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Lawsuit: California hitting up small businesses for lost tax revenue from Amazon
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – California has passed the buck to small online merchants in order to make up for tax it never charged Amazon.
Apple fends off lawsuit from company it didn't want to buy, hired employees away from
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – “Costly” litigation against Apple has possibly come to a close with a victory in a California appeals court.
Lawyers lose $242K in fees in ADA case as court rules they weren't 'prevailing party'
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Disabilities lawyers are out of luck after a California appeals court found they aren’t entitled to the hundreds of thousands of dollars they requested in a lawsuit against a Rio Nido restaurant.
Walmart sued over 'lifetime' tire service after shuttering auto care centers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Walmart faces a class action lawsuit over whether the “lifetime” tire balance and rotation service was misleading, given that the company closed all of its auto care centers.
Fishing group sues recycling center over harm to environment
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A California fishing group is suing Metech Recycling over its facility in Gilroy.
Instagram is going through your phone, class action lawsuit says
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Instagram is “constantly accessing” the cameras of its users’ phones, a new class action says.
P.F. Chang's tells Ninth Circuit krab vs. crab lawsuit is 'cash grab'
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A federal appeals court could soon be hearing arguments on whether P.F. Chang’s customers would read “krab” on the menu and expect real crab to be in those dishes.
Lawsuit filed for investors of Intel who suffered stock price drop
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The securities class action firm Bernstein Litowitz has set its sights on Intel, filing a lawsuit on Sept. 16 on behalf of a Hallandale Beach, Fla., public pension fund.
Hostage who jumped out of car during gunfight loses lawsuit against police
SAN JOAQUIN, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A bank employee taken hostage who threw herself out of a car during a high-speed police chase has lost her lawsuit against the California city of Stockton.
Zoom asbestos trial nears verdict while another starts
ALAMEDA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – The third virtual asbestos trial in Northern California starts Monday, while jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations in the second.
Lawyers commence jostling for control of shareholder case against Bayer over Roundup
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers are lining up to take another shot at Bayer AG, with major securities firms asking to be in charge of litigation on behalf of investors in the company.
Litigation in the time of COVID: Zoom says class action lawyers taking advantage
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers are hoping to punish Zoom for its new popularity, the company says as it defends itself in federal court against security claims.
Appeals court asked to halt asbestos trial after plaintiff's friendly, private chat with jurors
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – An asbestos defendant is appealing the rejection of its request for a mistrial after the plaintiff was left alone in a Zoom chatroom with the jury.
Ninth Circuit OKs $6,700-an-hour attorneys fees over furious dissent in class action
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has approved attorneys fees in a class action over Bank of America overdraft charges that amounts to more than $6,700 an hour, rejecting the objections of a dissenting judge and attorneys general of seven states who said the court failed to consider how much work lawyers put into the case or what the settlement was really worth.
Shutterfly sued for mailing school pics home
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Shutterfly is hassling parents with pictures of their children, a new class action lawsuit filed Aug. 27 claims.
Class action lawyers argue they aren't as greedy as Tootsie Roll says they are
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers mad about empty space in theater candy want their case heard in a state court rather than federal.
Challenge to coffee-causes-cancer label to continue, possibly resolve dozens of lawsuits against businesses
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A California federal court has refused to throw out a lawsuit that challenges the state’s coffee-causes-cancer label.
Evacuations during California wildfires complicate troubled virtual asbestos trial
ALAMEDA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Things aren’t smoothing out in the nation’s first attempt at virtual asbestos trials in Alameda County, Calif.
New Roundup litigation: Healthy customers complaining there's no warning label
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A product found by the Environmental Protection Agency to not cause cancer should still have a warning label that indicates it might, a new class action says.
No mistrial in virtual asbestos trial after plaintiff chatted with jurors about Zoom backgrounds
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A friendly chat between a plaintiff and the jurors deciding his case was improper but isn’t enough for a mistrial, says the judge presiding over one of the first virtual asbestos trials during the coronavirus pandemic.