The Pilgrim’s settlement is just one part of the multidistrict litigation that kicked off in 2016 with food service distributer Maplevale Farms suing poultry farms and chicken product producers over purported price fixing of “broiler chickens” — a chicken bred to gain lots of weight very fast.
Over the years, several bulk purchasers of the broiler chicken product like Walmart, Kraft Heinz and Nestle joined the suit and the case ballooned with over 100 associated lawsuits and more than 7,400 filings.
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FYI everyone! USPS has recently changed postmarking. Mail will now be postmarked when it's processed, not when it's dropped off. This will be important when mailing taxes, ballots, etc. If you need something postmarked the day of drop off, make sure you take it to the counter and request a postmark.
In its capacity as executor to a deceased woman, a bank filed suit against the maker of ChatGPT on Thursday, saying the artificial intelligence was responsible for inducing a mentally unstable son to kill his elderly mother and then die by suicide.
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California in 2026 will become the first U.S. state to require its attorneys to take an annual civility oath to “conduct themselves with dignity, courtesy, and integrity” — the latest attempt to rein in obnoxious lawyers.
Pugnacious and sharp-elbowed attorneys make for compelling movies and television, but off the screen academics and judges say incivility is contributing to high rates of anxiety and depression among lawyers, exacerbating the public’s low opinion of them and eroding trust in the justice system.
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It took a ruling from one of the country’s top business courts last week to settle a years-long dispute between a former Delaware couple: Who gets to keep Tucker, the pair’s adorable goldendoodle, after their breakup?
On Friday, a judge in Delaware Chancery Court came up with a novel solution. She ordered Karen Callahan and Joseph Nelson, who dated and cared for Tucker together for several years before splitting up in 2022, to bid against each other in a private auction for their 5-year-old dog.
The winner gets Tucker. The loser gets the money.
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Google said the messages are part of a criminal network called "Lighthouse." The texts look legitimate, often warning recipients of a "stuck package" or an "unpaid toll," but they're actually phishing or what's called smishing — a type of phishing scam that uses text messages to try to trick recipients into revealing personal and sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card numbers, which are then stolen.
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