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The Top 10 legal news stories our readers were most interested in this week.

#1  Elmiron may no longer be Drug Companies’ Golden Goose
Santa Clara, CA In a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s perfect world, patients will take their drug indefinitely to treat an ailment.  What Elmiron drug makers don’t want is a cure. And they don’t want the public to know about adverse side effects, such as vision loss.

#2  Employee Stock Ownership Lawsuit Unmasks Brazen Corporate Fraud
Riverside, CA The allegations made in Gamino v. KPC Healthcare are pretty lurid, especially as ERISA lawsuits go. Even apart from the loaded handgun and the slashed tires, the Complaint tells a tale of shocking financial malfeasance.

#3  Supreme Court Blocks Teachers from Suing Church Schools for Job Discrimination
Los Angeles, CA The bad news for lay teachers is that on July 8, in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, the U.S. Supreme Court severely limited the rights of Catholic school elementary teachers to sue for employment discrimination under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Justice Sotomayor captured the stunned reaction in her dissent: “That cannot be right.”

#4  DoorDash Opens Litigation Door for Misclassification
San Frrancisco, CA DoorDash has been slammed with another California labor lawsuit filed by San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, claiming the food delivery service has misclassified its workers as independent contractors rather than employees. “Dashers” are entitled to workers compensation and other benefits allowed full-time workers.

#5  California Excessive Bank Overdraft Fee Lawsuit Gets Second Wind
San Diego, CA For months, the law firms that represent banks and other big businesses have worried that the Ninth Circuit’s 2019 decision in Blair v. Rent-A-Center shows plaintiffs how to side-step mandatory arbitration provisions that include class action waivers. Defense counsel’s worst fear is realized in the motion for reconsideration filed in McGovern v. U.S. Bank, a California bank overdraft fees lawsuit. 

#6  Are Tutors Independent Contractors or Employees Under the California Labor Code?
San Francisco, CA: The education company General Assembly agreed to pay $1million to settle an overtime lawsuit brought by two former full-time tutors ( education instructors) who taught at the company’s San Francisco campus. This California labor law settlement may have implications for similar companies that hire independent contractors to work in the education “gig economy.”

#7  Texas Employment Law: Don't Wait to Take Your PTO
Houston, TX Pete did his company a service by not taking Paid Time Off (PTO) in over four years of employment. Yesterday was his last day of work. He has accrued 150 hours of PTO, but Texas Employment law does not require that employers pay workers for earned but unused vacation upon termination, unless the employer has a written policy or past practice of doing so.

#8  Deadly Secrets – Did Allergan Hide Breast Implant Side Effects?
New Orleans, LA A breast implant side effects lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana may soon join the growing list of cases to be considered as part of the federal multidistrict litigation forming in New Jersey. Seuzeneau v. Allergan USA, Inc. charges that Allergan, which marketed, advertised and sold Biocell textured breast implants, failed to disclose the connection between the implants and BIA-ALCL, a rare form of cancer.

#9  Lisinopril Also Linked to Kidney Damage?
Eau Claire, WI Although Joanne knows that Lisinopril has been linked to liver damage, she can't help but wonder if this ACE inhibitor, which is used to control high blood pressure, could also be associated with kidney problems.

#10  New Lawsuits Describe Serious Paragard IUD Complications
East St. Louis, IL Paragard IUD defective medical device lawsuits are popping up in courts throughout the country. Huitt v. Teva Pharmaceuticals was filed in the Eastern District of California on May 11. Lewis v. Teva Pharmaceuticals was filed in the Southern District of New York on May 26, followed on July 30 by Harnish v. Teva Pharmaceuticals. Parker v. Teva Pharmaceuticals was filed in the Southern District of Illinois on May 28. This is in addition to roughly 20 Paragard IUD lawsuits now consolidated for multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

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Incoming! Top Leads for the Last 30 Days

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Santander Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Fair Debt Collection Practices	213
Illegal Towing Lawsuit News and Legal Information	93
Wrongful Self Storage Auctions	52
Home Warranty Insurance Claim Denied Lawsuit	51
Excessive Bank Overdraft Fees Lawsuit News & Legal Information	48
Capital One Excessive Overdraft Fees Lawsuit News & Legal Information	24
Neurontin Side Effects Lawsuit News and Legal Information	23
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