Pins matching tag:Lawsuit

Lululemon filed a trade-dress, design-patent and trademark suit in Los Angeles federal court accusing Costco of selling knockoffs of its Scuba hoodies, Define jackets and ABC pants, including a Kirkland-brand pant and Danskin, Jockey, Spyder and Hi-Tec tops.

Chief Judge Beth Phillips combined 17 patient class actions against Cerner, doing business as Oracle Health, into In re: Cerner/Oracle Data Breach Litigation.

Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison in Los Angeles federal court, alleging its equipment sparked the Eaton Fire and seeking more than $40 million for fighting it and restoring 8,000 acres of Angeles National Forest.

A federal magistrate judge fined the plaintiff's lawyer in the Vuori overtime suit and struck his settlement motion after it cited a nonexistent case and eight made-up quotations, sinking a $1.1 million class deal.

City Attorney David Chiu filed the first government lawsuit against ultra-processed food makers, accusing Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé USA and six others of engineering addictive products they knew made people sick.

A federal magistrate judge combined 33 class actions over the Cl0p theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data into In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation.

Vuori filed a trademark suit in Miami federal court against the anonymous owners of 24 look-alike web shops such as vuoriclothing-outlets.shop and vuoriactivewear.com, seeking to freeze and seize them.

Lululemon USA sued the United States in the Court of International Trade for a full refund, with interest, of the emergency-powers tariffs it paid on imports, weeks before the Supreme Court struck them down.

Mayeli Ho and Katie Felix sued Vuori in San Diego federal court, alleging it miscalculated overtime premiums, the claim at the heart of the Northern District case dismissed a day earlier.

A proposed class action in Manhattan says Oracle hid that it needed to borrow heavily again for AI data centers when it sold $18 billion of notes and bonds.

Barrows v. Oracle says Oracle misled investors that its AI data-center spending for OpenAI would quickly turn into revenue, covering stock bought June-December 2025.

Florida shopper Alix Widmia sued Nike in federal court in Portland on 4 March 2026 on behalf of everyone whose data was exposed in the breach Nike found on 21 January, accusing it of lax security and of waiting until 25 February to warn customers.

A week into the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly trial in Manhattan, the Justice Department filed a signed settlement that caps ticketing fees at 15%, opens Live Nation events to rival ticket sellers and drops 13 exclusive amphitheatre deals - without breaking up Ticketmaster.

Vuori filed suit at the US Court of International Trade over the emergency tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February 2026, joining the importers seeking refunds; the court stayed it under its IEEPA procedure.

A Manhattan federal judge ruled Nike's warp-knitted shoe upper patent invalid as obvious and wiped out the $355,450 jury award against Lululemon's Blissfeel and Chargefeel sneakers.

A Manhattan federal judge partly denied Lululemon's motion to dismiss a shareholder class action over its 2023-24 statements, finding plausible claims of misleading statements and scienter, citing alleged insider trading.

A federal magistrate judge in Oregon on 30 April 2026 consolidated the Widmia and Gomez class actions over Nike's January 2026 data breach and appointed interim co-lead class counsel; Nike moved to dismiss the consolidated complaint on 17 July.

Abbott agreed with three law firms to pay about $670 million to settle the Gill case, a $495 million St. Louis jury award, and NEC claims for about 2,000 other preterm infants fed its specialty formulas. About 1,700 lawsuits covering some 12,700 infants remain.

A plumbers' pension fund filed a securities class action in Pittsburgh federal court accusing Dick's Sporting Goods and its leaders of hiding that Foot Locker was still saddled with stagnant legacy sneakers, before a 30.7% one-day share drop.

Universal Music Group and Capitol Records sued the distributor DistroKid in Delaware federal court, accusing it of flooding Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube with AI-generated tracks and unlicensed copies of their recordings while posing as an artist-first service.

New Balance sued Decathlon in Boston federal court, saying the logo on its Kiprun running shoes, a 'K' that becomes an 'N' when mirrored on the other side of the shoe, is virtually identical to New Balance's famous 'N'.

Nike and Lululemon stipulated to dismiss, with prejudice, Nike's 2022 suit claiming Lululemon's Mirror home gym infringed its fitness-tech patents, after the patent office struck down most of the asserted claims.

Universal Music Group and Sony Music filed a second copyright suit against AI music generator Suno in Boston federal court, alleging its licensed-music v6 model was trained on users' interactions with earlier models built on their recordings, 'laundering' the infringement.

Crocs and its Jibbitz charm unit sued discount chain Five Below in Denver federal court, alleging its clogs copy the Crocs Classic Clog's registered 3D trade dress and a design patent, and that its shoe charms infringe three Jibbitz utility patents.

Emirates Global Aluminium (60%) and Century Aluminum (40%) plan a 750,000 tonne-per-year smelter at the Port of Inola, Oklahoma, drawing more than 1,000 MW of continuous grid power from PSO under a contract still being negotiated; the 4 billion USD project faces an Oklahoma Attorney General nuisance suit.

The first test trial in the mass lawsuit against Southern California Edison over the Eaton Fire, with eight plaintiffs, opens before Judge Laura Seigle in Los Angeles Superior Court.