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Powered By An Added 18M Cases, Lex Machina’s New ‘Litigation Footprint’ Visually Maps Parties’ Litigation Historys

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Called Litigation Footprint, it provides a visual overview of the federal and state courts across the country in which a party has litigated, derived from the litigation histories of parties in over 27 million cases filed in 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts in 34 states and the District of Columbia.

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DC Attorney General adds Mark Zuckerberg as defendant in Facebook privacy lawsuit

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District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday announced the addition of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant to an existing lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the data firm harvested information from as many as 87 million individuals without their knowledge.

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District of Columbia, Mayor Sued Over School Mask Mandate

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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) recently sued the city of Washington D.C. and the mayor over the school mask mandate.

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Chrysler Owners Win Cert. Of 6M Class In Takata Airbag MDL

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A Florida federal judge has certified a class of roughly 6 million Fiat Chrysler vehicle owners in 11 states and the District of Columbia who assert fraud claims against FCA US in sprawling multidistrict litigation accusing automakers of hiding the risks associated with allegedly explosive Takata airbags in their vehicles.

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Federal appeals court rejects lawyer’s petition to view classified Guantanamo military commission hearing

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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Department of Defense (DOD) lawyer’s petition to view a hearing for convicted terrorist Ibrahim al Qosi Tuesday.

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International tech litigation reaches the next level: collective actions against TikTok and Google

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Just last December, Google reached a settlement in a multidistrict litigation involving all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The settlement addressed issues very similar to those raised in this case, as explicitly outlined in the agreement.

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Federal Judge Vacates CDC Eviction Moratorium Nationwide

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Late last week a federal district court judge for the District of Columbia held that the nationwide eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) went beyond the agency’s statutory authority and vacated it nationwide. by Zachary Kessler , Amanda G. Halter and Adam Weaver.