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Judge in class action: Not reasonable to expect whole fruit in cereal

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A class action lawyer is giving up his lawsuit that alleged keto-friendly Catalina Crunch cereals misled consumers.

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Judge blocks SF sheriff from requiring criminal defendants on electronic monitoring to submit to searches

By Scott Holland |
Judge Jon Tigar allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed accusing the San Francisco sheriff's office of violating criminal defendants' Fourth Amendment rights against police searches by requiring them to agree to all searches as a condition of being released from jail on electronic monitoring

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Bad start for class action over gas stove emissions

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has gutted one of the first class action lawsuits that claims the makers of gas stoves have committed consumer fraud by portraying the items as safe when they emit harmful emissions.

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Court bans California state government from banning workplace arbitration

By Sarah Downey |
A federal court has issued a fixed injunction of California’s AB 51 arbitration ban, meaning employers who use such agreements can do so without the threat of sanctions by the state.

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Appeals court: Lowe's can't escape PAGA class action by enforcing arbitration clause vs lead plaintiff

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the California Supreme Court's interpretation of the state's controversial PAGA law holds sway over that of the U.S. Supreme Court

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Class action against matchmaker ends before Ninth Circuit can take it up

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Class action lawyers have ended their pursuit of a case against a dating service they claim bilked customers.

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2K Games fights class action over lost virtual currency

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - 2K Games is asking a federal judge to throw out a proposed class action lawsuit that complains players lose their virtual currency when old versions of games are retired.

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Class action lawyers get good news, bad news ruling in ChapStick case

By John O'Brien |
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has certified a class of customers who allege the "100% natural" claims on certain ChapStick products are misleading.

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SF can't enforce ordinance against homeless encampments, appeals panel says, even as SCOTUS ruling looms

By Sarah Downey |
A recent federal appellate ruling from the Ninth Circuit means San Francisco won’t be able to clear homeless encampments from city streets, unless the U.S. Supreme Court overturns another case involving homeless encampments.

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P&G wants Ninth Circuit to answer key class action question

By John O'Brien |
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Procter & Gamble wants a higher court to change a judge's ruling that allowed a class action lawsuit over its VapoRub products to proceed.

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Company defeats shareholder class action after stock drop in 2022

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has thrown out a shareholder lawsuit against Atlassian, a maker of collaboration and project-management software that suffered a 29% stock decline in 2022.

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Appeals panel revives fraud suit regarding Valeant's Apriso drug patents, says not defeated by 'public disclosure bar'

By Scott Holland |
The lawsuit on behalf of Medicare and Medicaid alleges drugmaker falsely obtained multiple patents and overcharged government customers. The appeals panel says a lawyer who has represented generic drugmakers may have 'stitched together' enough information to back his fraud claims

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Judge tosses Netflix shareholder class action

By John O'Brien |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - Netflix has defeated a class action complaint that sought compensation for investors.

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Appeals court OKs exploitation class actions against online porn sites

By Scott Holland |
Advocates say the decision could clear the way for others who claim they were exploited to sue foreign online porn operators

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Ninth Circuit says California State Bar is arm of the state, and is shielded from discrimination lawsuit

By Scott Holland |
Mountain View disability attorney alleged the California State Bar had violated disability law by declining to provide him with test-taking accommodations.

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Appeals court strips approval of pesticide EPA, growers say is needed to fight 'devastating' citrus crop diseases

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Environmentalists and judges agreed that the EPA needs to conduct more studies to determine if widely-used streptomycin is actually 'practically non-toxic' to bees and other pollinators, as EPA claims, before it can be used to save lemon, lime, orange and grapefruit crops in US from two ravaging bacterial diseases

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Activists file suit vs EPA, claiming children have a 'fundamental right' to a 'stable climate'

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuit asserts children in California and the U.S. face a future of nothing but despair if the EPA isn't forced by the courts to take action against emissions from oil, natural gas and coal, without regard for economic harm

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Defendant: Despite doomsday warnings, lawsuit over ChatGPT makes no specific claims

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs who warned of the end of humanity failed to make their case that their personal information was stolen to teach the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT.