Lieff Cabraser attorney Caitlin Woods will be featured as a distinguished speaker at the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association “Ski and CLE” event taking place January 26–29, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency Incline Village in Lake Tahoe. On day one of the program (1/27), Caitlin will discuss the JUUL e-cigarette multi-district litigation.
Plaintiff Tamara Bryant alleges her uterine cancer was caused by her regular and prolonged use of hair relaxer products manufactured by the defendants that contain phthalates and other endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) January 17, 2023, San Francisco–(BUSINESSWIRE)–On January 13, 2023, Lieff Cabraser, Equal Justice Society, and Serna & Associates PLLC filed a federal injury lawsuit
On December 14, 2022, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York issued an order appointing Lieff Cabraser Nashville Office Managing Partner Mark P. Chalos to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in multidistrict litigation against Exactech accusing the company of the manufacture and sale of defective knee, hip and ankle replacement systems that have
The four settlements with Juul Labs announced today resolve the personal injury, consumer class action, government entity, and tribal harm cases brought in the national MDL and the JCCP in CaliforniaCo-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs in the federal multidistrict litigation captioned In re: Juul Labs, Inc., Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability
On November 9, 2022, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California issued an order naming Lieff Cabraser partner Lexi J. Hazam as Co-Lead Counsel for plaintiffs in the nationwide multidistrict teen/youth social media addiction litigation alleging that social media apps such as Facebook and TikTok cause
The lawsuit challenges Meta/Instagram’s exploitative platform features, which it alleges were developed and honed to take advantage of developmental vulnerabilities in young users’ brains; “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” notes Instagram’s own internal report. San Francisco—(BUSINESSWIRE)—On September 1, 2022, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and Protectus Law
Federal court certifies four separate classes in national Juul teen injury, fraud, and RICO litigation that includes Juul Labs Inc. and Altria (formerly Philip Morris Companies, Inc.) as well as various individual corporate defendants June 29, 2022, San Francisco—(BUSINESSWIRE)—On June 29, 2022, plaintiffs in the federal Juul fraudulent advertising and
On June 23, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) issued a stunning market denial order mandating that Juul Labs Inc. cease the sale and distribution of all of their currently marketed products in the United States. The extraordinary Order also directs that all Juul products currently on the U.S.
On June 13, 2022, plaintiffs won a series of procedural victories in the kidney and bone injury lawsuit filed against pharma giant Gilead Sciences when California Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng denied three summary judgment motions filed by Gilead seeking to dismiss the litigation. Since the dangers from Gilead’s prescription medications (Truvada® and Atripla®) that
In a case focusing on Bausch & Lomb’s artificial in-eye lenses that can break inside patient’s eyes, causing vision that is equivalent to seeing the world through a kaleidoscope — at best — plaintiffs won a signal victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court when that authority held that the plaintiffs’ injury claims against Bausch &