SAVANNAH, Ga. - A cardiologist's lack of experience working in a prison setting does not preclude him from offering expert opinions on the standard of care provided to a man who died while incarcerated, a Georgia federal judge held Feb. 8 (Belinda Lee Maley, et al. v. Corizon Health, Inc., et al...
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri federal judge on Feb. 7 denied a motion by a candy company to dismiss a class complaint accusing it of deceiving customers by slack-filling its boxes of chocolate-covered raisins, finding that the named plaintiff has made sufficient claims to proceed at this stage (Lahonee Hawkins...
HAMMOND, Ind. - An Indiana federal judge on Feb. 7 trimmed testimony from two experts for a woman who says a faulty pelvic organ prolapse device she had inserted caused her a multitude of physical injuries (Barbara Kaiser, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, et al., No. 2:17-cv-114, N.D. Ind., 2018 U.S...
PORTLAND, Maine - A Maine dairy company and a class of workers entangled in a wage-and-hour lawsuit stemming from the lack of a serial comma in a list of activities exempted from Maine's overtime law filed a motion on Jan. 8 for preliminary review of a proposed $5 million settlement (Christopher...
LONDON - An England and Wales High Court justice on Feb. 9 ordered a group of Mauritius investors to post security costs in favor of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in relation to the investors' challenge of an arbitral award issued in Pakistan's favor in a dispute over the sale of an energy...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Five and a half months after preliminarily approving a settlement between Google LLC and a class of non-Gmail users, a California federal judge on Feb. 9 granted the plaintiffs' motion for final approval of the settlement in which Google agrees to stop scanning emails sent to Gmail...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida federal judge on Feb. 8 dismissed a class complaint over credit card numbers being printed on receipts following preliminary approval of a settlement, ruling that the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the claims (Eric Kirchein, et al. v. Pet Supermarket, Inc...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two expert witnesses for the U.S. government can testify about sex trafficking and the prostitution trade in a criminal case against a man and his female accomplice accused of forcing a 13-year-old girl to engage in commercial sex acts, a New Mexico federal judge ruled Feb. 8 after...
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A New York federal judge on Feb. 9 issued a decision clarifying her Nov. 17 preliminary injunction issued in a class complaint filed by asylum seekers alleging prolonged detentions, finding that a pending interlocutory appeal doesn't bar the clarification (Hanad Abdi, et al. v. Kirstjen...
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri federal judge on Feb. 12 remanded a class complaint over the St. Louis Rams moving to a new city, finding that the plaintiffs properly invoked the Class Action Fairness Act's (CAFA) local controversy exception (Ronald McAllister v. The St. Louis Rams, LLC, Nos. 16-172, 16-262...
LOS ANGELES - A California federal judge on Feb. 9 certified one of two proposed subclasses, comprising oil platform and processing facility workers, in a lawsuit against the operators of a Santa Barbara, Calif., pipeline that leaked into the Pacific Ocean in May 2015, finding that common questions predominate...
TAMPA, Fla. - Competing experts in a breach of contract lawsuit over the inspection of a company's airplane both had their proposed testimony limited Feb. 13 by a Florida federal judge (Oil Consulting Enterprise, Inc. v. Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support, LLC, No. 8:16-cv-3453, M.D. Fla....
NEW YORK - A New York federal magistrate judge on Feb. 9 granted final approval of a $1 million settlement to be paid by a Jewish school in Orange County, N.Y., to end class wage claims brought by the school's kitchen workers (Oscar Vivaldo, et al. v. United Talmudical Academy of Kiryas Joel, Inc...
DENVER - After finding that an arbitrator exceeded his authority when he issued an award in a gold mining case, despite a Mexican judge's ruling that found the underlying arbitration clause to be unenforceable, a Colorado federal magistrate judge on Feb. 13 recommended that a petition to confirm...
NEW YORK - A biomechanical engineer is not precluded from testifying in a personal injury action over a car crash just because his opinions were stricken in another recent auto accident case, a New York federal magistrate judge ruled Feb. 14 in denying a bid by the injured driver to exclude the expert's...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 20 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by 137 residents of a Pennsylvania town who say that illegal releases of radioactive materials from a nearby plant caused their cancers and the deaths of their family members and that a federal appeals...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 20 denied a petition for writ of certiorari that was filed by corporations that were intervenors on the side of the Federal Communications Commission in proceedings below and that challenged a decision by a split District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In its Feb. 20 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari by a health insurer that argued that the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals did not apply the proper actual or imminent harm standing in determining class members' standing under...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California federal judge in an order filed Feb. 16 certified a class of drivers suing Uber Technologies Inc. and its subsidiary Rasier LLC (collectively, Uber) for changing the pricing policy in 2016 and keeping a larger percentage of each fare, allegedly violating its agreement with...
KYIV, Ukraine - The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine on Feb. 19 announced that it has commenced arbitration against the Russian Federation with the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), alleging that it has violated its maritime rights.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. were denied discovery of certain privilege logs listing governmental communications over their proposed merger from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Feb. 20, when a District of Columbia federal judge found that the companies failed to establish...
LOS ANGELES - A California federal judge on Feb. 20 held that a consumer who claims that a tax preparation company, its franchisee and other entities manipulated tax returns and submitted them to the Internal Revenue Service without tax payers' consent has sufficiently alleged a theory of direct...
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein and the other defendants in a New York federal lawsuit alleging that Weinstein flashed, fondled, assaulted and raped multiple women filed separate motions on Feb. 20 seeking dismissal of the class complaint alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations...
SEATTLE - A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 21 cited Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), and joined the Second and Seventh circuits in ruling that a plaintiff alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) without alleging a concrete injury lacks standing to...
WILMINGTON, Del. - Various ConocoPhillips entities and the national oil company of Venezuela on Feb. 20 filed a joint letter in Delaware federal court, submitting arguments over whether a recent appellate court ruling should result in the dismissal of the oil company's claims that the Venezuelan...