Watershed criminal justice result based in part on pro bono amicus work by Lieff Cabraser attorney Evan Ballan On March 11, 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order creating a critical new criminal justice standard, permitting criminal defendants to seek post-conviction DNA innocence testing even if they had pled
City of Nashville Mayor John Cooper has announced that the city of Nashville will receive $23 million to recoup taxpayer funds allocated to emergency government responses to the opioid epidemic from 2017 through the present. The news comes in the wake of an historic $26 billion nationwide settlement with American opioid manufacturers and distributors reached
On March 11, 2022, Lieff Cabraser and FeganScott filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three University of San Francisco (USF) Baseball student-athletes against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), USF, and two USF coaches, Nino Giarratano and Troy Nakamura, alleging a long-standing history of abuse of student-athletes by the
Government’s new report shows that employers face little competition for workers, allowing companies to pay employees substantially less than a so-called “free” market would manifest A new study has been released by the U.S. government revealing that despite a purported “tight” labor market that should give workers leverage, in fact the system is deeply flawed
On Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, Lieff Cabraser attorney Jessica Moldovan will speak at the AAML NY Chapter Annual March Program on the topic, “The Threat to Roe, Then and Now.” The CLE-credit program was set up by the Chapter’s Social Action Committee, and also features Slate Magazine’s News Director, Susan Matthews. As the program notes,
On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021, which restores survivors’ option to hold their abusers accountable in public court rather than in secretive, private arbitration (often funded by the defendant). The law prohibits employers from imposing the provisions of arbitration
The World Health Organization and UNICEF have published a new report that summarizes the findings of a multi-national study examining the impact of formula milk marketing on infant feeding decisions and practices. The research study, the largest of its kind to date, draws on the experiences of over 8,000 women and more than 300 health
Potentially lethal bacteria feared to be present in Abbott’s powdered milk products aimed at infants Abbott Laboratories has expanded its nationwide emergency recall of three infant powdered milk products after a second infant has died after using the formula. Originally recalled on February 18, 2022, the formula variations were all produced at Abbott’s manufacturing facility
We are delighted to announce that Lieff Cabraser partner Michelle Lamy has been named to Bloomberg Law’s “They’ve Got Next: Five Fresh Faces to Know in Consumer Litigation.”
Over 90% of litigating local governments have confirmed participation in the global settlements approved today by the “Big Three” drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, along with opioid manufacturer Johnson & Johnson Washington, D.C. (February 25, 2022) – Today, the National Prescription Opiate Litigation Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee confirmed participation of over 90% of litigating