Fisher |
CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Walmart, Walgreens and CVS told a judge they should pay only a small fraction of the $2 billion or more that two Ohio counties are seeking for an “abatement” plan to address opioid abuse, saying they supplied less than 3% of the suspicious prescriptions plaintiff lawyers blame for the wider opioid crisis.

Lawyers may collect $60K in fees and costs over car-loan dispute

By Daniel Fisher |
FRESNO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who represented a couple who sought to reverse the purchase of a used car that turned out to be a lemon may collect nearly $60,000 in fees and costs from the lender, a California appeals court ruled.

Defendant can seek legal fees in Jones Act spat over where ship was built

By Daniel Fisher |
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A dredging company turned the tables on a competitor that sued it for violating federal law, winning a ruling by a California appeals court that it can seek attorneys fees under the state’s anti-SLAPP law prohibiting retaliation against protected speech.

Lawsuit says Oral-B charcoal products are useless for teeth-whitening

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Procter & Gamble is selling a charcoal line of oral care products that are no more effective than regular toothbrushes, a lawsuit says.

Topp's faces class action lawsuit over redemption cards

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A new class action lawsuit says card collectors are being scammed by the "unlawful lottery" that is the "redemption card" promotion.

Reed Smith expands music transactional capabilities with the addition of counsel Robyn Sandak in New York

By Press release submission |
Reed Smith expands music transactional capabilities with the addition of counsel Robyn Sandak in New York.