Less than two years after a federal judge effectively wiped out thousands of lawsuits over Zantac, a legal showdown over the recalled heartburn medication is flaring up in state courts. On May 23, the first verdict in the nation over Zantac came out in Illinois, where jurors in Chicago’s Cook County…

Amazon.com is accused of monopolizing the audiobook market in an antitrust class action filed in Seattle Thursday, with the suit stemming from the company’s alleged market power over authors via its audiobook platform Audible. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and…

New Mexico Law Firm Adds Diesel Users to Mix of Price Gouging Antitrust Class | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/06/14/army-of-lawyers-suit-up-for-price-gouging-antitrust-class-actions/ “Eleven nearly identical putative class action complaints have been filed against defendants, alleging a conspiracy to constrain the production of shale oil to increase the price of oil products,”…

Despite law firms staying quiet about their use of artificial intelligence and how it will impact the legal industry, experts agree that AI will fundamentally change how firms operate. But will the rise of AI create a need for executives solely tasked with AI, or will that just fall under the…

A coalition that involves attorneys who represent survivors of childhood sexual abuse is pressing for quicker resolutions of court cases filed under New York’s Child Victims Act, claiming the backlog of thousands of unresolved cases warrants a specialized court to move those cases along. However, a spokesman for the Office of Court…

Intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson has formalized an appellate group, as the firm seeks to ramp up both internal and external marketing of its appellate services. The newly formed appellate group is co-led by principals Lauren Degnan in Washington, D.C., and Nitika Gupta Fiorella in Delaware. Overall, the group, seeing…