Sentences with phrase «class of plaintiffs»

The class of plaintiffs has yet to be certified, and it's still unclear whether the plaintiffs» argument will find favor with the court.

To do so would constitute an unwarranted expansion of a duty owed to one class of plaintiffs and extend it to the fundamentally different claim advanced by the franchisees.

Plaintiff Leroy Washington, on behalf of himself and a putative class of plaintiffs, contends that Indiana's statute violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

In a toxic tort case, the plaintiff (or, often, a whole class of plaintiffs) claims that a sickness or injury is the result of exposure to some dangerous substance that the defendant negligently or intentionally put into the environment — the hundreds of thousands of asbestos cases that have been filed, for example.

Also, there is strength in numbers; if there are enough people affected by the same wrongdoing, you have a better chance of obtaining compensation if you participate as part of a class of plaintiffs.

This requirement makes it very difficult to form a class of plaintiffs and meet the high burden of proof that every individual suffered the exact same harm.

District Court Judge Edward Chen certified a class of plaintiffs that includes «all UberBlack, UberX, and UberSUV drivers who have driven for Uber in the state of California at any time since August 16, 2009» — as many as 160,000 people.

As there was no way for the Court to determine whether all of the individuals within the proposed class of plaintiffs were or were not eligible for overtime pay as a group, the Court could not certify the proposed class.

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.)

(U.S. June 19, 2017) in which the court finds that «specific personal jurisdiction» (as opposed to «general jurisdiction») is lacking with regard to the claims of members of the class of plaintiffs who are not California residents in this case brought in a California state trial court (in an 8 - 1 decision with Justice Sotomayor dissenting).

Not every case has a crisis at its core, but each one has its own raison d'être that by its very existence causes stress for the client, whether it's someone buying a new house or a firm buying a new company or a class of plaintiffs wanting to sue someone for a real or perceived wrong.

Notably, earlier in February, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled to certify a sizable class of plaintiffs in the ERISA lawsuit targeting two 403 (b) retirement plans at New York University.

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.

We have represented classes of plaintiffs in claims involving securities, antitrust violations, pharmaceuticals, disability access, employment discrimination, ERISA, employment benefits, wage and hour violations, elder abuse, and construction defects.

Not exact matches

CELGENE SHAREHOLDER ALERT: CLAIMSFILER REMINDS INVESTORS WITH LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $ 100,000 of Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Celgene Corporation - CEOF $ 100,000 of Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Celgene Corporation - CEof Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Celgene Corporation - CELG

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.

But south of the border, U.S. regulators could apply a concept called «fraud on the market» — meaning if companies failed to disclose information affecting their stock price, plaintiffs could automatically launch a class - action suit.

All of that comes on top of more than 500 class actions filed on behalf of owners and lessors of Volkswagen diesel cars — an unprecedented number, according to Elizabeth Cabraser, a leading mass - disaster plaintiffs attorney who is heading a 22 - lawyer steering committee trying to bring order to the sprawling mess.

The Klein Law Firm Reminds Investors of a Class Action Commenced on Behalf of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Shareholders and a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of June 5, 2018

The Klein Law Firm Announces a Class Action Commenced on Behalf of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Shareholders and a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of June 5, 2018

As a result of the fraudulent conduct alleged herein, Plaintiff and other members of the Class purchased Longfin common stock at artificially inflated prices and suffered significant losses and damages once the truth emerged

On behalf of the players, the Charney Lawyers, a Toronto - based firm specializing in class - action law, is seeking compensation for time logged by the plaintiffs in the major junior league.

It allows a few representative and committed plaintiffs to act on behalf of the interests of an entire class of injured parties.

If the class - action lawsuit against Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Ford rules in favor of the plaintiffs he notion of making money at all costs will also prove to be catastrophic at these companies.

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

The class action suit contends that Microsoft cheated the plaintiffs represented — roughly 8,630 women engineers and IT specialists — out of 518 promotions and between $ 100 million and $ 238 million in pay between 2011 and 2016.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

An employee and a clever plaintiffs» lawyer can always claim that denial was in fact discrimination based on a protected class (provided one exists, of course).

State regulators, unlike class action plaintiffs, can claim statutory penalties for every violation of state law.

Thus, for at least half of the class period, there was no requirement to make the disclosures demanded by the plaintiff.

Wagner: Cohen Milstein has obviously attempted to construct the broadest possible group of Intel employees as participants in the plaintiff class in order to ensure a large damages award.

Plaintiff Christopher M. Sulyma, on behalf of two proposed classes of participants in the Intel 401 (k) Savings Plan and the Intel Retirement Contribution Plan, claims that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by investing a significant portion of the plans» assets in risky and high - cost hedge fund and private equity investments.

By Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / December 13, 2017 / Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, reminds investors in Tivity Health, Inc. («Tivity» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ: TVTY) of the January 19, 2018 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class -LSB-...]

In a Nov. 2 decision, Judge Susan Richard Nelson granted a preliminary injunction to Thrivent Financial, accepting plaintiff's claims of irreparable harm if the class - action provisions contained in the DOL rule are permitted to become law.

In that opinion, the first to address fee - shifting provisions following ATP, the Delaware Court of Chancery found that a fee - shifting bylaw was inapplicable to a share - holder plaintiff and the class where the bylaw was adopted after a plaintiff had been forcibly cashed out through a reverse stock split.

Shareholder Litigation., C.A. No. 422598 - V (2018), the Maryland Circuit Court, Montgomery County, approved a $ 17.5 million settlement that plaintiffs achieved as additional consideration on behalf of a class of shareholders of American Capital, Ltd..

The class action filing, dated April 5 and submitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, lists Arizona resident and BitGrail customer Alex Brola as the lead plaintiff.

The plaintiffs who originally filed the lawsuit on behalf of the class — Ingrid Avendano, Ana Medina and Roxana Del Toro Lopez — worked in the same engineering department as Fowler.

The plaintiff's law firm, Silver Miller is running this class action lawsuit and the co-founder, David Silver is part of the original lawsuit.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans became the sixth plaintiff to lob a complaint against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule when the insurer filed a suit in late September challenging the class - action waiver requirement under the rule's best interest contract exemption, or BICE.

NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC («KSF») and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 8, 2018 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL), if they purchased the Company's shares between August 19, 2016 and August 17, 2017, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqclass action lawsuit against Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL), if they purchased the Company's shares between August 19, 2016 and August 17, 2017, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqClass Period»).

It is important for food industry businesses and decision makers to anticipate and understand any newfound tactics of the plaintiff class action bar, and to form a plan of action to respond to these new tactics.

NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC («KSF») and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 7, 2018 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Henry Schein, Inc. (NasdaqGS: HSIC), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 7, 2013 and February 12, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqclass action lawsuit against Henry Schein, Inc. (NasdaqGS: HSIC), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 7, 2013 and February 12, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqClass Period»).

NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC («KSF») and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 4, 2018 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGM: AFH), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 13, 2017, and March 2, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqclass action lawsuit against Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqGM: AFH), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 13, 2017, and March 2, 2018, inclusive (the «Class Period&raqClass Period»).

The exploitative tactics of the plaintiff - side lawyers in the food class action space is becoming more pronounced.

The court ruled that, for purposes of summary judgment, the plaintiff class established a defect not because their individually purchased products contained biological contaminants, but rather because the act of recalling potentially contaminated food provided evidence of a product defect.

Investor advocate, Mark Elliott — who recently won a class action on behalf of investors in Downer EDI — lodged the claim on behalf of investor John Webster, who will act as «lead plaintiff» in the case on behalf of other investors who join the action.

Publication of the editorial came on the same day as two other events of note, first, the release of a new book, Back in the Game, in which sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher and award - winning journalist Joanne Gerstner repeatedly and pointedly criticize the media for «irresponsible» reporting on CTE, and second, the filing of a class action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Pop Warner, USA Football, and the National Operating Committee on Standards For Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) which assumes as scientific fact that repetitive head impacts sustained in youth football «exposed» plaintiffs» sons to CTE, and led one to engage in «erratic and reckless behavior» resulting in his untimely death, and the other to take his own life.

The class - action lawsuit against the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago, which represents the cemeteries, and Westlawn Cemetery, an association member, was filed by the Chicago Rabbinical Council and named one plaintiff, Carole Katz of Chicago.

Also at 10:30 a.m., parents of student plaintiffs will gather in front of the NYC Department of Education's headquarters at Tweed Courthouse to announce the filing of an historic class action lawsuit for failing to protect students against violence at school, Manhattan.