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Aside from being an exceedingly entertaining read (for anyone other than the petitioners» counsel), the opinion is of interest for Judge Posner's additional discussion of the potential (with an emphasis on the word potential) abuses of class action settlements by both plaintiffs» attorneys and defendants.

It would thus seem that the Netherlands will bless a global class action settlement by virtually any corporation with widely held stock.

Not exact matches

Racial discrimination in hiring and employment practices continued at investment bank Morgan Stanley (ms) despite a class - action settlement more than a decade ago, according to a new lawsuit filed Thursday by a former employee.

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.

This is not only the largest securities class action settlement in a decade, but is the largest settlement ever in a class action involving a foreign issuer, the fifth - largest class action settlement ever achieved in the United States, and the largest settlement achieved by a foreign lead plaintiff.

The 2016 settlement reached after Trump won the election but before he took office combined two California class - action lawsuits and a civil action by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

July 14, 2017 — / PR NEWSWIRE / - Ruby Corp. and Ruby Life Inc. (ruby), and a proposed class of plaintiffs, co-led by Dowd & Dowd, P.C., The Driscoll Firm, P.C., and Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC, have reached a proposed settlement agreement resolving the class action lawsuits that were filed beginning July 2015 following a data breach of ruby's computer network and subsequent release of certain personal information of customers of Ashley Madison, an online dating website owned and operated by Ruby Life Inc. (formerly Avid Dating Life Inc.) The lawsuits, alleging inadequate data security practices and misrepresentations regarding Ashley Madison, have been consolidated in a multi-district litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

Mayor Villaraigosa was joined today by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, Board Member Yolie Flores, lawyers from the ACLU - SC, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, as well as teachers from Gompers Middle School to discuss the details of the settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger today approved the landmark settlement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, in February 2010 on behalf of students at three Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) middle schools.

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.

This settlement also encompasses a class - action lawsuit brought by a law firm on behalf of ebook purchasers everywhere.

The defendants are also negotiating with state attorneys general led by the AGs of Texas and Connecticut to reach a settlement that would enable the defendants to escape from the threat of the class action suit.

Under the proposed settlement, announced Wednesday morning, Penguin would pay $ 75 million to consumers represented by 33 states» attorneys general and by Hagens Berman, the Seattle - based law firm that filed the class action suit against Apple (s AAPL) and publishers in 2011.

Recently I've written about class action lawsuits by debt settlement company employees against their employers for wage issues.

A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit claiming Blue Buffalo Company, Ltd. pet foods labeling was false and deceptive and that it falsely claimed that the products do not include chicken / poultry by - product meals, corn, wheat or soy, or artificial preservatives.

A $ 2,150,000 settlement fund will be reportedly created by Natura under the class action settlement.

The claim is Sony's settlement for a nationwide class action lawsuit sparked by the decision to remove the OtherOS feature of the PlayStation 3.

Darnton explores the costs and benefits of Google's having effectively captured the right to publish electronic versions of U.S. literature thanks to the settlement of the class action by publishers.

Any certified class action settlement has to be approved by a court.

In a victory sure to be hailed by professional baseball players everywhere, a Massachusetts judge is expected to give his approval today to a $ 10.65 million settlement of a class action lawsuit involving smokeless tobacco, the Boston Herald reports.

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For example, a 12 November 2010 Dutch case I was looking for a while ago was not in the Global Class Action Exchange website in English translation, but I was able to find a sworn translation provided at the Converium Settlements website by Googling.

The settlement brings to a close the consolidated class action lawsuit brought in 2010 by multiple retirement funds against Countrywide and other defendants for securities violations involving the packaging and sale of MBS.

On April 17, 2013, Plaintiffs in the landmark mortgage - backed securities (MBS) class action litigation against Countrywide Financial Corporation and others, led by Lead Plaintiff, the Iowa Public Employees» Retirement System (IPERS), agreed to a $ 500 million settlement.

Class action financing could encourage just the opposite — as parties try to create a «perfect storm» of class action or tort litigation to force settlement by defendants unwilling to risk a large judgment, even in a baseless Class action financing could encourage just the opposite — as parties try to create a «perfect storm» of class action or tort litigation to force settlement by defendants unwilling to risk a large judgment, even in a baseless class action or tort litigation to force settlement by defendants unwilling to risk a large judgment, even in a baseless case.

The Court went on to state that any proposed settlement of the class actions must ultimately be approved by the courts for fairness, reasonableness and adequacy, including examining whether a «coupon settlement» was appropriate and fair in the circumstances.

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).

By handicapping class actions, Anand says no - contest settlements could cut off an avenue that is often the only realistic prospect of restitution for investors.

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Our personal injury law firm has a solid history of successfully obtaining verdicts and settlements for consumers harmed by defective products in cases involving individual plaintiffs, class action lawsuits and multidistrict litigation.

This was not cited as a basis for overturning the settlement, but Judge Posner used the opportunity «to remind the class action bar of the importance of insisting that named plantiffs be genuine fiduciaries, uninfluenced by family ties... or friendships.»

That is one reason why so few consumers bother to collect on class action settlements — they did not feel injured by the supposed wrongdoing in the first place.

As counsel for the plaintiffs, Matthew has won numerous out - of - court settlements in a class action and collective action discrimination, overtime and education claims — including many cases brought by police officers and educators.

Petition 15 - 6 was filed by the Access to Justice Commission on October 9th and requests a rule change that would require that at least 50 % of unclaimed funds in class action settlements be directed towards the state's civil legal aid providers.

In litigation, discovery is very expensive for defendants, and it is used by plaintiffs» lawyers to coerce settlements, particularly in class actions.

The firm's Baltimore office was commended by Chambers USA for its «particular strength in intricate class action cases, encompassing Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Medicaid and securities fraud statutes.»

Controversial class action settlement changed after intervention from AGs, DOJ and CCAF: In response to intervention from the Department of Justice, 19 State AGs, and civil justice groups, a controversial class action settlement proposal in the «Wines «Til Sold Out» case has been revised by defendants....

Those who remain in the class action are typically bound by the judgment or settlement obtained.

Advising on its complaint against the takeover of bmi by IAG and its appeal in the EU General Court against the European Commission's decision authorising the IAG / bmi acquisition, as well as on its class action settlement covering US and UK consumers related to cartel investigations into long - haul passenger fuel surcharges

Contested motions were brought by class action counsel in each of the three provinces pursuant to the settlement agreement.

On May 30, 2011, this action was certified as a class proceeding for the purposes of settlement and the settlement agreements reached with Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., («Sony»), EMI Group Canada Inc. («EMI»), Universal Music Canada Inc. («Universal»), Warner Music Canada Co. («Warner»), (collectively, the «Record Companies»), the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. («CMRRA»), the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SODRAC) Inc. and SODRAC 2003 Inc. («SODRAC»)(collectively, the «Collective Society Defendants») were approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

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.

The state's high court sided with objectors, vacating 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.

Notable mandates: current and ongoing class actions have included representing employee groups in several insolvency proceedings, including Nortel, Canwest and Plasco; representing former patients of Norman Barwin, who is alleged to have negligently inseminated his patients with the wrong sperm; representing air pilots employed by Air Canada over a breach of contract; representing former students of the residential school system, and their entitlements, under the 2007 Residential Schools Settlement Agreement; representing employees of BlackBerry Canada after a transfer of employees.

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.

Some commentators have suggested that this decision could endanger nationwide class action settlements in cases governed by state law (it's not a problem where federal law applies).

Notable mandates: One of two negotiators for 50 Catholic entities parties to the Indian Residential School Settlement Class Action; lead counsel for Athabasca Potash Inc. during its IPO, and local counsel during its subsequent acquisition by BHP Billiton Canada Inc.; acted for Input Capital in a one - of - a-kind private placement of shares offering used to fund canola streaming contracts for farmers seeking capital; assisted Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in the acquisition by the Great - West Life Insurance Co. of several shopping centres across Canada; involved in development of, and represents, Canadian Light Source Inc., the country's only national synchrotron research facility.

We have also represented the Government of Canada (with a Torys team led by the former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci) in resolving approximately 15,000 Indian Residential Schools claims and more than 20 class actions commenced in virtually all Canadian provinces and territories; the settlement was the largest and most complex class action settlement in Canadian history.