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California Scheming: Gas Price Manipulation Hits the West Coast
The gas market, with its pricing benchmarks based on self-reported transactions, has long been a fertile field for price manipulation. For example, in In re Natural Gas Commodity Litigation, No. 03 CV 6186 (S.D.N.Y. Oct....
New Jersey & Pennsylvania Hot Spots Among Recent Data Breach Targets
Data breaches are occurring at an alarming frequency. For instance, the University of Maryland estimates that there are approximately 2,244 hacker attacks per day. In the first half of 2019 alone, researchers believe that...
The Table-Turning Rise of Mass Arbitration
Background Over the past decade, corporations have sought to avoid litigation by aggressively imposing arbitration clauses on consumers that remove their ability to seek redress in state or federal court. These...
When a Defendant’s Employee Takes the Fifth During a Deposition
Corporate civil defendants and their employees occasionally face criminal liability for the same conduct that forms the basis of the civil lawsuit against them. In such cases, plaintiffs’ counsel deposing defendants’...