FTC Reaches Settlement With XCast Labs Over Illegal Robocalls
U.S. regulators and XCast Labs have agreed on a proposed settlement of charges that the company facilitated billions of illegal robocalls, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...
Litigation/Liability Trends
EEOC Says No Need to Pause Lawsuit Against Tesla for Race Bias
A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc's bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker's flagship ...
Florida Suit Over Charged Lemonade Death Puts New Focus on Energy Drink Safety
Panera Bread Co. must face a lawsuit over a death allegedly linked to its new line of "charged" lemonades, which have thrust the company into the spotlight and brought a renewed focus on the safety ...
Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse
Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the pharmacy chain misused the technology to ...
Citi Suit Raises #MeToo Claims at Wall Street’s Top Levels
Ardith Lindsey's lawsuit accusing Citigroup Inc. of tolerating years of sexual harassment and assault against her struck a chord across Wall Street for many reasons, not least of which was her title: ...
Georgia and Pennsylvania Share Top Spot on ATRF’s Latest Judicial Hellholes List
The American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF) on Tuesday released its 2023-2024 Judicial Hellholes report, with two jurisdictions sharing the top spot for the first time in ...
3M, DuPont Defeat Massive Class Action Over Forever Chemicals
A U.S. appeals court on Monday handed 3M, Corteva Inc subsidiary E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co and other manufacturers of toxic so-called "forever chemicals" a big win ...
Climate Activists, Companies Lawyer Up for Courtroom Battles
As global temperatures and emissions climb, people are increasingly turning to courtrooms to challenge fossil fuel companies' activities, leading to wins on issues like ...
‘Litigation Harvesting’: The Rise and Fall of McClenny Moseley
In December 2022, before much was known about how Houston's McClenny Moseley & Associates could set up shop in New Orleans—and sign up thousands of Louisiana ...
2B or Not 2B? That Was the Question for Aspartame
In March 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designated glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as "probably ...