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NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge said Johnson & Johnson shareholders may pursue as a class action their lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulently concealing how its talc products were contaminated by cancer-causing asbestos. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi in Trenton, New Jersey, on Friday allowed shareholders from Feb. 22, 2013, to Dec. 13, 2018, to pursue their securities fraud claims as a group. He rejected J&J's argument that any class period be at least a year shorter ...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Hershey has been sued by a Florida woman who said its holiday-themed Reeses peanut butter candies lack the artistic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge said Johnson & Johnson shareholders may pursue as a class action their lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulently concealing how its talc products were contaminated by cancer-causing asbestos. U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi in Trenton, New Jersey, on Friday allowed shareholders from Feb. 22, 2013, to Dec. 13, 2018, to pursue their securities fraud claims as a group. He rejected J&J's argument that any class period be at least a year shorter ...

Hershey has been sued by a Florida woman who said its holiday-themed Reese's peanut butter candies lack the artistic details shown on the packaging that make them worth buying. In a proposed federal class action filed on Thursday and seeking at least $5 million, Cynthia Kelly accused Hershey of deceiving reasonable consumers by falsely promising that its candies would contain "explicit carved out artistic designs." She said she would not have paid $4.49 in October at an Aldi for...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Alibaba's bid to dismiss a lawsuit over the alleged sale by various mercha...

A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected the National Rifle Associations bid to end a corruption probe by state Attorney General Letitia James that the gun rights group has viewed as... -December 28, 2023 at 01:13 pm EST - MarketScreener

A federal judge ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon offered and sold unregistered securities, according to court filing on... -December 28, 2023 at 04:30 pm EST - MarketScreener

A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon offered and sold unregistered securities. ... -December 28, 2023 at 05:01 pm EST - MarketScreener

A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected the National Rifle Association's bid to end a corruption probe by state Attorney General Letitia James that the gun rights group has viewed as politically motivated. The unanimous decision by a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan came 1-1/2 weeks before a scheduled Jan. 8 trial, where James is seeking remedies including the removal of NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre. James, a Democrat, sued the NRA in August 2020 s...

Alphabet's Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled Feb. 5, 2024 trial in the proposed class action on hold on Thursday, after lawyers for Google and for consumers said they had reached a preliminary settlement. Neither Google nor lawyers for the plaintiff consumers immediately responded to r...