Tech Group Sues Trump Over Order Weakening Social Media Immunity June 3, 2020 By Alison Frankel and Nandita Bose An advocacy group backed by the tech industry sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would...
Consumer Groups Oppose Immunity for Businesses From Coronavirus Lawsuits April 30, 2020 By Tom Hals and Alison Frankel U.S. consumer advocates are urging Congress to resist growing demands by companies for protections from coronavirus-related lawsuits as states start...
Tesla CEO Musk Just Made It Easier for Shareholders to Sue: Viewpoint August 14, 2018 By Alison Frankel On Monday morning, six days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was thinking about taking the company private...
Supreme Court Could Decide Who Can Sue Equifax for Data Breach Liability September 12, 2017 By Alison Frankel Less than a day after Equifax revealed one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. corporate history, the credit reporting...
Trump University Settlement May Not Be Done Deal After All March 9, 2017 By Alison Frankel The private lawyers who reached a proposed $25 million settlement last November with then President-elect Donald Trump, resolving class action...
Pelvic Mesh Maker Alleges Doctors, Lawyers, Litigation Funders Schemed to Inflate Damage Claims May 23, 2016 By Alison Frankel and Jessica Dye American Medical Systems, a major defendant in litigation over controversial vaginal mesh devices, is accusing “a pyramid of businessmen, doctors...
Boies, Edwards Among 140 Lawyers Vying to Take Lead Against Volkswagen January 12, 2016 By Alison Frankel Among the more than 140 plaintiffs’ lawyers competing to lead private litigation against Volkswagen over its emissions cheating scandal is...
Surgical Funding Firm Accused of Inflating Claims September 29, 2015 By Alison Frankel and Jessica Dye A unit of Johnson & Johnson that makes artificial hips has accused a surgical funding company of seeking excessive profits...
Business Lobbies Seek Probe of Medical Funding Industry August 27, 2015 By Alison Frankel and Jessica Dye Two business lobbying groups this week called on the Consumer Financial Protection Board to investigate the medical funding industry after...
U.S. Veterans Sue Banks, Allege Money Scheme Aided Terrorists November 12, 2014 By Alison Frankel Wounded U.S. veterans and family members of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq sued five European banks on Monday, seeking to...