Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation Update. On July 23, 2018, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, Larson King, LLP, and Barrett Law Group, P.A. announced a new proposed settlement for Automobile Dealerships. Read Press Release

The American Small Business League (ASBL) has won release of all substantive information contained in the 2013 Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation small business subcontracting plan (plan) filed with the Department of Defense (DOD), after a 4 ½ year Freedom of Information Act battle. Most of the plan was released November 10, 2017, with the remaining substantive [...]

Lex Machina’s “2018 Top Law Firm Report” identified Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP as the second busiest plaintiff-side antitrust firm in the nation from January 2013 through December 2017.  The study used data from U.S. district court cases, which were categorized into practice areas such as patent, trademark, copyright, securities, employment, product liability, and antitrust, [...]

This case concerns allegations that the Samsung Gear S Smartwatch does not live up to Samsung’s assertions concerning battery life.  Samsung claimed that the Smartwatch would last 1-2 days on a single charge.  In reality, Plaintiff Noble, and many other consumers, experienced battery life of just four hours or less.  Because the Gear S was [...]

This case concerns allegations of false advertising, hair loss, and scalp irritation for those that use MONAT Haircare Products.  The Products are sold through a multi-level marketing scheme that touts them as both safe and natural.  In point of fact, the Products are neither safe or natural.  Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, along with our co-counsel [...]

On Friday, February 5, 2018, Judge Madeline Cox Arleo issued an order upholding four of six counts in Noble v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (Samsung Gear S Watch Batteries). This first-of-its-kind litigation challenges Samsung's battery life assertions for the Gear S smartwatch.  Judge Arleo’s decision follows a long and unsuccessful appeal by Samsung which sought to [...]

DOJ & Sikorsky update. On January 23, 2018, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco denied, in principal part, a motion for summary judgment filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) & Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Sikorsky) in the four-year-long Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation concerning Sikorsky’s small business subcontracting plan.   The Court ruled [...]

WEN: Settlement Final On December 29, 2017, the final two appeals were dismissed and the Settlement became final.  Checks were mailed to all Tier 1 claimants by January 12, 2018.  WEN settlement checks will be mailed to all Tier 2 claimants on or before March 9, 2018.

Pamela Gilbert comments on the pace of regulatory activity in the Trump administration in Bloomberg Government. Read Article