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20 Aug 2019, 6:16 pm
Alison Frankel’s August 19, 2019 post on her On the Case blog discussing the Oracle derivative lawsuit and the SLC’s letter to the court can be found here. [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 2:02 am
In what the plaintiffs’ lawyers claim to be the largest derivative lawsuit settlement ever, the parties to the News Corp. shareholder derivative litigation have agreed to settle the consolidated cases for $139 million. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 1:16 am
In a November 27, 2013 post on her On the Case blog (here), Alison Frankel takes a detailed look at the Affiliated Ute case. [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 10:03 pm
About the Ruling in the Consolidated Libor-Scandal Antitrust Litigation: Readers interested in Judge Buchwald's opinion in the consolidated Libor-scandal antitrust litigation (about which refe here), and who are wondering what remains after the recent rulings and what the implications may be for the other Libor-related lawsuits will want to review Alison Frankel's April 1, 2013 post on her On the Case bliog (here). [read post]
20 Sep 2013, 1:56 am
As Alison Frankel put it on her blog post, “I suspect that future SEC defendants are going to look the JP Morgan settlement as a model for how to quench regulators’ thirst for blood without spilling a drop in parallel shareholder litigation. [read post]
23 Aug 2015, 5:15 pm
As Alison Frankel discusses in an interesting August 19, 2015 post on her On the Case blog (here), while the U.S. lawsuit is interesting, the action worth watching is in the U.K. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 4:18 am
As Alison Frankel details in her March 10, 2015 post on her On the Case blog (here), “the study’s findings are unequivocal: Class actions deliver cash relief to vastly more consumers – especially those with small dollar claims – than individual arbitration. [read post]
9 Oct 2016, 2:54 pm
Does the court’s ruling, as Alison Frankel suggests in her blog post, “breathe some life into champerty law as it applies to litigation funding deals” in Pennsylvania? [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 1:48 pm
As Alison Frankel put it in an April 19, 2023 post on her On the Case blog entitled “Fox Shareholders are Circling Rupert Murdoch” (here), the settlement “gave shareholder lawyers exactly what they need to sue Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the Fox Board” because it provides “tangible evidence of the consequences of Fox’s reporting on election fraud claims. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 1:21 am
Under the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine, corporate officials can be held liable for misconduct in which they did not participate and of which they have been entirely unaware, based on their responsibility for the corporation itself. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 8:38 pm
” As Alison Frankel observed in her blog post, “Big businesses have been complaining for years that these laws give plaintiffs and their lawyers an unfair advantage because they can assert statutory damages claims for hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of thousands of consumers who suffered no concrete harm. [read post]
12 May 2015, 10:57 am
Frankel, Francine R. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 9:20 pm
Alison Frankel has a good summary of the complaint and its allegations in her February 5, 2013 post on her On the Case blog (here). [read post]
5 Nov 2012, 12:47 am
As Alison Frankel discusses in her On the Case blog (here), the accounting firms are likely to raise the in pari delicto defense, “which holds that one wrongdoer can't sue another for the proceeds of their joint misconduct” The FDIC has anticipated this defense in its complaint, alleging that the two bank employees that facilitated the Taylor Bean fraud were “rogue employees” who acted our of their own self-interest and not at the direction of or to the… [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 10:43 pm
Alison Frankel has an interesting column on this topic on her On the Case blog (here). [read post]
26 Apr 2019, 3:59 am
Alison Frankel discusses the “DIG” at Reuters’ On the Case blog. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 7:07 pm
As far as I can tell, the coverage of this flap is highly critical of Louis Vuitton for sending the demand letter in the first place, and entirely in favor of the University’s final decision to not cease use; for some examples of the coverage, see Techdirt, Above the Law, Law of Fashion, Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, Johanna Blakely, and Alison Frankel’s ON THE CASE. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 4:23 am
” At Reuters’ On the Case blog, Alison Frankel notes that “[t]he pharmaceutical industry … got a jolt of good news Monday [when] the justices askedthe U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on Merck’s petition for Supreme Court review of a [lower-court] ruling … that makes it ‘virtually impossible,’ in Merck’s words, for drug companies to win dismissal of personal injury suits by citing the Food and Drug… [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 6:21 am
Alison Frankel of Reuters examines Knowles and notes that “the case could be the Supreme Court’s opportunity to clamp down on the tactics of plaintiffs’ lawyers to evade CAFA [the Class Action Fairness Act] —or a means of undermining tort reformers’ favorite federal law. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 3:01 pm
Update: Alison Frankel discusses the case and the fee calculation at some length, before noting that: Strine's ruling comes with a very particular context. [read post]
