A $92M deal is undergoing approval to settle claims between TikTok and its users for biometric privacy violations against parent company ByteDance in Illinois Federal Court. Plaintiffs allege that TikTok does not inform users, many of whom are teenagers and children,...
Litigation Update: Clearview Al Privacy Lawsuit Remanded to State Court
Clearview Al, a facial recognition technology company, is facing a series of lawsuits. Plaintiffs claim that the company was “scraping together” facial data from various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and selling access to a compiled...
Litigation Update: Johnson & Johnson Wins False Advertising Dismissal
On January 25th, Johnson & Johnson won a dismissal on the proposal of a class action lawsuit regarding the safety of talc in their products. The 2019 lawsuit initiated by plaintiffs stated that J&J misled consumers by falsely advertising the safety of using...
Litigation Update: Diversity Governs in Elmiron’s Plaintiff Steering Committee
Consumers in the Elmiron MDL against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) informed a New Jersey federal judge that they have chosen diverse representation to serve on the plaintiff steering committee. The committee is diverse in a number of ways, including ethnicity,...
Litigation Update: Special Masters Are Appointed in Valsartan Contamination
U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler named former Pennsylvania federal Judge Lawrence F. Stengel, and former Delaware Judge Gregory M. Sleet as special masters in charge of overseeing settlement conferences in the multidistrict litigation regarding the alleged...
Litigation Update: Zantac Videoconference Hearings Begin
There have been a number of groups affected by the pending MDL involving Zantac, the popular heartburn medication. It is alleged that the defendants knew that Zantac was hazardous to consumers for years, but it only became publicly known in September, 2019 when the...