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Judge grants final approval to $300 million class action settlement with vaping giant Juul

Altria, which owns 35% of Juul, agreed to pay a class of plaintiffs $45 million, on top of the $255 million Juul Labs agreed to pay earlier this year.

Boeing tells airlines to check pilot seats after report that an accidental shift led plane to plunge

Boeing is already facing scrutiny after a panel out of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max over Oregon in January.

Flush-wipe settlement

DALLAS — A federal court in Texas approved the $17.5 million settlement payment that Kimberly-Clark will pay to settle claims regarding contaminated Cottonelle flushable wipes, which were allegedly giving users infections and other irritations.

National Association of Realtors to pay $418 million to settle real estate agent commission lawsuits

The trade association faced multiple lawsuits over the way agent commissions are set.

Credit bureau docs

NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana granted a consumer’s request for the “audit trail” and other information in the credit bureau Trans Union’s file on her. She says the agency refused to remove a mistaken identity theft entry from her credit report. Trans Union “cannot avoid its discovery obligations by denying the existence of responsive information simply because it refers to that data by a different name.”

Arizona House to vote on labeling restrictions for synthetic meat products

The bill prohibits plant-based or lab-grown meat companies from intentionally misleading customers by advertising products using labels associated with beef or poultry.

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