Class Action & Mass Torts
CDC Budget Cuts: What They Mean for the World Trade Center Health Program
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EEOC Issues Annual Report, Faces Future in Flux
By: Ridhima Bhalla, Samantha Brooks, Andrew L. Scroggins, and Christopher J. DeGroff

On January 17, 2024, just days before the new presidential term began, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published its annual performance report for the preceding Fiscal Year 2024. The Report highlights a year filled with notable monetary recoveries, an overall…
Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners, Testing Constitutional Limits on Presidential Power Over Independent Agencies
By: Rachel V. See and Andrew L. Scroggins

Seyfarth Synopsis: On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 28, 2025, media reports confirmed that President Trump has fired EEOC Commissioners Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels, both Democratic appointees. Samuels confirmed her dismissal via her X (formerly Twitter) account. President Trump’s unprecedented move at the EEOC follows similar…
The FTC Issues Three New Orders Showing Its Increased 2024 Enforcement Activities Regarding AI And Adtech
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Justin R. Donoho Duane Morris Takeaways: On December 3, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an order in In Re Intellivision Technologies Corp., (FTC Dec. 3, 2024) prohibiting an AI software developer from making misrepresentations that its AI-powered facial recognition software was free from gender and racial bias,…
[Podcast] AI at Work – Training Data Issues

In part two of our insightful artificial intelligence series, partner Guy Brenner, who leads Proskauer’s D.C. Labor & Employment practice and is co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity Group, and Jonathan Slowik, senior counsel, Labor & Employment, in the firm’s Los Angeles office, explore the critical issue of AI training data…
Announcing A New Journal Article By Justin Donoho Of Duane Morris Explaining Best Practices To Mitigate High-Stakes AI Litigation Risk
By Justin Donoho Duane Morris Takeaway: Available now is the recent article in the Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law by Justin Donoho entitled “Three Best Practices to Mitigate High-Stakes AI Litigation Risk.” The article is available here and is a must-read for corporate counsel. Organizations using AI-based technologies that perform facial recognition or…
The implications of skyrocketing fraudulent claims in class action settlements

In recent years, parties entering into class settlements—largely at the urging of courts—have sought to boost the rate at which class members participate in those settlements by reducing gating requirements for submitting claims. In an increasing number of cases, claims are flooding in. But all too often, a meaningful percentage of those claims are fraudulent.…
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker Signs New Artificial Intelligence Law Focused On Employment Practices
By Tiffany E. Alberty, Alex W. Karasik, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., and Brandon Spurlock Duane Morris Takeaways: On August 9, 2024, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 3773, which amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to address an employer’s use of artificial intelligence in employment-related decisions such as recruitment, hiring, promotion, retention, and discipline…
Judge Makes Class Action Claims Against “Magic Avatar” AI App Disappear
On August 6, 2024, Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the Northern District of Illinois issued an order dismissing Brantley v. Prisma Labs, Inc., a proposed class action suit against the creator of the “Magic Avatar” AI app for lack of standing and lack of personal jurisdiction over the representative plaintiff Tyrone Brantley.…