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Arbitration agreement could doom class action against Sam's Club
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Ignorance is no defense, says Sam’s Club as it fights as a class action lawsuit over membership perks.
Six Flags beats harassment case despite HR's 'boys will be boys' response
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Six Flags has defeated a St. Louis lawsuit from a teenage girl who alleged sexual harassment from co-workers who pulled down their pants and showed her a sexually explicit video.
Court: Personal injury lawyer lied to former partners about values of cases he took with him
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) – A personal injury lawyer lied to his former partners about the value of some of his pending claims when negotiating a split, a Missouri court has ruled.
Dentist drills into woman's tongue, ordered to pay $2.5 million verdict
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – A multimillion-dollar verdict against a dentist who drilled into a woman’s tongue has been affirmed by a Missouri appeals court.
Huge talc verdict against J&J cut by $2.5B but still bad news for company
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – A 10-figure verdict against Johnson & Johnson in an asbestos case has been reduced by an appeals court but has stayed massive, thanks to judges finding “significant reprehensibility” in the company’s conduct and deciding large companies should face higher punitive damages awards.
Sam's Club asks judge to toss lawsuit over membership perks
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Sam’s Club has moved to dismiss a class action lawsuit recently filed against it over a membership package.
Missouri tax issues at center of class action against Overstock.com
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) - Overstock.com is facing a class action lawsuit in St. Louis that alleges it charges a higher sales tax than is allowed.
Lawyers hope changing one word lets them sue in St. Louis; Dog-food maker accuses them of forum-shopping
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Lawyers hoping to cash in on a booming field of litigation in a new way want their lawsuit over dog food ingredients heard in the Missouri court that became a hotspot for Roundup weed-killer and talcum powder cases.
He broke into the wrong hotel room and fondled a 9-year-old. He sued the hotel
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – A man arrested on a business trip after drunkenly breaking into the wrong hotel room and getting undressed and in bed with a little girl he then fondled has lost his lawsuit that blamed the hotel for him getting fired.
Despite high interest rates, legal finance companies fend off class actions from customers
Federal judges are rejecting class action lawsuits against a popular lending company that fronts money to people with lawsuits in exchange for a portion of their recovery.
Seeing all those Roundup commercials? That's because lawyers have spent $60M on them this year
The search for clients to file cancer lawsuits over the weed-killer Roundup has exploded – even as the EPA says the product does not cause what lawyers are alleging.
‘Business decision’: Former DEA official works for opioid lawyers but set standards for how many pills were made
Now, Rannazzisi is helping private lawyers pin the blame squarely on manufacturers and distributors of opioids, as well as pharmacies. A post-DEA alliance with trial lawyers has been worth six figures for Rannazzisi, who has been hailed as a whistleblower by those cheering attempts to prosecute the opioid industry for the nation’s addiction crisis.
Same day, different verdicts: Why do some juries think there is asbestos in talcum powder and others don't?
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – Judges continue to play a crucial role in the sprawling, possibly multibillion-dollar talcum powder litigation facing Johnson & Johnson by choosing how jurors will view the plaintiffs’ key expert.