Lieff Cabraser partner Rachel Geman will speak as featured faculty at the Strafford CLE video webinar entitled “Medical Monitoring in Personal Injury, Products Liability, and Medical Device Litigation: Developments and Strategies,” taking place on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, from 1:00pm-2:30 pm EDT.
As reported by Law360, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, has issued a crucial health alert emphasizing the harmful effects of social media on the well-being of America’s youth. The advisory, coming as it does from a new perspective, clearly classifies social media platforms as “products,” a stance that could significantly reshape the range of applicable law.
Prince George’s joins other school districts in Maryland and nationwide seeking accountability for addictive social media products harming students, straining resources UPPER MARLBORO, MD – Prince George’s County Public Schools, one of the 20 largest school districts in the country, today filed a lawsuit against social media companies Meta, Google, ByteDance, and Snap Inc. alleging
Unprecedented in scope, speed, and significance, the global settlement, reached just after plaintiffs concluded their case in the bellwether trial in San Francisco, is the culmination of four years of a vast, unrelenting effort by plaintiffs and their counsel to hold Altria accountable for the 21st century’s ‘cigarettes redux’ youth nicotine plague May 10, 2023,
As reported by Law360 in its ongoing coverage of the JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris), extraordinary allegations have surfaced from a former JUUL executive who claims he was fired after raising concerns about the company’s marketing campaigns targeting young users.
As reported by Law360, disturbing new details are emerging via evidence presented in the ongoing JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris) about the extent to which Altria and Juul allegedly conspired to further hook a new generation of young people on the nicotine in vaping products. According to a
Evidence presented in the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria (nee Philip Morris) in the national JUUL multidistrict litigation reveals new and shocking details about Altria’s buy-in to the tobacco vaping giant As reported by Law360, evidence unfolding in the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria in the national JUUL MDL
Selection of 12 jurors in the trial is expected to be completed by the end of the day, and opening arguments in this first bellwether trial, brought against Altria on behalf of the San Francisco Unified School District, will commence Monday April 24 On Friday, April 21, 2023, jury selection will
The lawsuit against Altria, brought by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel on behalf of the San Francisco Unified School District, moves forward on all counts after major settlements reached with Juul Labs As reported by Law360, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick has denied Altria’s summary judgment motion in the bellwether vaping
As reported by the Financial Times, the alarming rise in depression among children has been linked to social media use, and Big Tech may soon face a reckoning as a result. The recent tragic death of a UK teen adds to the growing body of evidence pointing to the negative impact of social media on