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Competition is on to see who leads securities class action against Okta
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Law firms are battling to lead a securities class action against cybersecurity company Okta, which saw a drop in the value of its stock after an incident with hackers.
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Federal Fortnite lawsuit barely alive after $26M settlement in North Carolina
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The maker of the video game Fortnite says a federal class action against it over in-game purchases must be thrown out of court.
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Group pushing coffee-causes-cancer lawsuits makes latest plea after Ninth Circuit ruling goes against it
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - Repeating allegations that led a federal judge to recuse herself from litigation over acrylamide in foods, a lawyer-driven nonprofit group has asked the judge who replaces her to reverse orders that stopped its lawsuits in their tracks.
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Lawyers may collect $60K in fees and costs over car-loan dispute
FRESNO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who represented a couple who sought to reverse the purchase of a used car that turned out to be a lemon may collect nearly $60,000 in fees and costs from the lender, a California appeals court ruled.
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Attempted payoff by class action lawyers to objector rejected by judge
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge rejected a proposal by plaintiff lawyers to pay a man $25,000 to drop his objection to a $114 million antitrust settlement, saying she didn’t want to set a precedent for similar “objector blackmail” in other cases.
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Judges in Sacramento want no part of acrylamide Prop 65 case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – No federal judge in Sacramento wants to hear a key lawsuit that will decide if coffee should come with a could-cause-cancer label.
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Local group run by husband of judge in coffee-causes-cancer case no longer a CalChamber member
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Her husband’s group is no longer a member of ours, the California Chamber of Commerce has stated after questions arose whether Judge Kimberly Mueller was able to fairly preside over one of its lawsuits.
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Lawyers can snag $21 million from Zoom privacy settlement
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Lawyers are asking for more than $21 million for scoring a settlement that refunds Zoom customers up to 15% of the money they paid for their subscriptions while the company had alleged privacy concerns.
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Facing tax charges, serial lawsuit filer is called out by federal judge for trying to inflate damages
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge has rejected a serial plaintiff’s effort to increase damages in a lawsuit brought under a civil rights law, noticing that the quadriplegic man visited the same business multiple times despite claiming it wasn’t handicap-accessible.
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Walnut law firm sued by former client who alleges they botched lawsuit against spammer
REDWOOD CITY - A lengthy lawsuit in the San Mateo County Superior Court accuses a Walnut law firm of choosing to take a case the type of which they had no previous experience.
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Dispute breaks out over investment in class action
SAN FRANCISCO - A company that purchases and sells class action lawsuit claims has itself been sued in the San Francisco County Superior Court for allegedly failing to pay a customer for the claims he purchased.
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Attorney sues global law firm Nixon Peabody for alleged disability discrimination
SAN FRANCISCO - Multiple civil allegations against the New York-based Nixon Peabody LLP include disability discrimination, retaliation and others.
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Personal injury lawyer sues Facebook after account suspended multiple times
Facebook faces charges in California federal court for allegedly violating its own terms of service, according to a lengthy lawsuit filed on March 25 in the San Mateo County Superior Court.
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Federal judge dismisses 'drive-by ADA lawsuits' filed against hotel reservations websites
A federal judge in California has dismissed the first two in a series of hundreds of lawsuits filed against hotel owners for allegedly failing to provide sufficient accessibility information on their online booking platforms.
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'Lawyer's lawyer' Jim Krieg has passed; Remembered as 'very, very wise'
One of Jim Kreig’s favorite career memories was deposing the comic Billy Crystal on a breach of contract dispute.That’s according to a lawyer he mentored for 20 years
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Bayer to pay $2B to settle Roundup claims; Lawyers to ask for $170 million
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Bayer says it has reached a formal $2 billion agreement with the lawyers pushing tens of thousands of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma lawsuit.
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California's COVID-19 church restrictions in danger of being ruled unconstitutional
California's COVID-related church restrictions will be up for debate this week after the U.S. Supreme Court kicked a lawsuit by Pasadena’s Harvest Rock Church down to the state's lower courts.
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Zoom again wants litigation over its security systems thrown out
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Zoom is again asking a federal judge to throw out lawsuits against it that claim its security systems weren’t up to par.
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Ninth Circuit upholds California law banning extreme livestock confinement practices
A federal court ruling recently denied a challenge to California’s Proposition 12, known as the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.
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Law school graduates can start applying for provisional licenses in a few weeks
The California Supreme Court has announced a Provisional Licensure Program for recent law school graduates will get underway in November.