Sentences with phrase «as a class action»

A federal appellate court has evaluated whether a lawsuit involving a transaction fee that a brokerage firm charged to its clients could be certified as a class action lawsuit.

We have demonstrated results in both individual claims for damages as well as class actions in professional liability litigation.

The Certification Motion: Before the plaintiff can proceed any farther with the class action, it is first necessary to get the court's approval of the case as a class action.

Employment - related claims, particularly in the wage - and - hour area, are increasingly being brought as class actions or collective actions.

Once posted, a class action proceeding will remain on the database unless dismissed as a class action by the court.

The Court of Appeal's decision confirms that strata owners can pursue strata - related claims as a class action.

However, the court also ruled that the case could not be filed as a class action.

That legal similarity should be enough for the case to move forward as a class action, plaintiff attorneys said.

Without threshold criteria for determining whether a case should be tried as a class action, there is no guarantee that a class action will solve the issues at stake.

Once posted, a class action proceeding will remain on the database unless and until it is dismissed as a class action by the court.

Lawyers for Author Solutions have said that a lawsuit against the company should not be allowed to progress as a class action.

The certification decision means only that the claim may continue as a class action.

The case was certified as a class action with leave to appeal the certification decision dismissed.

That probably means some jurisdiction shopping to determine the most favourable location; probably because the action will be commenced as a class action.

As these class action systems develop around the world, those looking to take advantage of the courts in order to make a profit will follow.

The latter two causes were allowed to proceed to trial as a class action.

The court does not decide the merits of the case at this early stage, but merely, examines whether the case is appropriate for treatment as a class action.

If this occurs, the Litigation will be prosecuted as a class action.

The next major step in this case will be the filing of affidavit material by the plaintiff in support of a motion to have this case certified as a class action.

This involved individual litigation as well as class action claims.

And it's not just claims for unpaid overtime that shouldn't necessarily be brought as class actions.

A Delaware court has considered whether a mold lawsuit should proceed as a class action lawsuit.

When it comes to matters of law such as class action suits or complex multi-party disputes, the Brown Law Group brings to the table experience and knowledge.

Slater & Gordon is unusual though in that it is essentially a plaintiff personal injury firm as well as class action lawyers and as such deep pockets are needed to fund this type of litigation and the business model they adopt is well suited to this type of litigation.

Meanwhile, in the Georgia federal court case brought as a class action against Oasis Legal Finance, Judge Dudley Bowen dismissed one element of the lawsuit, and two other counts remain to be decided - including whether Oasis violated the state's Payday Lending Act.

By, Lisa A. Rickard, President, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform As mechanisms for collective redress — better known as class action in the U.S. — spread across Europe, the European Commission is preparing to propose important new EU - wide legislation on collective redress this month.

It was certified as a class action in 2010, which led to confusion over the contradictory denial of certification in Fresco's case.

A lawsuit brought by a former Google employee who says that the company's «bro culture» led to daily sexual harassment is being expanded as a class action after Google tried to push the case into sealed, secret arbitration.

The second legal proceeding asks the Quebec Superior Court for certification as a class action for the purpose of seeking reimbursement of government processing fees in the event that the first legal proceedings is not successful.

Rather than seeing Bitcoin as a democratic vehicle for change, the individuals and companies that focus on Bitcoin are progressively acting like the big banks that I have sued on behalf of consumers in my many years as a class action lawyer.

She is seeking $ 125,000, not the $ 50 million she sought when she was pursuing the matter as a class action.

I'm calling a local multi-million dollar, money grubbing law firm in my area to see if they'd be interested in taking this on as a class action.

Farmers renters insurance policyholders in Texas and many other states sued as a class action, resulting in a settlement.

The case was unprecedented in that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered the claims to proceed as a class action under the Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure.

His extensive litigation and trial experience as a former prosecutor and senior trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice includes serving as class action defense counsel, conducting large internal investigations, handling complex litigation matters, and representing entities in litigation brought by and against the federal government.

Uber could benefit from handling the case as a class action if it is confident that drivers actually are independent contractors under the law, Chen said.

The plaintiffs are looking to proceed as a class action which will cover around 8000 women.

At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen asked if there was a «tension or inconsistency» for Uber to argue that every single one of its drivers is an independent contractor, yet to also argue that the legal issues in the case are so specific to each driver that it can't be decided as a class action.

I just purchase this truck with 56,950 miles on it, had it two weeks and the truck is so disappointing (I can't curse on here so I don't care to go into details... but if there is a such thing as a class action suit for this truck I'm jumping on it).

Well, see, this is where a REAL authors association could be useful, by filing on behalf of all its» members as a class action, and obtaining a standard of editing, say «more than three errors and the publisher can re-print at their expense and make sure the purchasers get the replacements.»

Imagine, for a moment, if the entire population of New Orleans brought suit against Peabody, Arch Coal, and ExxonMobil as a class action for their part emitting CO2 that «created» Hurricane Katrina, or all the families who lost family members in Katrina charged the companies with wrongful death lawsuits.

Class Action by Disabled Employees Against the Social Security Administration Will Go Forward On August 25, 2010, the EEOC Office of Federal Operations affirmed the October 8, 2008 decision of the Administrative Judge to certify the case of a group of disabled employees of the Social Security Administration as a class action.

The complexity of the issues did not prevent them from being tried as a class action here,

«The Court was clear that «misclassification» overtime claims are not all doomed to fail as a class action, just as «off - the - clock» overtime class actions are not guaranteed to be certified.»