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Fassett Joins Wilson Sonsini’s Colorado Office as a Partner; Firm Continues to Grow Its Corporate Life Sciences Practice and Its Mountain West Region Presence Contact:Kelsey DellovoBaretz+Brunelle339.223.0961 Mobilekdellovo@baretzbrunelle.com PALO ALTO, CA (June 14, 2022) – Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises…

On April 27, 2022, Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an opinion, on a motion to dismiss, addressing several important governance topics about director and officer compensation—including where some members of management might constitute controlling stockholders. In this case—Knight v. Miller 1 —the plaintiff, a stockholder of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS…

The plaintiffs also allege that YouTube made it "exceedingly difficult and unnecessarily confusing" for consumers to cancel their subscriptions.

On May 19, 2022, a panel of the Ninth Circuit unanimously affirmed the district court's dismissal of a putative securities fraud class action accusing Nektar Therapeutics and several of...

In Shoner v. Carrier Corporation, No. 20-56327 (9th Cir. Apr. 14, 2022), the Ninth Circuit recently held awardable attorneys' fees can be counted toward the minimum amount...

On May 27, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released a much-anticipated first draft of some of the anticipated regulations implementing the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).1 The release accompanied the CPPA’s announcement of its next public meeting on June 8, 2022, where the agency will, among other agenda items, consider possible action regarding the draft regulations…

In less than a year, the legal teams eventually delivered two separate settlements in the complex and emotionally difficult Champlain Towers South class-action case— one to condo owners for $96 million in property losses and a surprisingly large second one to victims’ families for $1 billion in wrongful-death and injury claims. Now, the legal bill is due to be...

Last week, my colleague Seth Goldberg and I published a client alert highlighting a series of cases filed in Oregon federal court against Curaleaf for allegedly mislabeling THC products...

Three members of Congress proposed a bipartisan data privacy bill aiming to establish a framework for national consumer privacy last week.

An Illinois federal judge dismissed most of a class action lawsuit accusing Target Corporation of mislabeling some of its cosmetic products as “oil-free.”