Power Cable Cartel
The European General Court confirmed $350 million in antitrust fines Thursday against the main European and Asian producers of high-voltage power cables.
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Shareholder Class Action
In a federal class action, shareholders say directors are selling Abaxis (medical devices) too cheaply through an unfair process to Zoetis, for $83 a share or $2 billion.
Read moreNutribullet
A woman claims in a federal complaint that a defectively designed Nutribullet high-speed blender virtually exploded as she used it, burning and scarring her.
Read moreHome Depot Sues Drywall Suppliers Over Alleged Price-Fixing
Home Depot claims in court the nation’s largest suppliers of drywall are engaged in a conspiracy to artificially inflate prices and prevent competition inside the $3 billion industry.
Read moreTexas Judge Rules for Workers Hurt in Weekend Blast
Ten workers injured Saturday in a fiery explosion at a suburban Houston plastics plant won a temporary restraining order Monday forcing the plant owner not to tamper with a valve suspected of setting off the blast.
Read moreAsbestos Liability Case Picked Up by Supreme Court
Taking up an asbestos case this morning, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve whether military widows can hold companies liable under maritime law for products that they did not make, sell or distribute.
Read moreIndustries Fight Yakama Nation’s Demand to Clean Up More Fish Habitat
Lawyers for oil, gas and steel companies told a judge Friday that they shouldn’t have to pay the Yakama Nation for its efforts to clean up pollution that has migrated beyond the bounds of a federally recognized Superfund site where the Willamette River winds through the center of the city.
Read moreSecond Circuit Raps Novelis, NLRB in Labor Dispute
After an upstate New York steel plant violated labor laws by discouraging unionization, federal authorities went too far in trying to remedy the violations with a bargaining order, the Second Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreTrump Blocks Tech Company Merger Citing National Security
President Donald Trump thwarted a deal between two computer chip manufacturers citing national security concerns.
Read moreEU Primed to Nix Dyson’s Vacuum-Cleaner Challenge
A magistrate with Europe’s highest court recommended defeat Thursday for Dyson, which brought a challenge in Belgium to how one vacuum-cleaner competitor discloses energy efficiency to customers.
Read moreEU Fires Back in Trade Spat With Squeeze on US Juice, Whiskey
Threatened import restrictions of aluminum and steel by Washington has led the European Union to include orange juice and Kentucky bourbon as U.S. products it would target in reaction, German media reported.
Read moreHousehold Products Now Equal to Cars in Production of Smog
Household cleaners, paints, perfumes and other chemical products that feature compounds refined from petroleum now contribute about as much to urban air pollution as vehicle emissions, a new study finds.
Read moreMedtronic Fails to Quash Claims Over Teen’s Diabetic Shock
A federal judge advanced claims Monday by a couple whose daughter has been in a persistent vegetative state for the last decade after going into diabetic shock.
Read moreLong Islanders Issue Call to Arms on ‘Radioactive Plume’
Long Island is on the brink of “environmental catastrophe,” residents claim in a federal complaint, accusing New York and U.S. authorities of letting radioactive waste spread in the groundwater.
Read morePrius Class Action
A class claims in Los Angeles Superior Court that Toyota’s 2010-16 Prius Hybrids have defective inverter assemblies that can cause the cars to stall at high speeds.
Read moreGermany Probes Bosch Workers in US Over Diesel Emissions
Prosecutors in the German city of Stuttgart are investigating two employees of auto components and technology firm Robert Bosch LLC in the U.S. on suspicion of being accessories to fraud in connection with manipulated diesel emissions in Fiat Chrysler vehicles.
Read moreSouth Korea Hits Back at US Tariffs in WTO Challenge
South Korea filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization on Thursday, challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to levy steep new tariffs on imported solar cells and washing machines.
Read moreTrump Imposes New Tariffs on Solar Products, Washing Machines
President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on imported solar-energy components and large washing machines Tuesday, saying he was levying the steep duties to “protect American jobs and American workers.”
Read moreItalian Prosecutors Break Up Chinese Transport Mafia
Italian law enforcement has broken up a Chinese organized crime ring that used money from criminal activities to force its way into European trucking companies and control the movement of Chinese-made goods in much of Europe, anti-Mafia prosecutors said Thursday.
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