In the firm's latest defense victory on behalf of a U.S.-listed China-based company facing unsubstantiated fraud allegations from short seller attacks, Loeb & Loeb LLP successfully obtained a dismissal of a federal class action complaint against Sino Clean Energy, Inc., a Chinese producer and distributor of coal water slurry fuel.

Although class actions have been common in the United States for decades, they have not been as widely used in the rest of the world. The situation and risks remain in flux, however, as more countries have renewed ...

"Related organizations" may be able to join class-action law suits where public health and/or public safety is at risk.

Lawsuits against listed companies and stock market intermediaries have surged in recent years in China against the backdrop of intensified...

On June 30, 2025, Proton AG, a Switzerland-based privacy software company, filed a class action lawsuit against Apple Inc. in the U.S. District Court...

As litigation becomes more sophisticated, this will likely lead to more and larger "class action" -type suits in China.

Many speculate that the Law will undergo a further draft before the New Environmental Protection Law enters into force.

On Friday, 31 July 2020, the Supreme People's Court of China ("SPC") held a press conference and released the Provisions on Issues of Representative Securities Litigation...

On July 27, 2021, China Supreme People's Court released the Provisions on Several Issues concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Cases Relating to the Use of Facial Recognition Technologies to Process Personal Information.

It is not yet possible to determine who is able to initiate class-action litigation under the third draft of amendments.

There could be a rise in public interest class action-type joint litigations in China in 2015 and in the years following.

In the United States, companies increasingly include arbitration clauses in contracts to mitigate the substantial legal risks posed by class action lawsuits. These clauses often explicitly prohibit collective arbitration...

在美国，制造商或销售商面临产品责任索赔与诉讼非常常见。制造商企业在美国自行销售产品后面临产品责任索赔与诉讼，或将产品销售给美国经

生成式人工智能产品（AIGC），一般是指利用生成式人工智能技术向用户提供生成文本...

"碰瓷式"集体诉讼并非美国法律体系中的正式术语，而是借用中文语境中"碰瓷"一词，形象地描述一种利用集体诉讼机制、针对企业某些潜在违规行

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