A California shopper who received food assistance filed a consumer class action lawsuit against Albertsons after he claimed he was wrongfully charged electronic benefit transfer funds for reusable plastic bags, which is prohibited by Proposition 67. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases…

California Judge Reduces $332M Roundup Verdict to $28M | The Recorder Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/therecorder/2024/02/28/california-judge-reduces-332m-roundup-verdict-to-28m/ San Diego County Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright. Credit:  John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune NEWS San Diego County Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright on Monday denied Monsanto’s posttrial motions and upheld the Oct. 31 verdict,…

Biden Orders DOJ, Other Federal Agencies to Protect Americans’ Personal Data | National Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2024/02/28/biden-orders-doj-other-federal-agencies-to-protect-americans-personal-data/ U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM NEWS “Our adversaries are exploiting Americans’ sensitive personal data to threaten our national security,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys called for leniency in a sentencing submission filed late Tuesday, arguing that “a sentence that returns Sam promptly to a productive role in society” is most appropriate in his case. Bankman-Fried’s attorneys at Mukasey Young, led by Marc Mukasey, described the 100-year sentence recommendation in…

Litigation continues to pile up against New York Community Bancorp Inc. in the Eastern District of New York, with three derivative cases filed on Tuesday. That brings the total number of new EDNY cases filed this month against NYCB, which has been the parent company of Flagstar Bank for more than a year, to…

A Manhattan law firm that represents creditors has agreed to pay more than $650,000 to settle a New York investigation that it filed frivolous lawsuits in housing court matters that were already resolved, the state attorney general’s office said Wednesday. The settlement requires Tromberg, Morris & Poulin to pay $595,600…