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Despite a unanimous ruling by the Washington Supreme Court against a pediatric dental practice seeking insurance coverage for COVID-19-related losses, attorneys for policyholders said the justices left them a glimmer of hope by creating a potential pathway for some virus coverage cases to succeed.
The Biden administration and conservation groups have reached an agreement to permanently close 11 dormant oil wells inside California's Carrizo Plain National Monument, ending a suit that accused the federal government of unlawfully approving a new oil well and potential pipeline.
Several Washington businesses urged a Ninth Circuit panel Friday to rule that their insurance policies cover COVID-19-related business losses related to government shutdown orders, while the judges wrestled with whether they should make any decision at all until the Washington Supreme Court rules on its first COVID-19 coverage suit.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation raised no red flags Thursday about consolidating 18 lawsuits alleging that Abbott Laboratories' Similac infant formula caused a deadly illness in premature babies, but at a Seattle hearing the panel questioned whether Abbott's choice of judge has an appearance of conflict because he once represented the company.
Amazon.com Inc. was accused in a federal court filing Tuesday of "rehashing its failed arguments" by claiming it can't be held liable for misusing a group of Illinois residents' biometric data in a photo dataset allegedly used to improve facial recognition software because the tech giant never used or benefited from the photos.