Class action fee awards are experiencing a shift in which counsel's compensation is becoming more about the benefits secured for class members than simply the amount of money involved in a settlement, according to a panel of experts who discussed the topic Thursday.
Microsoft Corp. can invoke a contract between Uber Inc. and two rideshare drivers to steer the drivers' biometric privacy claims against Microsoft to arbitration, even though the tech giant was potentially negligent by litigating the case for nearly two years before invoking the Uber contract's protections for third parties, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.
All that the U.S. government has proven in its case accusing a sweepstakes machine business owner of bribing two Illinois lawmakers is that the legislators entered a criminal agreement themselves, and kept the business owner out of it, his attorney argued in federal court Wednesday.
An Illinois consumer can't pursue fraud claims over Pet Supplies Plus' alleged failure to list whole flaxseeds among the ingredients for its private-label wet cat food because she hasn't shown the alleged omission was material, a state appellate panel said.
Illinois jurors weighing federal fraud and bribery charges against a sweepstakes machine business owner heard recordings Monday from two meetings in which a then-state representative discussed paying a then-state senator for his help passing industry regulations the business owner had sought.