Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant: How does this impact the trial?
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FILE - Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Federal Court on April 22, 2019 in San Jose, California. Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former COO Ramesh Balwani appeared in federal court for a status hearing. Both are facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood testing lab services.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes criminal fraud trial may be pushed back yet again.
Holmes is pregnant and due to deliver in July, according to her defense attorneys and prosecutors who asked the California federal court in a filing made Friday to delay the start of the trial scheduled that month to August 31, 2021, CNN reported.
Jonathan Shub for the plaintiff
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Shampoo made by Johnson & Johnson contains ingredients that cause hair loss and/or scalp irritation, a class action lawsuit says.
Three plaintiffs firms - Shub Law Firm, Sciolla Law Firm and Whitfield Bryson – teamed to sue the company March 5 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They say an ingredient known as DMDM hydantoin is known to slowly leach formaldehyde when coming into contact with water.
The product line at issue is OGX shampoos and conditioners.
“Defendant failed to properly warn consumers of the risks and dangers attendant to the use of such a strong ingredient on their hair and scalp – even well after Defendant knew or should have known of the Products’ hazards,” the complaint says.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Greenpeace’s lawsuit against it over whether its recyclable products actually benefit the environment fails on at least three fronts, Walmart is arguing.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Now that it has been established a lawsuit over the empty space in movie theater candy should be heard in federal court, Tootsie Roll Industries is asking a judge to toss the case.
The company on March 10 filed its motion to dismiss the lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, about a month after an appeals court refused to hear an appeal arguing it belonged in state court.
The lawsuit from the Clarkson Law Firm alleges there is too much air in boxes of Sugar Babies and Junior Mints – even though the boxes declare the weight of the food inside.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A class action lawsuit that S.C. Johnson & Son misled customers when it said its ecover cleaning products are made “with plant-based ingredients” fails to identify a single lie, the company argues.
S.C. Johnson filed a motion to dismiss March 3 in San Francisco federal court against the class action being pursued by the Clarkson Law Firm of Los Angeles and Moon Law in Palo Alto. In a January complaint, those firms targeted the ecover line – which includes laundry detergent, dishwasher tablets and toilet cleaner.
The suit claimed ingredients like coconut and palm oil are subjected to “substantial chemical modification and processing” that creates an entirely new, synthetically created ingredient.”