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Putative class challenges health-benefits claims for FiveFingers running shoes
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- July 19 2012
Seeking to certify a state-wide class of product purchasers, a California resident has filed a consumer fraud action against the company that makes running shoes marketed with “health benefit” claims
Class claims one-cup brewing system promotions violated consumer protection laws
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- February 23 2012
According to a news source, a putative class action has been filed against companies making Tassimo single-cup coffee brewing systems, alleging that they misled consumers by promising that Starbucks’ brewing cups would remain available for use in the coffee makers despite knowing that the company would stop selling the cups
U.S. Supreme Court grants cert. on corporate civil tort liability under Alien Tort Statute
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- October 27 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to review a Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision involving whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) confers federal jurisdiction over tort claims against corporations
Delaware Supreme Court upholds $3.95 million in sanctions for destroying documents
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- August 11 2011
The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court properly imposed $3.95 million in sanctions against a party who effectively removed documents from his work computer while under a preservation order
Tort reforms sweep through three states
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- June 23 2011
The governors of South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama have recently signed tort reform bills designed to benefit existing businesses and attract new ones to their respective states
Texas Senate approves new version of “loser pays” tort reform bill
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- May 26 2011
The Texas Senate has passed a new version of a "loser pays" tort reform bill recently approved in the Texas House of Representatives
Second Circuit finds jurisdictional issues abandoned by out-of-state gun retailers
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- May 26 2011
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a default judgment entered against out-of-state retail firearms dealers, but remanded for the district court to reconsider the injunctive relief imposed
Transmission capabilities at issue in baby monitor litigation; claims to proceed
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- April 28 2011
A federal court in Illinois has denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss a second amended complaint alleging that unencrypted baby video monitors should have been labeled and sold as such and that omitting this information violated consumer fraud laws
California Supreme Court explores limits of standing in consumer protection law
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- February 3 2011
In a case alleging that a lockset manufacturer violated consumer protection laws by falsely labeling its products as "Made in the U.S.A.,” the California Supreme Court has determined that the plaintiff has standing to bring the action despite the enactment of Proposition 64, which placed some limitations on those who can file unfair competition and false advertising lawsuits
FASB reconsiders disclosure of litigation costs
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- September 2 2010
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has reportedly issued a proposal that would require companies to disclose information about potential litigation costs when they publish their financial disclosures
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Litigation
- Workarea - Company & Commercial
- Firm Name - Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Author - Simon Castley