Sentences with phrase «federal class action suit»
The settlement also proposes to resolve a pending federal class action suit.
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The lawsuits, each filed by individual artists in a US federal court in Los Angeles, ask a judge to create a class - action suit in which other alleged victims can collectively seek damages.
Four former students filed a suit against Trump University last year in a federal court in California, seeking class - action status.
After its scandal in which it created up to 2 million fraudulent accounts, Wells Fargo (WFC) asked a Federal District Court to order customers to private arbitration instead of the class - action suit they were pursuing.
-RRB- asked a Federal District Court to order customers to private arbitration instead of the class - action suit they were pursuing.
Wells Fargo asked a Federal District Court to block a class - action suit after its false account scandal, a common practice for companies.
The Federal Court has approved a $ 38m settlement in in a class action suit against the air cargo cartel.
A year ago, a federal judge ruled that the lawsuit could be expanded into a class action suit.
CPC settle class - action suit: CPC International Inc. has agreed to settle, for $ 7 million, a federal antitrust class - action suit brought against it on behalf of customers for high fructose corn syrup.
So why do products like Cold - EEZE and Airborne keep on selling, even after class - action suits and Federal Trade Commission actions alleging that their claims of treating the common cold were unsubstantiated?
So it is now backing a «class action suit» in the federal court for the Southern District of New York.
The mega-popular dating site is engaging in «one of the biggest conspiracies ever executed on the Internet,» the class - action Manhattan Federal Court suit says.
When their children were not promoted to grade 4, the parents filed a class action suit in state court, alleging violations of the children's due process and equal protection rights under the state and federal constitutions.
A federal judge has dismissed a class action suit that alleged Mercedes - Benz misled consumers about emissions of its «BlueTec Clean Diesel» models, just when...
Author Solutions lawyers maintained the suit was «a misguided attempt to make a federal class action out of a series of gripes».
And on Thursday, backed by a Chicago - based law firm, Gawronski filed suit (PDF) against Amazon in federal court, seeking class - action status.
Several class action suits against Del Monte over Chinese - made jerky treats will proceed in a federal district court.
In February, Frank Lucido filed a class action suit in federal court in California against Nestlé Purina PetCare Co. claiming two of his dogs became sick and one died after he fed them Beneful.
(The suits are referred to as a mass action because they involve multiple suits that raise similar claims, but they don't seek to be certified as a class action under the federal rules of civil procedure.)
Our attorneys have extensive experience with class action suits alleging federal, state and local violations of law.
Our team has worked with US federal, state and local government agencies to defend against governmental enforcement actions and citizen suits, response cost litigation, indemnification claims, toxic tort class actions, imminent and substantial endangerment litigation, and criminal environmental claims.
Laura McNally defends clients in class and individual actions brought under federal securities law, challenges to mergers and acquisitions, derivative suits, and appraisals.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a class - action settlement in a suit against Google met requirements of federal law when $ 5.3 million of the $ 8.5 million...
SiriusXM has agreed to pay up to $ 99 million to settle three class action suits claiming the satellite radio service infringed musicians» copyrights for music recorded before 1972, when federal...
This decision will likely have a ripple effect in Sixties Scoop cases across Canada, but each province's unique agreement with the federal government made a national class action suit on this issue impossible.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of Washington, D.C., took a middle ground in her decision on Saturday in a class - action suit that contends Pacer fees violate federal law because they exceed the actual costs of providing the records, the National Law Journal reports.
«plaintiffs filing class action suits could be refused a hearing in state court if they came from several different states, and then bounced out of federal court because their complaint called for applying the laws of multiple states.»
Her experience includes federal criminal and civil investigations, securities class actions and derivative suits, SEC actions, and complex civil litigation matters.
Andrew has been engaged by Fortune 100 companies in the defense of class action suits brought in state and federal courts throughout the country.
She defends lenders, servicers, and other financial institutions in class actions and individual suits against consumer lawsuits alleging violations of state and federal statutes, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Or, to put it differently, the individual suit that was considered adequate to assure «effective vindication» of a federal right before adoption of class - action procedures did not suddenly become «ineffective vindication» upon their adoption.
We also have significant experience in administrative and other regulatory litigation, including agency rule challenges, regulatory investigations under state and federal false claims acts and unfair trade practice statutes, and defending clients in related individual and class action civil suits.
Robert Chmielinski, a Nokia investor, has filed a class action suit in U.S. Federal Court claiming Nokia made false and misleading comments on its Windows Phones and how the new phones would effect the company's position in the market.
govinfosecurity.com - A federal judge has largely rejected a motion by Verizon to dismiss a class - action suit filed by victims of three data breaches that compromised Yahoo, which is now
The proposed settlement was approved by a federal Judge in Illinois stemming from a national class - action suit involving allegations of FCRA violations against sister companies that employed drivers.
A Wisconsin federal court has ruled that an antitrust suit in which a real estate practitioner is seeking to participate in the MLS without becoming a REALTOR ® isn't a class - action suit.
This class action suit comes on the heels of Fidelity agreeing to pay a $ 1.25 M settlement to the state of California for alleged RESPA kickbacks violations after a previous case that led to a 2011 settlement where Fidelity agreed to pay the federal government $ 4.5 M for the same violations.