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Business groups, a pro-business think tank and a drug store advocacy group have backed Walmart's attempt to torpedo the federal government's suit claiming the retail chain helped spur the nationwide opioid epidemic by failing to scrutinize suspicious prescriptions.
The Texas Supreme Court in Austin. (Courthouse News photo / Kelsey Jukam)
AUSTIN, Texas (CN) Facebook urged the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday to dismiss lawsuits from three women who say they were pulled into the sex trade by pimps who contacted them on the company’s social media platforms.
The world’s largest social media network with 2.8 billion active users, Facebook has vastly expanded its footprint since Mark Zuckerberg started it in 2004 as a way for him and his fellow Harvard students to connect.
Facebook has acquired 78 companies over the past 15 years, including the popular apps Instagram and WhatsApp.
Both Facebook and Instagram are named as defendants in separate lawsuits three Jane Does filed against them in Harris County in 2018 and 2019.
John Masslon of Washington Legal Foundation, co-authored amicus brief
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - The Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), a public-interest law firm, has asked a federal appeals court to decertify a class of USAA life insurance policyholders, who are alleging that the company breached their life insurance policies by considering “unlisted factors” when setting their cost of insurance rates.
An amicus filed by WLF with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said that a district court’s class certification in
Spegele v.
USAA Life Ins. Co. “not only creates a glaring intra-class conflict by forcing injured and uninjured policyholders into a single class in violation of Rule 23 [federal rules of procedure covering class actions], but it papers over crucial choice-of-law and statute-of-limitations questions that are unavoidably individualized.”
Tiger Joyce | ATRA
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Many elected officials are oblivious to the restrictions on health care access and the overall damage to the economy caused by rampant abuse of the legal system, Tiger Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association, told the Washington Legal Foundation in a recent interview.
“Too often, profound problems in the civil justice system are dismissed as matters only for lawyers and judges,” Joyce said. “The reality is that the worst abuses in litigation are a problem for all.”
The interview, conducted on Jan. 11, focused on the release in December of ATRA’s annual “Judicial Hellholes” report, which ranks the nation’s courts, local and state governments in their bias towards plaintiffs in civil actions.