Sentences with phrase «class action settlement which»

In Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General), Saskatchewan Queen's Bench Justice Neil Gabrielson found the firm billed the government too much for work related to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, a country - wide class action settlement which was approved about 10 years ago.

Among other developments, back in 2008 there was a GM Instrument Cluster Class Action Settlement which was applicable to your make and model year, as well as applicable to many other GM...

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A class action status would increase the drivers» leverage to demand a settlement, which is what happens in many cases when a court certifies class status.

By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz and Richard Spoor Attorneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, on Thursday reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.

A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn gave preliminary approval to a class - action settlement in which the city agreed to pay a total of $ 5 million to 470 people who were put in solitary confinement on Rikers Island under a now - scuttled policy between Nov. 23, 2012, and Sept. 16, 2015.

A federal court has preliminarily approved a class action lawsuit settlement that will provide a $ 20 cash payment or 50 % - off savings voucher to consumers who purchased Procera AVH, which the Plaintiffs allege was falsely advertised as helping to improve brain function.

Today, Sony agreed to whooping $ 15 million preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit over the PlayStation Network outage and Data Breach of 2011, which lead to leak of personal information belonging to 77 Million subscribers.

And who can forget the announcement two weeks ago that Microsoft was joining Amazon, Yahoo and others in opposing Google's recent court settlement of a class - action suit which clears the way for Google to offer millions of titles through its Google Book Service?

Now, thanks to that investigation, the original class action suit which sought to return some of the $ 250 million that some estimates claim consumers overpaid may fall by the wayside as three of the publishers involved are working to reach a settlement with all fifty individual state governments.

All 50 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may reach a settlement with HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette, which would effectively trump the class - action suit.

Plaintiff brings this action on behalf of himself and a Class consisting of all persons in the United States who established an account with NoteWorld LLC (or any subsidiary thereof) from which NoteWorld processed any payments related to any debt settlement program.

He is the leader of Siskinds» securities class actions team which, in 2010, recovered more settlement money for plaintiffs in securities class actions than any other law firm in Canada.

Justice Belobaba concludes that a $ 9.4 million fee in a $ 28.2 million class action settlement is not «unseemly», and that the predictability of a one - third contingency fee (which in turn should increase class actions and therefore improve access to justice) is the more laudable goal.

a class action in which a motion for approval of an amended settlement to replace the original settlement was rejected because the court held that the amended settlement was unfair, even if better than the original.

His settlement of a class action against Cardtronics, which provides for tens of thousands of voice - guided ATMs, constituted a major step toward making this ubiquitous convenience accessible to the blind.

The settlement agreement, which needs to be approved in court, will end multidistrict class action litigation against the Indianapolis - based company.

Obtained dismissal in federal district court of several causes of action, which led to an innovative nationwide settlement of a RICO class action against a building products manufacturer.

The IAP is the mechanism through which people who suffered serious physical, sexual, or psychological abuse at residential schools can apply for additional compensation on top of the base class action settlement.

Welland Tribune http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2013/02/12/legal-fees-out-of-control Feb 12, 2013 — There's also a report of a proposed class action against a Toronto personal injury lawyer following a settlement of $ 150,000 which generated a legal bill of $ 110,000 ($ 60,000 for fees and $ 50,000 for expenses).

In 1994, the Castano class action was the first class action litigation filed against the tobacco industry, which eventually resulted in the historic $ 196 Billion settlement with the tobacco industry.

Strathy, J. approved the proposed settlement of the action for $ 11 million, of which $ 7.75 million was designated for class members, and the balance for fees and disbursements of class counsel and for the costs of administration of the settlement.

We also filed Petition 15 - 06, which the Wisconsin Supreme Court granted, amending the rule governing state class actions and directing 50 % of unclaimed class action settlement funds to the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation to support civil legal aid.

Unlike the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eigSettlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eigsettlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eight years).

She also served as lead counsel in a class action against the Georgia Farm Bureau regarding insurance coverage, which resulted in an $ 18 million settlement.

We also have established productive working relationships with the plaintiffs» class action bar, which pay dividends in terms of limiting discovery and other litigation disputes, as well as at the settlement table.

Settlement of civil claims can also carry risks for a company under investigation, in particular class action settlements, which are public.

It has its origins in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (the «Settlement») which resolved the class actions against the federal government arising from residential schools.

In addition, she litigated a class action in the Southern District of New York arising out of a catastrophic fire on a Ski Train in Kaprun, Austria which resulted in a $ 16.5 settlement.

The Association of New Jersey Chiropractors, which initiated the earlier DOBI proceeding, had earlier released a statement calling the settlement a «victory for chiropractors,» and «thank [ed] class action counsel for their diligence and excellent legal work in prosecuting this class action on behalf of New Jersey Chiropractors for the past five years.»

In our October 22, 2010 post, we reported on the New York Court of Appeals» decision in Flemming v. Barnwell Nursing, which denied awarding attorney's fees to a class action settlement objector whose efforts helped reduce requested class counsel fees of $ 448,000 down to $ 425,000 in a $ 950,000 settlement.

The Supreme Court has agreed to review Frank v. Gaos, a case in which Ted Frank is objecting to a Google class action settlement.

Chief Justice Lyn Stuart authored the court's 41 - page ruling, which vacated an order entered by a trial court awarding class counsel a fee of $ 124 million for their work on a $ 310 million class action settlement.

Our experience includes representing Cephalon in a prominent action brought by the FTC in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and in separate antitrust actions by putative classes of direct and indirect purchasers of Provigil ®, as well as by a would - be generic competitor, all of which challenged Cephalon's settlement of Hatch - Waxman patent litigation.

One of his most famous settlements came during the hepatitis C class action, which settled for $ 850 million.

Two new issues, related but readily distinguishable, have arisen in the past few months, about the residential school experience, neither of which were public knowledge at the time of the apology and certainly not at the times of the out - of - court settlement that was negotiated against a class action law suit brought against the Government and the churches.

Will there ever come a day when class - action lawyers have exhausted every last nook and cranny into which they can worm themselves in order to extract cost - of - litigation settlements?

The article provides «a list of issues which often seem to pose problems when counsel file motions for preliminary approval of [class action] settlements.»

The borrower brought a class - action lawsuit against Countrywide, claiming that its captive reinsurance arrangement amounted to a disguised kickback, which would violate the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

Still to come: Settlement of several dozen class action suits filed on behalf of common share holders, which will most likely be consolidated into a single court action.