Feb 1, 2017


Exactly How and Why Zenimax Was Awarded $500M in Lawsuit Against Oculus

The years-long legal battle between Zenimax and Oculus drew to a close yesterday, as the court ruled in Zenimax’s favor after two days of deliberations. As a result, Zenimax is owed a total of $500 million for a variety of charges against Oculus, CTO John Carmack, and co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Now that the dust has had a chance to settle, a pair of legal experts sat down to …


Top U.S. Chicken Processors Face Lawsuit Over Farmer Pay

A group of U.S. chicken farmers sued the country’s biggest poultry processors, including Tyson Foods Inc, for allegedly conspiring to depress their pay, the latest accusation of improper collusion in the sector. Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride Co, Sanderson Farms Inc and other companies illegally agreed to share detailed data on grower pay with one another to keep …


Facebook Hit With More Than $500 Million in Damages in Oculus Lawsuit

Presenting a reality that’s probably not quite as virtual as they might possibly like, Facebook and its Oculus subsidiary have been hit with more than $500 million in damages in a lawsuit. According to Variety, a judge has ordered the companies to pay the damages to video game publisher ZeniMax Media, who successfully argued that Oculus executives broke their non-disclosure agreements with the …


Republican Legislators to Hire Private Attorneys in Redistricting Lawsuit

Republican legislative leaders have voted to hire private attorneys to appeal a court ruling that found Wisconsin’s legislative districts are unconstitutional. The GOP plan would hire the law firms Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Bell Giftos St. John LLC, “and any other firms, entities or counsel deemed necessary for services related to the matter of Whitford v. Gill and legislative redistricting and …



Class Actions Follow FTC Lawsuit Against Qualcomm

The Federal Trade Commission’s two-year probe of Qualcomm has led to the government filing suit against the California-based company, accusing executives of employing “onerous” tactics allowing it to “maintain a monopoly on baseband processors.” Since then, the semiconductor manufacturer has been slapped with at least two putative class action complaints filed …


Class Action Says Texting ‘Y’ Not Enough, AMC Needed to Get Written Consent Before Texting Customers

Cinema chain AMC has been hit with a class lawsuit claiming the theater company wrongly added people to marketing lists to send them text messages promoting upcoming movies and encouraging other purchases. On Feb. 1, plaintiff Caleb Baldwin, identified in the document only as a Cook County resident, filed suit in Chicago federal court, alleging Leawood, Kan.-based AMC violated the federal …


SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC Reminds Investors of Class Action Against Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) and Lead Plaintiff Deadline – March 13, 2017

Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC reminds investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Novo Nordisk A/S (“Novo” or the “Company”) (NYSE:NVO) and certain of its officers, and is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who purchased Novo American Depositary Receipts (“ADR”) between April 30, 2015 and October …


Snapchat Paid Reggie Brown $157.5M to Settle His ‘ousted Founder’ lawsuit

Ousted Snapchat early employee Reggie Brown was paid $157.5 million in a settlement in September 2014 to close off a 2013 lawsuit he had brought against other co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, alleging that they had taken his original idea and run with it, pushing him out of the company without compensation in the process. The details were made public for the first time in Snapchat’s …