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Bankruptcies …
Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy just days after he was ordered to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he falsely accused of fraud following Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss … Plaintiffs’ lawyer Andrew Birchfield and his firm, Beasley Allen, urged a federal judge to reject J&J’s bid to kick them off the mass tort litigation over the company’s talc products … Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX Trading announced a settlement with liquidators for FTX’s Bahamas unit … Pharmacy chain Rite Aid received court approval for a bankruptcy loan that would let the company borrow an additional $200 million, while agreeing to enter mediation.
Class actions …
An Alabama federal judge certified a class of child sex abuse survivors who are suing Pornhub parent MindGeek on claims that it profited from the spread of child sexual abuse material … Lawyers at Planned Parenthood and other groups dropped a class-action lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban … The National Association of Realtors and several major residential brokerages urged a U.S. judge to throw out a class-action lawsuit from home sellers claiming more than $13 billion in damages.
Environmental lawsuits …
A federal judge in North Carolina won’t force the U.S. government to turn over a draft of a study on cancer incidence at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to attorneys representing people allegedly harmed by tainted water on the base … The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the EPA’s “Good Neighbor” plan aimed at reducing ozone emissions that may worsen air pollution in neighboring states … Bayer’s Monsanto was ordered to pay $857 million to seven former students and parent volunteers of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed that leaked PCBs made by the company made them sick … Conservation groups sued BNSF Railway, claiming trains on its rail lines have struck and killed at least 63 threatened grizzly bears in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho since 2008.
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Employers who want to make it harder for their workers to arbitrate wage-and-hour demands should raise a cup of good cheer to the Manhattan strip club Rick’s Cabaret New York. Alison Frankel details why a 2nd Circuit win for the strip club’s parent might embolden employers to insist on contract terms that require employees to pay an equal share of the requisite fees to initiate arbitration — even if those terms conflict with arbitration providers’ rules. Read more.
Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu
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Additional writing by Tanvi Shenoy.
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