Plaintiffs seeking to consolidate a slew of lawsuits against baby food makers for allegedly concealing toxic metal contamination into a single multidistrict litigation faced broad opposition both from defendants and fellow plaintiffs at a Judicial Panel on Multidistrict.
The NCAA men's basketball corruption scandal may have tanked a student-athlete's college hoops dreams, but that's not enough to bring civil racketeering claims against Adidas and others implicated in the scheme, a South Carolina federal judge said Wednesday when dismissing the case.
A man arrested for growing marijuana told a Colorado federal judge Friday that the Canadian private equity firms named in his racketeering suit can't exit the case because they admit in their pleadings to providing funding for a federally illegal cannabis enterprise.