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Appeal filed after lawyers lose class action against Catalina Crunch

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Class action lawyers won't give up after a federal judge through out their claims Catalina Crunch cereals mislead consumers into thinking their flavors contain those actual ingredients.

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Frontier fees case should lose most of its claims, magistrate judge suggests

By John O'Brien |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Plenty should be dismissed from a class action lawsuit against Frontier Airlines over its fees for bags, a federal magistrate judge has ruled, though one count could go forward.

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Class action fails, as no 'reasonable' consumer would expect lemon and honey in flavored Alka-Seltzer Plus

By John O'Brien |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge will throw out a class action lawsuit that claimed people who bought flavored Alka-Seltzer Plus cold medicine were tricked by pictures of lemon and honey on the package.

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Oasis Legal Finance gets class action against it booted from N.J. court

By John O'Brien |
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who challenged her agreement with Oasis Legal Finance as illegal has been told she filed her lawsuit in the wrong court.

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'A mess': Expert in Fla. toxic tort plagiarizes cancer research of others, tries to submit it to court

By John O'Brien |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - More plaintiffs have been booted from a Florida toxic tort lawsuit because the expert hired by lawyers to connect their cancers to substances released at a Lockheed Martin plant plagiarized the work of a research group.

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Class action over mini-Southern Comfort might be certified

By John O'Brien |
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - Having defeated some of a motion to dismiss, lawyers are now asking for class action status in a case alleging malt miniature bottles of Southern Comfort trick customers into thinking they are buying whiskey.

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Pellet maker attacks class action, questions attorneys' use of the word 'exact'

By John O'Brien |
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A maker of air gun pellets is asking a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action complaint that alleges the measurements on their ammunition is off.

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Schwan's beats another class action over Mrs. Smith's pie crust

By John O'Brien |
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has refused the claims of a class action lawyer called a "wrecking ball" by a colleague that alleged Schwan's didn't use enough "real butter" in its pie crust.

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Autism plaintiffs rejected from Florida Lockheed Martin toxic tort

By John O'Brien |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Autism is among the disorders that lawyers can't prove to be caused by a Florida Lockheed Martin plant.

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Houston-area chiropractors get good news in RICO case alleging they ripped off insurance companies

By John O'Brien |
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - Insurers who footed the bill for personal injury settlements shouldn't succeed in recouping their losses from health care providers they alleged conspired to inflate the cost of care, a federal magistrate judge says.

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Sixth Circuit won't touch ruling that ended huge PFAS class action

By John O'Brien |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - The bold class action lawsuit that once hoped to include virtually every American has officially ended.

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Woman sues United after she's injured by fellow passenger exiting plane

By Chris Dickerson |
A Riviera Beach woman has filed a lawsuit against United Airlines claiming she was injured by a fellow passenger who was rushing to get off of the airplane.

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Museum of Sex counts receipts, says class action can't be in federal court

By John O'Brien |
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The Museum of Sex says a lawsuit against it is too small to be heard in federal court.

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Wrongful death case against Riverside County trimmed but moving forward

By John O'Brien |
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California federal judge has allowed three of nine claims to move forward in a lawsuit alleging prison staff in Riverside County helped cause the murder of an inmate.

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Ruling will keep tourists and their money out of Bar Harbor

By John O'Brien |
PORTLAND, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The tourist destination Bar Harbor, Maine, can restrict cruise ship passengers from entering the town in order to keep locals happy.

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Judge rejects idea green Perrier bottles fool customers wanting lime juice in their water

By John O'Brien |
PENSACOLA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - No reasonable consumer would be tricked by a green bottle into thinking the water inside contained more lime than what was listed on the ingredients list, a federal judge has ruled in rejecting a class action lawsuit.

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U.S. Supreme Court reverses Colorado bid to take Trump off ballot

By Michael Carroll |
Colorado lacks the authority to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday in an opinion that seems to end all legal actions to declare Trump an insurrectionist who is ineligible to hold the office.

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Reynolds hopes to foil foil lawsuit over 'Made in U.S.A.' claim

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - The maker of Reynolds aluminum foil is hoping for a better result in California as it asks a federal judge there to toss a class action lawsuit over its "Made in U.S.A." claims.

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San Diego says police would have violated murder victim's rights by entering residence without warrant

By John O'Brien |
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - The City of San Diego is defending its police officers' decision to leave what would become the scene of a murder without a warrant.

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Walmart rejects idea it is responsible for woman being scammed

By John O'Brien |
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Your problems with scammers are not our fault, Walmart is telling a woman who filed a class action lawsuit against it over security measures.