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Vince Chhabria | cand.uscourts.gov SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers leading multidistrict litigation against Bayer AG over its Roundup herbicide are scheduled to face off against dissident lawyers in federal court in California tomorrow as a judge hears arguments for and against an 8.5% “common benefit” fee that opponents call an $800 million “money grab.” The fees would come off the top of the nearly $11 billion Bayer has offered to settle ...

Attorneys representing the Texas-led coalition of attorneys general suing Google over its display advertising business are under orders from their lead counsel not to use Gmail for fear the company could somehow mine emails to its advantage.

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Towleroad Gay News Last year, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that the “bread ” surrounding sandwiches made by the fast food chain Subway had too much sugar to meet the legal definition of bread. Now the restaurant chain is the subject of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California targeting its tuna sandwich. The Washington Post reports: “The star ingredient, according to the lawsuit, is ‘made from anything but tuna.’ Based on independent lab tests of...

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Tuna at Subway is actually a mystery meat, a new class action lawsuit against the company alleges. Eaters hoping for actual tuna in their subs or wraps are instead fed “a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet have been blended together by (Subway) to imitate the appearance of tuna,” the Jan. 21 lawsuit says. Mark Lanier and colleagues at The Lanier Law Firm of Texas and Shalini Dogra of Dogra Law Group in Santa Monica are pursuing...

WILMINGTON — After UNCW’s student-run newspaper, The Seahawk, tweeted a paid political advertisement in the weeks before the November election, at least one member of the university’s board of trustees wasn’t pleased.  While The Seahawk is operated by students, it is funded primarily by student fees. Every full-time undergraduate at UNCW pays $2,173 per year in fees; $12.50 per person goes toward student media, which includes The Seahawk as well as other campus publicatio...

Paxton AUSTIN – For every hour Mark Lanier spends litigating an antitrust lawsuit against Google, he stands to make as much as $3,780 per hour – thanks to a potentially lucrative deal the Houston attorney signed with the state of Texas. Back in December, Attorney General Paxton announced Texas was leading a multistate coalition in litigation against Google, alleging the company monopolized products and services used by advertisers and publishers in online-display adv...

A former U.S. Food and Drug Administration leader under two presidents is expected to be named soon to a full-time post in the Biden administration, a lawyer said Monday in multidistrict opioid litigation during a battle over the onetime FDA boss' testimony.

It’s not typical for the Texas attorney general’s office — one of the nation’s largest, with some 4,000 employees including hundreds of attorneys — to hire outside counsel, though it has sometimes done so for high-profile cases. Credit: REUTERS/Bill Clark Texas may pay tens of millions of dollars to outside attorneys hired to handle a major lawsuit against Google — money the state did not plan to spend before a scandal enveloped Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...

Synopsis The complaint, which targets Googles central role in the buying and selling of display ads across the web, was filed in federal court in Texas Wednesday. THE ECONOMIC TIMES By Ben Brody and David McLaughlin Alphabet Inc.’s Google reached an illegal deal with Facebook Inc. to maintain a chokehold over the lucrative digital advertising market, according to a lawsuit filed by 10 states led by Texas. Liking this story? SUBSCRIBE Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... The complaint,...