Sentences with phrase «force on class actions»

The CBA National Task Force on Class Actions was formed to address these issues.

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A U.S. consumer watchdog on Thursday proposed new rules to block credit card companies, banks, and other companies from forcing customers to waive their rights to join class action lawsuits and only settle disputes through arbitration.

In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»

Private class action securities suits on behalf of investors have been a driving force in holding bad actors accountable.

VANCOUVER — A legal challenge of a British Columbia levy on foreign home buyers has been filed in Vancouver, seeking a class - action lawsuit on behalf of those forced to pay the 15 per cent tax.

The payout settles a class action law suit on behalf of the members of the First Nations communities — Pinaymootang First Nation, Lake St. Martin, Little Saskatchewan and Dauphin River — forced to flee their homes because of flooding in 2011.

The move by a British Columbia company to stop a class action on behalf of Eritreans who say they were forced to work in a mine has failed.

Researchers can also contact the IBA's Multi-Jurisdictional Class Action / Collective Redress Working Group and its Task Force on International Procedures and Protocols for Class Actions (see their Guidelines for Recognising and Enforcing Foreign Judgments for Collective Redress); the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (Class Actions and Mass Torts); the Oxford Centre for Socio - Legal Studies, European Civil Justice Systems; the Searle Civil Justice Institute at George Mason University's Law & Economics Center (SCJI); and check the Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Stanford Law School)-RRB-.

I also mentioned the ongoing class actions against the Canadian Hockey League and its teams (the «CHL») on behalf of junior hockey players, alleging that the CHL conspired to force young players into signing contracts that violated minimum wage laws.

I will consider believing that the action is about principle and not principal when I hear that both Mr. Waldman and his lawyers disclaim, in material filed with the court, any interest in keeping any of the money that they may succeed in forcing Thomson to disgorge beyond, for Mr. Waldman, any actual financial damage he can prove he has sustained (on even a substantial possiblity possibility - but-less than probability basis, assuming he can prove causation on the balance) and for class counsels fees whatever their time is actually worth.

The class action is based on allegations by the former miners that «international law norms against forced labour, slavery and torture were violated during the construction of the mine,» according to the ruling.

The first of the two class actions launched against Coinbase came on Thursday courtesy of lead plaintiff Jeffrey Berk, who, in an eighteen - page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged that Coinbase staff (and possibly others) partook in insider trading with regards to its Bitcoin Cash (BCH) listing; forcing Coinbase users to forgo «any opportunity to buy at a fair price» across the three - day window spanning December 19 through December 21.