Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF’s contributor site We’ve commented twice before (here and here) on the indigestion-causing class action suits that were filed in New Jersey and California against Ferrero, the maker of Nutella. The gist of the complaints is that Ferrero misled consumers with statements and images on the product label and in ads that Nutella was [...]
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Nutella Class Action Settlement: Not Part of a Balanced Civil Justice System
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged abusive litigation, legal activism, litigation industry on January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Second Circuit Ruling: All Is Not Lost for Chevron in Ecuador Battle
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, Environmental Law & Regulation, tagged environment, fraud, litigation, litigation industry on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF contributor site Chevron Corp. suffered a setback yesterday in its efforts to prevent enforcement of a $17.2 billion judgment issued by an Ecuadorian court based on charges that Chevron is responsible for environmental damages in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York [...]
Update: High Court Denies Review in Case on Businesses’ Association & Speech Rights
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged litigation industry, speech, Supreme Court on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Back on the First Monday in October 2011, we noted two First Amendment-related cert petitions that were pending with the Supreme Court. The Court denied review to the first, State Farm v. Bedell, in late November. It denied review in the second case, Natso v. 3 Girls Enterprises, today. The denial leaves untouched a troubling [...]
Money, not Hybrid Cars, is the Green in Honda Civic Class Action Settlement
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged CAFA, litigation, litigation industry on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Honda Civic Hybrid owners everywhere feel they’ve been cheated. Or at least that’s what their class action lawyers have said. Numerous lawsuits have been filed in the past several years alleging that Honda misled consumers in advertisements on the amount of miles per gallon their Civic Hybrid would get. Honda denies these allegations, but has decided [...]
Federal Circuit Court Goes Its Own Way on Standing in Data Security Class Action
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged litigation, litigation industry, privacy on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Class action lawsuits alleging data privacy-related violations were quite prevelant in 2011, and observers are expecting that trend to continue, if not expand, in 2012. The Legal Pulse has published a series of posts on one key issue in such suits – what constitutes “harm” in the context of standing to sue – over the past six [...]
Judge “Likes” Plaintiffs’ Arguments, Online Privacy Class Action Proceeds
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged litigation, litigation industry, privacy on December 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF contributor site Federal courts spent the last two weeks of 2011 cranking out notable rulings in many areas of law and affecting a broad range of American businesses. One particularly interesting decision came from the Northern District of California, a hotbed of online privacy-related class action litigation. Judges there have generally been stiff-arming [...]
Food Lawsuits Claiming “Addiction” Coming to a Courtroom Near You?
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged abusive litigation, junk science, litigation, litigation industry on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF’s Contributor Site Plaintiffs’ lawyers and their activist allies have been working to turn ”unhealthy” food and drink products into the “next tobacco.” Through high-stakes litigation, they pursue their dual goals of 1) regulating how such companies design, produce, and market their products and 2) transferring billions of dollars in hard-earned profits to lawyers’ and activists’ pockets. These [...]
Court Empowers “Deceived” California Nutella Purchasers to Sue as a Class
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged advertising, legal activism, litigation industry on December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On February 2, 2011, plaintiff Athena Hohenberg filed a complaint against Ferrero U.S.A. Inc. alleging that Ferrero untruthfully promoted its product – Nutella – as a healthful product. According to Hohenberg, advertising language such as “An example of a tasty yet balanced breakfast,” and television commercials depicting “happy children” led her to feed Nutella to her [...]
Federal Judges Have Harsh Words, Rulings for Class Action Plaintiffs’ Lawyers
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged abusive litigation, litigation, litigation industry on December 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF Contributor Site The plaintiffs’ bar often bemoans that class action lawsuits get a bad rap. But two federal court rulings from last month offer reminders as to why people think class actions have more to do with lawyer enrichment than client compensation. Each suit has the appearance of being lawyer-driven, and in both resulting decisions, the [...]
Courts Grapple with Concept of “Harm” in Online Privacy Suits
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, tagged litigation, litigation industry, privacy on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF Contributor Site The fundamental legal principle that only those who have been “harmed” can sue in U.S. courts is being put to the test by the ever-evolving, subjective concept of “privacy” in the equally organic online world. U.S. Supreme Court rulings on so-called Article III standing reflect that a harm must be 1) concrete, [...]
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