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2021 was another year of high activity in the realm of data event and cybersecurity litigations with several noteworthy developments.

While the California Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld arbitration agreements with class action waivers (as they must under the Federal Arbitration Act),

Earlier this month, a magistrate judge in the Northern District of California dealt another blow to the "kitchen sink" approach to pleading affirmative defenses.

On December 2, 2021, Judge Cormac J. Carney of the United Stated District Court for the Central District of California denied, in substantial part, a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against an electric truck manufacturer for allegedly misleading investors.

A wave of consumers have filed putative class action complaints against a long list of consumer-facing website owners/operators and their software providers alleging invasion of privacy rights...

Oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Hughes v. Northwestern University will have broader implications for both 401(k) and 403(b) plans.

In August 2018, Robert Franklin bought an iPhone 6 from his local Walmart Supercenter in Sulphur Springs, Texas.

New York federal courts have recently shown a willingness to dismiss implausible mislabeling claims on the pleadings. The recent dismissal of three consumer class actions...

As we recently reported, California juries continue to award massive verdicts to employees with alarming regularity. And, just in time for the holidays, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury upped the ante on Thursday...

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Mayfield Consumer Products on behalf of candle factory workers alleging they were told they would be fired if they left work ahead of