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Wall Street Breakfast

U.S. court rejects ‘forever chemicals’ class action

Wall Street Breakfast

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Business News, News, Business, Investing

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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U.S. court ruling rejects massive class action over 'forever chemicals'. (00:27) Fast-fashion firm Shein files for U.S. initial public offering - WSJ. (01:25) Saudi Arabia wants OPEC+ members to cut oil production quotas - Bloomberg. (02:29)

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0:00.0

Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:08.0

Good morning. Today is Tuesday, November 28th. I'm Julie Morgan. A US court rejects a class action lawsuit against several

0:16.1

companies over forever chemicals. Sheehan has filed for an IPO and Saudi Arabia wants other OPEC plus members to cut oil production quotas.

0:27.0

A circuit court of appeals on Monday vacated a lower court's ruling that would have allowed

0:32.3

nearly 12 million Ohio residents to sue companies,

0:36.0

including 3M, DuPont, and others in a class action lawsuit.

0:40.3

The lawsuit had to do with the manufacturing of toxic forever chemicals.

0:44.4

The court ruled that the lead plaintiff had filed too broad a complaint against the

0:49.2

manufacturers and had not shown the P-FAS substances found in his body could be traced directly to those companies.

0:57.0

The judge noted that there are thousands of companies that have manufactured P-FAS chemicals,

1:02.0

but only 10 were listed as defendants.

1:05.4

The appeals court instructed the lower court to dismiss the lawsuit, which had aimed to force

1:10.2

the companies to pay for studies analyzing the health impacts of the chemicals.

1:15.5

This lawsuit is among thousands that have been filed against 3M, DuPont, and other companies

1:20.8

in recent years over alleged P-FAS contamination.

1:25.0

Chinese Fast Fashion Giant Sheehan has confidentially filed for an initial public

1:30.4

offering in the U.S.

1:32.0

Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley have been hired as lead underwriters for the IPO,

1:39.0

which could happen next year, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Monday which cited people

1:44.4

familiar with the matter. The latest report comes after Bloomberg earlier this

1:48.8

month reported that Sheehan is looking to garner as much as a 90 billion dollar valuation when it eventually has its

1:55.7

IPO. The fashion company has told prospective investors that it's targeting a valuation of

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