WASHINGTON and MINNEAPOLIS and NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Decorated law firms Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen PLLP, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP, and Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
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January 26, 2021
Turkey wholesalers and a statistics aggregator defending price-fixing conspiracy claims have submitted their final brief in support of their motion for a protective order limiting the scope of discovery. The defendantsâ reply brief, filed last week, reiterates their earlier position that the plaintiffs have levied burdensome discovery requests in an effort to âtrawlâ for information resurrecting dismissed or supporting new claims.
The brief explains that the plaintiffs assert âa single rule of reason claim,â that between 2010 and 2017, through industry data aggregator Agri Stats, the defendants exchanged production and sales date information that gave rise to a conspiracy to raise and fix prices. The case is proceeding through discovery after the plaintiffsâ federal antitrust claims and most of their state antitrust and consumer protection claims survived the motion to dismiss phase.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP filed a lawsuit today on behalf of District of Columbia resident, Ms. Andrea S. Paterson, against Bank of America for repeated errors that resulted in missing and terminated Social Security benefits owed to Ms. Paterson s minor son. The lawsuit alleges that the Bank first refused to process one Social Security payment, then sent erroneous information about Ms. Paterson s family to the Social Security Administration (SSA). Relying on this information, SSA stopped making monthly payments owed to Ms. Paterson s son, resulting in almost $10,000 in missed benefits since August 2020.
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December 10, 2020
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of class certification in a lawsuit against Champion Petfoods in an opinion filed on Wednesday. The court determined that the plaintiff’s allegations that dog food sold by the defendant was misleading and that the packaging did not contain an accurate representation of the dog food were “without merit.”
The initial complaint, filed in March 2018 in the Central District of California, purported that Champion misled its consumers by not disclosing that its pet foods contained heavy metals and toxins. The defendants reportedly had a mission “to be trusted by pet lovers” and create pet food that mirrored what pets would eat in nature with natural ingredients, but betrayed the trust they had built by selling dog foods with various levels of arsenic, mucurly, lead, and cadmium. The plaintiffs have been seeking injunctive relief, an order enjoining the defendants from selling
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For years consumer product safety advocate groups have bemoaned the seeming lack of aggressiveness from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). As an example, they complain that the CPSC levied no civil penalties on companies in 2020, 2 in 2019, and only 1 in 2018, penalties being a surrogate in their minds for enforcement. As counsel for many companies, we know that this is not the case and CPSC compliance activity has remained vigorous. But perhaps the ongoing criticisms led Acting Chairman Robert Adler to publicly announce in mid-November the CPSC’s recent vote to refer a case to the DOJ for prosecution of a civil penalty.