U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, who is handling the first bellwether in the MDL that relates to Zofran, has announced the date of October 18th as the potential start of the trial. Plaintiffs allege that Zofran, a drug manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline to ease...
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,...
On February 19, District Judge Leigh Martin May appointed attorneys from two law firms to serve as co-lead counsel for the more than 120 cases that have been consolidated in the multidistrict litigation pending in the Northern District of Georgia. Erin K. Copeland of...
On Friday, February 3, 2021, Bayer AG announced that it had reached a formal agreement with plaintiffs’ class counsel to resolve future Roundup claims. As part of the agreement currently awaiting approval before presiding Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District...
On January 29, the judge presiding over the Valsartan litigation, US District Judge Robert B. Kugler refused to dismiss claims of fraud brought by the consumers against the defendant manufacturers in three master complaints; similar claims against wholesalers and...
As we move into 2021, it is helpful to assess the current state of mass torts and class action and think about how these matters may develop over the course of the year. Despite the impact of the COVID pandemic, some matters are picking up momentum, some long-standing...
Women make up a majority of the group of 25 attorneys appointed by a New Jersey federal judge on January 22 to the Elmiron MDL leadership team; the team also includes a significant number of minority women and younger attorneys who have never served in leadership...
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...
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...
Dupont, Corteva and Chemours announced on January 22 that they have entered into an agreement in which the companies will resolve legal disputes stemming from the 2015 spin-off of Chemours from parent company E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co and jointly commit $4 billion...
