The Federal Circuit has dealt Rambus a major setback, ruling in two cases that the technology licensing company improperly destroyed millions of pages of documents in advance of litigation, and sending the cases back to the lower courts.

A federal appeals court has vacated a $24 million settlement of a consumer class action filed in the wake of a massive recall of tainted pet foods after finding one evidentiary flaw in the lower court’s analysis of whether it was “fair and reasonable.”

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a nearly $95,000 sanction that Eastern District of New York Judge Denis R.

The 3rd Circuit has set aside a $295 million settlement of a class action antitrust suit alleging a price-fixing conspiracy in the international market for diamonds allegedly orchestrated by the De Beers group of companies headquartered in South Africa. The court ruled the settlement must be vacated because the lower court improperly certified a nationwide class of indirect purchasers despite recognizing that would bar some of those plaintiffs from pursuing such indirect claims under their own states’ laws.