Class Action Numbers Dip in 2023, but Settlements Still Costing Billions Class-action and government enforcement lawsuits continued to take a toll on corporate defendants in 2023, with ten $1 billion settlements... Read More
Netflix Beats Shareholder Lawsuit over Account-Sharing Disclosures Netflix has defeated a lawsuit filed by shareholders in a federal court in California that accused the streaming entertainment company... Read More
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Russian Billionaire and Sotheby’s Fight Over ‘The Lost Leonardo’ Painting Sotheby’s abused its “privilege, power and reputation” to help dupe a Russian billionaire out of millions of dollars as he... Read More
Elon Musk’s Drug Use Is the Latest Headache for Tesla’s Board Elon Musk’s reported drug use has Tesla Inc. board members facing a familiar quandary: having to decide what, if anything,... Read More
Netflix Beats Shareholder Lawsuit over Account-Sharing Disclosures Netflix has defeated a lawsuit filed by shareholders in a federal court in California that accused the streaming entertainment company... Read More
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US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Exxon, Koch Industries Appeal in Climate Case The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a bid by major fossil fuel companies and an industry trade group... Read More
J&J to Pay $700 Million to Settle States’ Talc-Marketing Probe Johnson & Johnson has tentatively agreed to pay about $700 million to resolve an investigation by more than 40 US... Read More