«Apple, Inc. (Apple) funded this credit to settle antitrust lawsuits brought by State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books (eBooks),» Amazon's email to Kindle customers reads.
According to the message from Amazon, «The credit results from legal settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin in antitrust lawsuits filed by State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of eBooks.
The eBook Settlement is the result of an antitrust lawsuit filed by the State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books («eBooks»).
Apple, Inc. (Apple) funded this credit to settle antitrust lawsuits brought by State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books (eBooks).
This credit results from the Settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin in antitrust lawsuits filed by the State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books («E-books»).
The credit results from the Settlements reached with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin in antitrust lawsuits filed by State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books.
The credit results from the Settlement reached with Apple Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit filed by State Attorneys General and
Class Plaintiffs about the price of electronic books.
Not exact matches
In his 68 - page finding, Chen was careful to note that saying the
plaintiffs constitute a
class — one that potentially now includes a majority of Uber's 160,000 U.S. - based drivers — doesn't say anything
about whether those
plaintiffs have justice on their side when it comes to the merit of their suit.
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I'll be talking more
about what those depositions revealed over the next few weeks, but if you would like to read the (lengthy) documents yourself, the
Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Support of their Motion for
Class Certification is here (PDF) and the deposition excerpts are here (PDF).
Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan and Penguin settled several antitrust lawsuits
about eBook prices that were brought by a coalition of state Attorneys General, and by a
Plaintiff Class.
The total settlement is now
about $ 3.75 million, with $ 3,500 each going to the five named
plaintiffs of the
class action lawsuit, up to $ 400,000 going to attorneys, and the rest to be distributed to eligible customers.
[1] If the settlement is in the best interests of the
class and the retainer agreement provided for, say, a one - third contingency fee, and was fully understood and agreed to by the representative
plaintiff, why should the court be concerned
about the time that was actually docketed?
I will start recommending More Perfect to them as a way to encourage them to think
about the
plaintiffs and defendants in the cases they read in my
classes and their other
classes.
David Assor, a Montreal lawyer who represented the
plaintiffs in the Danone
class action, agrees that other provinces are more strict
about requiring reliance on what is claimed on the label.
David Fish posts at
Plaintiffs» Lawyer Blog
about a
class action on behalf of restaurant owners to recover the cost of spinach they trashed in the wake of the recent e-coli outbreak.
Though contract lawyers are paid
about $ 35 to $ 40 an hour,
plaintiffs» firms «bill» this time to the
class at $ 300 an hour or more, sometimes without disclosing that work was not done by the firm's lawyers.
Interestingly enough, the Ontario Energy Board later ruled that Enbridge could raise its charges to recover the money it had to pay to the
class of
plaintiffs (
about $ 22 million, if I recall right.)
The
plaintiff sought an order from the court under section 12 of the
Class Proceedings Act, 1992 to restrict Loblaws from communicating with putative class members about the consumer card pro
Class Proceedings Act, 1992 to restrict Loblaws from communicating with putative
class members about the consumer card pro
class members
about the consumer card program.
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What's interesting
about the Johnny Boy ad is that it is an evolution of legal advertising and an example of an ad campaign designed to overcome a specific hurdle facing a practice area, which is how do
plaintiff law firms find people who are entitled to share in the spoils of the firm's investment in a
class action?
A
class action is litigated similarly to an individual action, except that the
plaintiff must file a motion asking the court to certify the
class, and there may be litigation
about which
plaintiff will be lead
plaintiff in the action.
In today's case, (Ari v. ICBC) a proposed
class action, the
Plaintiff sued ICBC alleging various improprieties arising from an employee improperly accessing «the personal information of
about 65 ICBC customers ``.
The leadership fight in the Flint water contamination cases has escalated, with co-lead counsel firing back against «false and misleading accusations» and at least one defendant in the case raising concerns
about the communications that all the lead
plaintiffs lawyers have had with prospective
class members.
The named
plaintiffs filed this putative nationwide
class action claiming that AT&T violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending text - message advertisements to its wireless customers
about upgrading their cellular telephones after AT&T acquired their former wireless provider.
A minority of courts say that a consumer
class action
plaintiff has standing to get injunctive relief to prevent false advertising even though — by virtue of bringing the suit — he must know
about the alleged deception and can't be harmed by it a second time.
«It's just not right societally,» he says, noting Weatherill's approach would put a damper on
class actions in opt - in jurisdictions since prospective
plaintiffs would have to both know
about and choose to participate in a matter elsewhere in order to have a chance at redressing an alleged wrong since the court may not allow the case to go ahead in their home province.
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«It's premature to say consumer protection
class actions are dead in British Columbia, but
plaintiffs» counsel are going to have to think
about how they craft them and when it's appropriate to get
class - wide damages — that's the stumbling block for them now,» says Reinertson.
Hagens Berman Updates Facebook Investors
About the Expanded
Class Period and Reminds Investors of the May 21, 2018 Lead
Plaintiff Deadline
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Evan Stark, a leading researcher, and scholar in the domestic violence field, and lead expert for the
plaintiff mothers in Nicholson v. Williams, a successful
class action suit, [note 7] states that «it has been known for some time that men are the overwhelming perpetrators where children are severely injured or killed, accounting for up to 80 % of severe injury and child fataility in some studies [citing a major Florida study]; and «that where men are present, they are far more likely than women to be the source of children's injuries;» and that «there is no debate
about who is the major source of child sexual abuse.»
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There was plenty of discussion
about the impact of marriage equality on capital gains exclusions and title insurance decisions, but the roughly 150 attendees at the half - day continuing education
class sponsored by the Cincinnati Area Board of REALTORS ® gained an even deeper understanding of the emotional meaning of the landmark decision when the lead
plaintiff in the case, Jim Obergefell, opened the session by sharing the personal journey that has turned him into a national civil rights hero for many.