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February 09, 2023 - Class Action, Privacy, TCPA
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: TCPA Litigation
By: David J. Fioccola, Adam J. Hunt, Tiffani B. Figueroa and Lily Valentine Westergaard
In the final installment of our Privacy Litigation Year in Review series, we focus on important developments in TCPA litigation. Following the Supreme Court’s adoption of a narrow definition of “autodialers” (ATDS) in the 2021 case Facebook v. Duguid , courts across the country
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February 01, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: CCPA Litigation & Enforcement
By: Mark David McPherson, Purvi G. Patel and Dillon Kraus
In part four of our Privacy Litigation Year in Review series, we discuss courts’ continuing efforts to construe the private right of action provision in the California Consumer Privacy Act. Last year, we noted that plaintiffs were trying to stretch the CCPA’s private right
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January 25, 2023 - Class Action, Privacy
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Data Breach Litigation
By: Nancy R. Thomas and Matt Wyatt
022 was another record-setting year for data breach class actions. Here’s our take on the key developments and trends we have seen over the past year, as well as what we should watch for in 2023. We count 43 major data breach class actions
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January 19, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy, Retail
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)
By: Tiffany Cheung
Second in our Privacy Litigation Year in Review series is an overview of cases under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In 2022, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) litigation was bustling. Defendants in BIPA cases ranged from pharmacies, insurance companies, and social media
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January 12, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy, Retail
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Wiretapping Litigation
By: Purvi G. Patel and Erik Manukyan
2022 brought a new wave of data privacy lawsuits seeking to impose wiretapping liability on website operators and their service providers—just as the dust settled on the first wave. To date, plaintiffs have filed over 120 such lawsuits across nine jurisdictions (California, Florida, Illinois,
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December 13, 2022 - Class Action, Mass Torts
Supreme Court To Settle Longstanding Split Over Stays Pending Arbitration Appeals
By: Joseph R. Palmore and Adam L. Sorensen
The Supreme Court just agreed to review an important question at the intersection of arbitration law and appellate practice. Its ultimate decision in the case could provide a major boost to defendants seeking to enforce arbitration agreements in circuits (including the Second and Ninth) where
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October 04, 2022 - FDA
Water Is In, White Bread Is Out: “Healthy” Gets a New Look in 2023
By: Claudia M. Vetesi, Lena Gankin and Nick R. Dyess
For decades, health-conscious consumers have argued about what it really means for a food to be “healthy.” Is dark chocolate “healthy”? How about breakfast cereal, coffee, or fruit gummies? At the same time, class action litigants have seized on ever-evolving and subjective definitions of “healthy,” pursuing claims
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July 01, 2022 - Arbitration
This Week at the Ninth: Intervention and Arbitration
By: James R. Sigel and Adam L. Sorensen
This week, the Court address whether an employee can intervene in her co-worker’s employment suit, and orders discovery to determine whether a litigant was bound by her counsel’s agreement to arbitrate. Read the full blog post.
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June 30, 2022 - Appellate & Supreme Court, Class Certification, Class Action
How Do Rule 23(F) Petitions Fare In The Ninth Circuit?
By: Joseph R. Palmore
The Ninth Circuit gets more requests to appeal class-certification decisions under Rule 23(f) than any other court. How do those requests fare? We take a look below, drawing from this invaluable nationwide study by Professor Bryan Lammon. Background Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f)
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June 24, 2022 - Announcements & Press
Morrison Foerster’s Class Actions + Mass Torts Practice Achieves Top Rankings by The Legal 500
Morrison Foerster’s Class Actions + Mass Torts Practice Achieves Top Rankings by The Legal 500 The Legal 500 US 2022 has recognized Morrison Foerster as a top Tier 1 in Product Liability, Mass Torts, and Class Action (Defense) for Consumer Products. Additionally, the practice
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