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UK Residents Party to 8 Class Actions Each, Research Shows

A recent report has found that class actions on behalf of 540 million U.K. members have been issued between 2015 and 2023—equivalent to just over eight actions for every individual. The research by law firm CMS found that, as of the end of 2023, the total claimed value of class actions…

CrowdStrike Glitch Highlights Risk of Single Point of Failure in Cybersecurity

Competition regulators have been on high alert for risks posed by too much market concentration, where a single point of failure can disrupt business worldwide. A cascading information technology outage that recently grounded hundreds of flights, upended health care and halted banking across the globe has been no exception. The…

New York Court of Appeals Mulls Validity of Universal Vote-by-Mail Law

New York’s top court appeared to lean toward affirming the constitutionality of the no-excuse, vote-by-mail law ushered in by state Democratic lawmakers in January. During more than an hour of arguments on Tuesday, a number of Court of Appeals judges appeared to indicate the new law is on solid ground,…