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Protein quality the subject of class action over meatless burgers
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A San Diego woman is suing a company that makes plant-based burger patties, claiming they don't contain as much protein as advertised.
California Highway Patrol must keep fighting lawsuit over fatal accident
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California appeals court has reversed a decision that granted immunity to the California Highway Patrol after the parents of a man who was kicked out of an Uber then struck and killed by an officer sued.
Law firm: Man hired to drum up business was useless
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – A personal injury law firm’s recent motion to dismiss reveals the past details of its court fight with a litigation services professional who sued over the proceeds of mass tort litigation.
Lawsuit says rescue dogs were actually from puppy mills
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - Pet owners have filed a class action lawsuit against a group of alleged puppy mills.
Lawsuit: Hearthstone upgrade packs allow children to gamble
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A young player of an online card game called Hearthstone is suing its maker for allowing her to gamble.
Chiefs team up with Bengals to face California's attorney general in court
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – The Kansas City Chiefs have joined the team that ended their season in trying to prevent a former player from pursuing a Workers’ Compensation claim in California.
Even after more than a year, California defendant can call on arbitration clause
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Time mostly wasted can’t cancel a defendant’s request to send a lawsuit to arbitration.
Victim of sexual abuse sues Google, Apple and Snapchat
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A girl is suing Snap, Apple and Google for their alleged roles in the sexual grooming she went through.
Judge on class action: Reasonable consumers can read sugar content on drink's label
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – A federal judge has tossed a class action lawsuit that claimed GoodBelly probiotic drinks weren’t as healthy as they were marketed to be because they contain sugar.
Lawsuit filed over benzophenone in Neutrogena skin cream
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A class action lawsuit alleges consumers would not have purchased Neutrogena Healthy Skin Firming Cream with Broad Spectrum had they known it contained benzophenone.
Litigation services pro wants cut of law firm's fees from Woolsey Fire settlements
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – A California law firm is accused of not paying a litigation services professional it retained to push mass tort cases that turned into a $2.2 billion settlement.
Legal malpractice suit against Edwards Wilder revived
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California law firm that became part of Locke Lord might still face liability for its representation of a disgruntled client who tried to sue the London-based Daily Mail.
Massive judgment against J&J, Ethicon over pelvic mesh marketing stands in California
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – Johnson & Johnson has mostly lost its appeal of a nine-figure judgment against it over the marketing of its transvaginal pelvic mesh products.
Bad news in court for psychiatric hospital that hired 'Rapey Juan'
VENTURA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A cap on noneconomic damages for certain health care lawsuits doesn’t apply to instances of elder abuse at a psychiatric hospital, a California court has ruled.
Judge: California legislators went too far in requiring diversity on corporate boards
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California state court judge has struck down a law that requires companies based in the state to put minorities and women on their boards of directors.
Judge moves tuna class action lawsuit to California
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – A proposed class action lawsuit over where tuna is caught is moving across the country.
Nestle now to face lawsuit over slave labor in West Africa
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – After almost three years, plaintiff lawyers have finally come up with a complaint that adequately alleges Nestle falsely labeled products to mislead consumers about the use of child and slave labor in the West African cocoa supply chain.
Cincinnati Bengals - or at least their lawyers - back in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Having lost Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles, the Cincinnati Bengals now have no intention of fighting a former player's Workers' Comp claim there.
Class action complains "fat bombs" aren't diet food
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - SlimFast is cheating consumers watching their weight with their chocolate snack cups called Keto Fat Bombs, a lawsuit alleges.
Calif. mobile home park says law keeping it from raising rents is unconstitutional
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - The owner of a southern California mobile home park is challenging a new California law that limits its ability to raise rents.