The Supreme Court made an interesting and unanimous ruling this week regarding requirements for class action lawsuits. As it stands under the Class Action Fairness Act, class action lawsuits in which plaintiffs seek damages greater than $5 million must be held in a federal district court. The ruling came in response to the case of [...]
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E-Discovery has become an essential part of the litigation process, but it has the potential to be extremely costly. More often than not, the majority of the expenses fall on the defendant. In recent years courts have begun to relieve this burden in certain cases by implementing cost allocation structures. A memorandum filed on August [...] The antitrust case of Kleen Products, LLC, et. al. v. Packaging Corporation of America, et. al., which many may know as the “other” predictive coding case, has finally started to tear the attention of the e-discovery industry away from Da Silva Moore. While the issue at hand in Da Silva Moore was the argument over the [...] Yesterday, April 11th, the Department of Justice officially filed a complaint against Apple, Inc. and five publishers on the grounds that they violated antitrust laws by conspiring to lower the price of e-books. As covered here earlier, Apple adopted an “agency model” of pricing that allowed publishers to set the prices of e-books in return [...] There appears to be progress in the Department of Justice’s probe into possible collusion between Apple Inc. and publishers to raise the price of e-books. The probe, announced at the end of 2011, has been investigating whether or not Apple entered into agreements with publishers that resulted in cost increases for e-books. The alleged motivation [...] Sony is forcing online gamers to waive rights to filing class-action lawsuits. The move came after suits sparked by several instances of hacking in the past year, one of which made data vulnerable for 75 million users. As a result, customers filed a class-action lawsuit for the loss of their personal information, a week-long period [...] |
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