News from March 2022
Maryland Judiciary adopts post-pandemic judicial operation recommendations
The Maryland Judiciary has accepted a series of recommendations from the Joint Subcommittee on Post COVID-19 Judicial Operations.
DoorDash, GrubHub get shot to prove San Francisco ordinance is unconstitutional
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A Massachusetts construction worker is suing after plummeting through the floor of the Winthrop Center in Boston.
Addiction crisis: Florida AG tries to blame Mexico and China in public but not in court
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.
Class action complains "fat bombs" aren't diet food
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - SlimFast is cheating consumers watching their weight with their chocolate snack cups called Keto Fat Bombs, a lawsuit alleges.
Four Healthcare Partners Join Sheppard Mullin In New York
Four Healthcare Partners Join Sheppard Mullin In New York.
Asbestos lawyers seeking to avoid settlement disclosure lodge personal attack against Koch Brothers
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
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?
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.
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Lawyers may collect $60K in fees and costs over car-loan dispute
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
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
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
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.