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Ontario Superior Court Rejects Pre-Certification Discovery in Children’s Homes Class Action

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In Morrison v. Hatts Off Inc. et al., 2025 ONSC 4320, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declined to order pre-certification discovery of sensitive Children’s Aid Society records in a proposed class action alleging...more

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The Supreme Court - January 14, 2019

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On Friday, January 11, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the following eight cases: Fort Bend County v. Davis, No. 18-525: Whether Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement, 42...more

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2016 Year In Review: Securities Litigation And Regulation

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2016 was an active year in securities litigation. In the first half of 2016 alone, plaintiffs filed 119 new federal class action securities cases. It was also a busy year for SEC enforcement proceedings, with a record 868...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Wake-Up Call: Law Firms in the Cybersecurity Crosshairs

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Last week marked the first time a U.S. law firm was publicly named in a class action data security lawsuit. Originally filed in April 2016, the class action complaint in Shore v. Johnson & Bell, Ltd., 16-cv-4363 (N.D. Ill.),...more

Butler Snow LLP

Sixth Circuit Denies Seal of Approval for Unjustified Filings Under Seal

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Litigants and third parties subpoenaed to produce information in litigation who believe that information that they deem confidential will not ever become part of the public record so long as a discovery protective order is in...more

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Health Data Breach Victims Have Standing to Sue Says WV Supreme Court

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The most common defense against class actions for data breach has itself been breached in a ruling last week by the West Virginia Supreme Court....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Denied Again: Alleged Violation of Statute is Enough for Hulu Privacy Case to Proceed

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On December 20, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order in In re: Hulu Privacy Litigation that solely addressed the issue of whether the Video Privacy Protection Act (the “VPPA”)...more

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