Lieff Cabraser, with co-counsel, represented a whistleblower whose allegations that Raytheon failed to comply with mandatory cybersecurity requirements in Department of Defense contracts and subcontracts led to an $8.4 million settlement with the federal government.
As reported by Law360 (subscription), on April 14, 2025, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila of the Northern District of California granted final approval to a $32 million settlement resolving nearly five years of litigation in the Telescope Antitrust Monopoly & Price-Fixing case. The lawsuit, brought by Lieff Cabraser and
As reported by Law360 (subscription), the consolidated class litigation relating to last year’s Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio took a significant step forward earlier this week when Judge Benita Y. Pearson of the Northern District of Ohio granted provisional approval to the proposed $600 million settlement between the railroad company
As reported by CBS News, Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million to resolve the class action litigation brought by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel on behalf of local residents over the February 3, 2023 derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, a small, rural community in northeast Ohio. The tragedy made national news last year
On March 14, 2024, U.S. District Judge William Orrick of the Northern District of California issued an order granting final approval to a comprehensive $235 million settlement with Altria in the nationwide JUUL e-cigarette youth vaping predatory advertising, fraud, addiction and injury litigation. Unprecedented in scope, speed, and significance, the global settlement, reached just after plaintiffs concluded
Litigation to date has recovered more than $50 billion for communities nationwide to address and abate opioid epidemic June 8, 2023 – An additional $18.75 billion will now be provided to communities nationwide to directly address the opioid epidemic, as a vast majority of state and local governments confirmed participation in global settlements that resolve
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, on October 25, 2022, California Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng granted final approval to a $118 million settlement of multidistrict litigation brought on behalf of a class of over 15,000 female Google workers accusing the tech giant of engaging in systemic and pervasive pay and promotion discrimination against its female
As reported by Law360, on October 21, 2022, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California announced that he plans to issue an order granting final approval to an $80 million settlement resolving driver claims in an emissions cheating class action filed by Lieff Cabraser against Volkswagen and Porsche. The lawsuit alleges
On September 20, 2022, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the Central District of California granted final approval to a $230 million settlement of the long-running Plains Oil Spill lawsuit filed by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel arising from an oil spill off Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County