News from July 2023
ChatGPT users' lawsuit warns of AI's 'catastrophic risk to humanity'
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) — Microsoft and others are facing a class action from ChatGPT users alleging illegal use of private information for their AI technology.
Class action alleges Frontier Airlines fraudulently adds on baggage fees
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) — A class action alleges Frontier Airlines uses fraudulent tactics to add on baggage fees to passengers' ticket price.
PFAS, the Forever Chemical on July 13, 2023
Blank Rome partner Deborah Greenspan, co-chair of the firm’s Energy, Environment, and Mass Torts practice group, will serve as a panelist at “PFAS, the Forever Chemical: An Interdisciplinary Review of Current Environmental Regulations, Availability of Insurance Coverage, Potential Bankruptcy Issues, and ADR,” being presented by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (“CPR”) on Thursday, July 13, 2023
Busching Law PLC launches new law firm website
Busching Law PLC is pleased to announce the publication of its new, modern website
Troutman Pepper’s Kayla Watkins Selected for National Bar Association’s Associate Advancement Academy for Excellence
Kayla Watkins, an associate in Troutman Pepper’s Real Estate Practice Group, is among a group of attorneys who have been selected to participate in the National Bar Association’s Associate Advancement Academy for Excellence as a fellow for 2023-2024.
Marshall Dennehey Announces New Office Managing Attorneys in Mount Laurel, NJ, and New York, NY
Marshall Dennehey announced that Sharon A. Campbell-Suplee has been named Managing Attorney of the firm’s Mount Laurel, NJ, office, and Steven M. Christman has been named Managing Attorney of the firm’s New York City office.
New Mexico's fee for opioid lawyers: At least $1,500 per addict
SANTA FE, N.M. (Legal Newsline) - New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez quickly touted his state’s settlement of opioid claims against Walmart, CVS, Johnson & Johnson and other companies last year with a press release, but so far he's not talking about this year's $500 million settlement with Walgreens.
Morgan & Morgan files class action over organ-harvesting at Harvard
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - The major plaintiffs firm Morgan & Morgan has stepped into litigation against Harvard Medical School after an organ-harvesting scheme there was revealed.
Pharmacy accused of inflating price of insulin appeals key ruling in Calif. AG's lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Express Scripts is appealing a federal judge's decision to send a lawsuit over allegedly inflated prices on insulin back to a California state court.
Goodwill faces suit over 2022 data breach of employee, applicant personal information
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) — A former Goodwill employee and job applicant have filed a class action lawsuit over the company's 2022 data breach.
Consumers allege HexChad cookware falsely marketed as non-toxic
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline)— Consumers allege HexChad cookware is falsely marketed as non-toxic when it contains a chemicals known to cause health issues.
Indiana man can't sue doctors for letting him kill his grandfather
INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - An Indiana man who pled guilty to killing his grandfather can’t sue his doctors for letting him do it, the state’s highest court said, ruling for the first time on whether a criminal plea can block a subsequent civil lawsuit.
Florida lawyers get lesson on how to sue the dead
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - An absolute two-year limit on liability against the estate of a dead person doomed a lawsuit by women who were injured in an accident with a man driving a company car, the Florida Supreme Court ruled.
Expelled Yale student can sue accuser over sex-assault claims
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A student who was expelled from Yale University on sex-assault claims can sue his accuser for defamation because the school’s disciplinary committee lacked basic due-process protections, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled.
Lack of security at Fla. convenience store alleged in lawsuit over murder
TAMPA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) — The family of a man who was murdered at a Tara Food & Beverage Mart in Lakeland, Fla., is claiming a lack of security measures.
Lawsuit says pharmacy gave woman sedative by mistake, leading to car wreck
PARAGOULD, Ark. (Legal Newsline) — An Arkansas woman alleges a pharmacy gave her a sedative drug instead of her correct prescription, which caused her to fall asleep at the wheel of her car.
'In a straitjacket:' Ninth Circuit ruling will leave cities powerless to confront homelessness, judges warn
The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court refused to reconsider its decision allowing a class action to continue vs Oregon city, seeking to bar enforcement of 'anti-camping' ordinances. Dissenters said the decision amounts to new constitutional right to camp anywhere
Check coming due for middle-school bully in $1.75 million case of attack during touch football game
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - An eighth-grade bully who seriously injured a classmate 40 pounds lighter during a touch football game will now possibly be on the hook for some of the $1.75 million verdict.
Court: $15K enough for woman whose neighbor threatened her, called her the N-word
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who endured years of racially motivated abuse by a neighbor isn’t entitled to more than $15,000 in damages for emotional distress, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled, rejecting a state commission’s argument the award was too low.
Eddie Bauer to face lawsuit alleging list prices inflated at outlet
SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who paid $19.99 for a fleece zip at an Eddie Bauer outlet store can sue the company because it falsely said it was discounted 50% from the “list price” of $39.99, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled, rejecting arguments the plaintiff also had to show there was something wrong with the quality of the item.