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3M's fight for info on how website referred ear plug plaintiffs could get moved to Florida
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – A website that refers readers to plaintiffs lawyers has asked for a transfer of 3M’s bid to learn more about it.
Dollar General sued over price of infants' pain reliever
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Another lawsuit alleges there is no difference between pain relievers for infants and children except the price.
Bringing a class action just got less enticing in the 11th Circuit
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Lead plaintiffs in class action lawsuits aren’t entitled to more money than the rest of their fellow class members, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Alan Dershowitz sues CNN for defamation, seeks $300M
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN for defamation and is seeking $300 million.
Class action firm hits back at lawsuit over fees from $22M settlement
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers accused of shortchanging their key consultant in a $22 million case say his case should be dismissed.
Big plaintiffs firms circle government clients to score PFAS litigation contracts
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – A memo from Miami-Dade County shows that the nation’s prominent plaintiffs firms are competing with and aligning to each other in the hopes of grabbing the most important clients – local governments.
Sticky frying pan class action ends with a whimper
TAMPA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – The woman who complained her as-seen-on-TV frying pan was too sticky has settled her individual claim rather than continue with her proposed class action.
Class action lawyers won't quit case against the Impossible Whopper
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers are preparing their appeal of a loss in their lawsuit against Burger King that complains Impossible Whoppers are cooked on the same grills as regular Whoppers.
Consultant says class action lawyers double-crossed him on fees
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A consultant whose work led to a $22 million class action settlement with Google is complaining that the lawyers who hired him also shortchanged him by several hundred thousand dollars.
R.J. Reynolds won't owe punitive damages in Fla. Engle case
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – R.J. Reynolds has defeated claims for punitive damages in one of the so-called Engle cases in Florida in which plaintiffs can blame tobacco companies for health problems.
David Beckham's Miami soccer stadium clears legal hurdle
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – The ballot measure that approved a new soccer stadium in Miami was written adequately, a Florida appeals court has ruled.
Bare-facers head to court to challenge facemask requirements
Confusion and outrage over facemask requirements have spilled over into courtrooms around the country as private citizens claim public officials have violated their Constitutional rights.
R.J. Reynolds sold off cigarette brands but must still pay tobacco settlement fees for them
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – R.J. Reynolds sold four of its cigarette brands but must keep paying for them, a Florida appeals court has ruled.
Netflix says Messiah doesn't defame detention center company
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Netflix wants a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that alleges it of defamation because of how immigration and detention centers are portrayed in the show Messiah.
Class action lawyers can't count, Folgers says in response to lawsuit
MIAMI (Legal newsline) – Folgers calls one of the class action lawsuits filed against it “demonstrably wrong” as it asks a Florida federal judge to toss it.
Women denied entry to strip club get second chance at discrimination lawsuit
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Women refused admittance to a strip club because they weren’t accompanied by a man will have another chance to make their case.
What's left of sticky pan class action sent to Florida
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – With only a single claim left, a proposed class action lawsuit over the stickiness of an as-seen-on-TV frying pan is limping off to Florida.
All-or-nothing verdict sheet was wrong, Fla. court rules in med-mal case
LAKELAND, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A jury was improperly instructed on how to return a medical malpractice verdict, a Florida appeals court has ruled.
So what if Impossible Whoppers and regular Whoppers share a grill, judge rules
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge has eviscerated a class action lawsuit against Burger King that complained its Impossible Whoppers were cooked on the same grills as regular Whoppers.
Fla. court keeps plaintiffs lawyers from teaming up against Samsung
LAKELAND, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Morgan & Morgan, the Florida-based law firm that recently took at least $12 million in taxpayer money, won’t be allowed to share what it learns in a lawsuit over vaping batteries with other personal injury lawyers.