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...McKinsey has paid almost $1bn in settlements since 2021 with plaintiffs, including US states and local governments, seeking compensation for the costs of dealing with an epidemic of addiction....
...In the case before the court, however, a Virginia resident who worked in Ohio and Virginia for Norfolk Southern Railway — then headquartered in Virginia — sued it for “negligent and reckless conduct” in...
.... . . with cleaning up the mess,” the plaintiffs allege....
...The case ended in 2017 with a $671mn settlement for about 3,500 plaintiffs....
...To win a preliminary injunction, the plaintiff must show that its case has an overall likelihood of success. The judge concluded that TikTok had done so....
...In that case, a Virginia jury eventually ruled against it in 2022 and levied a $2bn civil judgment that sent the company’s shares tumbling....
...Ruth Mason and Mitu Gulati both teach at the University of Virginia Law School....
...though any individual is saying, ‘hey, let’s keep women back’ — that’s not how it works,” said Martin Davidson, professor of business administration and global chief diversity officer at the University of Virginia...
...That’s easy: judgment for plaintiff! Why pay expensive lawyers to fight an inevitably losing battle?...
...Many analysts expect the court to side with the plaintiffs in some shape or form....
...Lee Buchheit is a professor (Hon), at the University of Edinburgh, and Mitu Gulati is professor of law at the University of Virginia....
...Lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s best-known accusers, filed the lawsuit in US federal court in Manhattan on Monday....
...“Plaintiff has concluded he now has no practical alternative but to do so,” the lawsuit said....
...The plaintiffs’ expert argues that fixing the problem could take 10 years and cost more than $480bn....
...In 1952, the case, along with others from Delaware, Washington DC, South Carolina and Virginia, came to the Supreme Court. Oliver Brown’s name headed the ticket for legal reasons....
...One comes from a group of states led by West Virginia and Oklahoma and the other is from Murray Energy, a coal company....
...“This theory actually strikes me as a cut above some of the stuff we [have previously seen] in terms of what overcharging might look like,” says Quinn Curtis, a University of Virginia law professor who co-authored...
...says Carl Tobias, law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia....
...In addition, BNY Mellon says, it has received favourable and noteworthy rulings in Virginia and California. In Virginia, the court dismissed the case against BNY Mellon....
...“To have a Chinese company buy a $7bn company in a small town in Virginia is culturally impactful,” says Mr Spatt....
...Jay Rockefeller, a senator from West Virginia, this year reintroduced an online privacy bill that failed to make it out of committee two years ago....
...“Transparency nearly always reduces popular support for public policies which produce rents for a favoured few,” says Roger Congleton, professor of economics at West Virginia university....
...Two other judges have rejected challenges to the individual mandate but a judge in Virginia struck down a central provision of the law in December....
...But the Reston, Virginia-based company is rapidly gaining a reputation for complexity, rather than simplification. Worth while, then, taking a look at this thing....
...In recent days, previous arguments in the Virginia case have been overshadowed by the extraordinary claims in two anonymous affidavits from US citizens who, on behalf of the plaintiffs, allege they saw crimes...
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