The judge rejected a motion for a broad protective order but issued a narrower one. Reuters reports: A federal judge overseeing litigation over multiple General Motors recalls last year will allow plaintiffs' lawyers to share some nonconfidential material gathered during discovery, rejecting the company's bid to broadly ban public pretrial dissemination of the material. On […]
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After discussing various cases against Chipotle based on misclassification and off-the-clock work, the story goes on to claim that private wage/hour enforcement is rising in general. The reaction of the industry representative interviewed for the story is telling: “Plaintiffs’ attorneys, the employees’ attorneys, became aware that this was sort of lucrative ground for them to […]
Brian posted earlier this morning about cyber-security concerns leading to some of the recalls. Two other notable aspects of today's recall and $105 million fine, the largest in U.S. history, are: -The company will offer to buy back up to half a million Dodge Ram pickups because of suspension problems that can result in a […]
The ability of hackers to hijack cars' computer systems has been in the news recently. (Go here for instance.) Fiat Chrysler is recalling 1.4 vehicle susceptible to hacking. The recalled vehicles are in these models: • 2013-2015 MY Dodge Viper specialty vehicles • 2013-2015 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups • 2013-2015 Ram 3500, 4500, […]
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Throwing away food — huge amounts of perfectly good food — is part of our culture — at least for now. Each year, Americans throw away enough food to fill 730 large football stadiums. John Oliver says that two easy legal changes — a tax credit for certain companies and sensibly regulating food "use-by" and […]
Laws in all states generally require kids to be vaccinated against various childhood diseases before they may attend school. (And, of course, school attendance itself is legally required.) But most of those laws have exceptions to accommodate parents' religious and philosophical objections. (And the laws don't require kids to be vaccinated when their medical conditions […]
Yesterday, in a product-defect class action about Volvos with faulty sunroofs, the Third Circuit addressed two important class action questions — one arising in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, the other to be examined in the upcoming term in Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo. The Comcast question, which we've […]
The Wall Street Journal explains: Time and again, consumer ads claim a medicine is the number one drug prescribed by physicians. Putting aside the question of whether such boasting is actually true, what remains unclear is the extent to which consumers view such information positively or as a substitute for effectiveness data. And so, the […]
The Supreme Court's 2012 rejection of a challenge to Obamacare had a downside for the law: because the Court deemed the law's expansion of Medicaid to additional low-income individuals "coercive" to the states (even though, as Justice Ginsburg pointed out in her dissent on that holding, the government would pick up most to all of the […]