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Many of these cases have lead to class action lawsuits and proceedings by the Federal Trade Commision (FTC), resulting in a number of settlements worth millions — or even billions — of dollars ...
Lawsuit Subject of lawsuit Court of decision Year of decision AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion: contracts that exclude class action arbitration: Supreme Court of the United States: 2011 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit: SLUSA preempting state law class action claims: Supreme Court of the United States: 2006 West v. Randall
The FTC and the Justice Department both have the authority to file lawsuits seeking to block or invalidate unlawful mergers. The FTC may challenge a merger in its own administrative court instead of filing a lawsuit in a United States district court, although defendants can appeal the FTC's decisions to one of the United States courts of ...
The majority of these cases are filed by the companies that created the patented invention. But a growing share of the lawsuits [6] is coming from non-practicing entities (NPEs) – also called patent trolls – which acquire patents for the sole purpose of licensing and asserting their patent rights. In fact, NPE litigation grew from 2.6 ...
USAA also paid out $64 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to overcharging military members who were entitled to certain protections. Then there’s the many changes higher up.
A class action lawsuit filed last year in US District Court in Minnesota argued that UnitedHealthcare uses AI “in place of real medical professionals to wrongfully deny elderly patients care ...
Comcast Corp., No. 2:15-cv-01239, 2016 WL 11652073 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 5, 2016); reversed, 743 Fed. Appx. 106 (9th Cir. 2018). Holding; A §1981 plaintiff bears the burden of showing that the plaintiff's race was a but-for cause of its injury, and that burden remains constant over the life of the lawsuit. Court membership; Chief Justice John Roberts
Warranty claims historically required privity between the injured party and the manufacturer or seller; in plain English, they must be dealing directly with one another. As noted above, this requirement was demolished in the landmark Henningsen case. Breach of warranty-based product liability claims usually focus on one of three types: