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Business Interruption Lawsuits May Consolidate into a Series of Mini-MDLs
The business interruption insurance lawsuits brought in the wake of COVID-19 promise to keep the federal court system busy for years. There will likely be thousands of complex cases with high-stakes...
Federal judge approves multi-billion dollar settlement between local governments and the Sackler family
Purdue Pharmaceuticals Purdue Pharma is a multi-decade old company that is thought to be largely responsible for the opioid epidemic. This is due to their creati...
Airbnb Owners Sue Company Over March Refunds for Owners
A recently filed class action lawsuit demonstrates the difficulties that travel companies have faced during the pandemic. In a way, they are caught between a rock and a hard place. There have been many lawsuits filed...
Consumer Sues Nestle Claiming that the Vanilla in Coffee Mate Is Artificial
A favorite lawsuit filed by class action attorneys is that a consumer product is not what it claims to customers in its marketing. The attorneys get a decent cut of the settlement agreement while ...
Redfin Sued for "Digital Redlining" Over its Minimum Sales Price
The online discount real estate broker Redfin has been sued in federal court by a number of housing nonprofit organizations claiming that its business practices amount to illegal discrimination. Specifically...
Student Sues UT-Austin, Citing Inferiority of Online Education
A student at the University of Texas at Austin has joined a growing list of others filing class-action lawsuits against colleges and universities around the country in the wake of the pandemic. On February 2...
Class Action Lawsuits Versus Regular Claims
A lawsuit that's filed by an individual differs from a class action suit since any damages awarded by a judge are paid to a single plaintiff. A class-action lawsuit is filed when a group of people suffering financial or ph...
Student Loan Borrowers Sue the Federal Government
Student loan borrowers have been having a difficult time recently. Even though laws have given them some relief from loan payment obligations for the time being, every day seems to bring a fresh assault on this seemingly b...
Catastrophic Wildfires Spark Class-Action Lawsuits Against Pacific Corporation
Labor Day catastrophic fires have raged out of control in Oregon. The plaintiffs, Robin Colbert and Jeanyne James, have filed a class-action lawsuit in the Multnomah County Circuit Court. The...