Articles from Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
On September 23, 2026, the national plaintiffs law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and the Memphis firm Greer Injury Lawyers filed a federal class action lawsuit in Tennessee on behalf of southern Memphis residents impacted by the massive hyperscale data centers that Elon Musk’s xAI company built to power its supercomputers and chatbot. Residents allege that the loud and polluting data centers, and the gas-turbine power plant that fuels them, have interfered with their ability to use and enjoy their properties, diminished their property values, and deposited dust, ash, and other particulate matter onto their properties.
By Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP · Via Business Wire · September 23, 2026

On June 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Burgess Law Offices filed an eight-count complaint against SpaceX and Elon Musk on behalf of eight SpaceX employees who submitted an open letter to SpaceX management challenging the illegal hostile work environment endemic to the company. After transmitting their letter to SpaceX management, these employees were summarily terminated for daring to seek changes to simply align the workplace culture with state and federal law. The complaint alleges that Musk personally ordered the Plaintiffs’ terminations.
By Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP · Via Business Wire · June 12, 2024

A gender class action lawsuit against Goldman Sachs pending since 2010 is finally headed to a federal trial in New York, while a set of previously sealed claims against the bank has been made public.
By Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP · Via Business Wire · September 22, 2022

On June 14, 2022, the law firms of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Shavitz Law Group, P.A. filed a lawsuit in the Central District of California on behalf of plaintiff Sales Associates and Sales Representatives against Stryker Corporation, a medical technologies corporation, for failure to pay overtime wages, provide mandated meal and rest breaks, and reimburse business expenses, as well as other unlawful and/or unfair business practices under federal and California law. The lawsuit alleges that Stryker Sales Associates and Sales Representatives (collectively, “Sales Associates”) were misclassified as exempt from overtime compensation during their extensive, mandatory training period and were required to work more than 40 hours per week without overtime pay in violation of state and federal law. In addition, Stryker failed to pay the plaintiffs other wages and compensation owed under state laws.
By Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP · Via Business Wire · June 15, 2022