Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Three bellwether plaintiffs were set to have their day in court Tuesday. But late last week, two bellwether plaintiffs were among nearly 100 parties who settled their claims with the performer and venue operator. The trial for a third bellwether plaintiff will be rescheduled.
After deliberating for parts of two days, jurors in the court of U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman ordered Skiplagged Inc. to pay American Airlines $4.7 million in damages for copyright infringement, and another $4.7 million in disgorged profits.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Big Oil is denied its request to bring an early end to a climate suit in California, Marriott reaches a data breach settlement with all 50 states, and we bring you details of the $2.2 billion settlement GlaxoSmithKline reached to bring an end to thousands of Zantac lawsuits.
From the $663 million False Claims Act judgment against Trinity Industries in 2014 to this year's $1.4 billion settlement on behalf of the state of Texas against Facebook parent Meta, one name stands out: Truelove. Jennifer and Kurt Truelove have been involved in some of the biggest verdicts and settlements to come out of Marshall, the East Texas town famous for its patent litigation docket.
The testimony came on the second day of AA’s suit against an online site that promotes cheaper flights to users who book ‘hidden city’ tickets to destinations other than those at which they truly intend to arrive.
Arnold & Itkin and Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing are locked in a fight over whether AZA can continue representing Transocean in multidistrict litigation, or if an alleged conflict of interest and an alleged attempt to taint the jury pool mandate the firm’s disqualification. AZA argues there is no basis for disqualification.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, we’ve got updates in legal disputes involving hip hop and rap artists Cardi B and T.I., EOG Resources wins a $15.6 million verdict in a dispute with a Webb County ranch owner, and private equity firm Welsh Carson gets dismissed from an antitrust lawsuit.
In 13 days, Arnold & Itkin has filed two motions to disqualify Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing from representing Transocean in the multidistrict litigation stemming from alleged injuries suffered by offshore workers during 2020’s Hurricane Zeta. The most recent motion alleges a former law clerk for Arnold & Itkin “improperly took confidential and proprietary information” with her when she went to work for her current employer, AZA.
Texas lawyers from Latham & Watkins and Sidley Austin advised Vistra on the acquisition of the last 15 percent of Vistra Vision not already owned by Vistra. Vistra Vision owns and operates alternative energy facilities, including four nuclear plants.
A main point of contention in the briefing is whether the dispute centers on a bank loan — which would deprive the Fifteenth Court of Appeals of exclusive jurisdiction over the case under Texas Government Code section 25A.001(14) — or if it centers instead on a guaranty agreement. In the underlying case, parties on both sides of the dispute claim to have been the victims of a Ponzi scheme.
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