Sentences with phrase «including class action suits»

He also represents clients in environmental litigation, including class action suits alleging ground water contamination and landfill suits alleging improper acceptance, classification and disposal of liquid wastes.

Under a state law passed in June of last year, ride - hailing contractors are required to pass a criminal background check, but county lawmakers lobbied for more thorough vetting for prospective contractors in Westchester amid a slew of allegations against Uber and its employees, including a class action suit claiming drivers had sexually assaulted customers.

On litigation side, our legal services include class actions suits, writs and corporate litigation has been ranked among the top business litigation practices.

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Meanwhile, in 2009 Ontario courts approved the Imax class - action suit and ruled it would be tried as a global class, meaning any investor who bought shares, whether on the TSX or Nasdaq, can be included as a plaintiff.

Many tech companies find themselves in messy class - action gender - discrimination suits, including Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and Uber, according to The New Yorker.

«These companies, they don't want to be Craigslist,» says Shannon Liss - Riordan, a veteran labor lawyer spearheading a number of the biggest misclassification suits, including the Uber class action.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

The Briscoe Law Firm, PLLC is a full service business litigation and shareholder rights advocacy firm with more than 20 years of experience in complex litigation matters, including claims of investor and stockholder fraud, shareholder derivative suits, and securities class actions.

The proposed class - action suit alleges a racist culture at Tesla, unsafe factory conditions, and failure on the part of the company, including CEO Elon Musk personally, to prevent or investigate race - based harassment and discrimination there.

For example, in 1987 a class action suit was filed against Jim and Tammy Bakker on behalf of some 161,000 donors to the Bakker's PTL programs who had paid $ 1,000 each to become «lifetime partners,» a status which included free accommodations at the PTL theme park.

He said that compared to other cases, including a recent class action suit that was filed in California and named the producer personally, his office is looking at the company as a whole.

US NEWS - July 31 - A class action suit against Successful Match alleges that the company broke the law and its promises of confidentiality to customers on PositiveSingles.com by sharing their HIV and STD statuses on «thousands» of spinoff sites, including HIVGayMen.com, STDHookup.com and Blackpoz.com.

The class - action suit from Hagens Berman in California isn't the only attempt to challenge the agency model: European antitrust authorities have also investigated whether there has been collusion to keep prices high — including conducting raids on publishing houses — and the attorney - general in Texas has looked into the issue as well.

It asks the court to certify the class action, return publication rights to the three plaintiffs and other members of the class who so desire, allow plaintiffs and the class to recover damages, allow plaintiffs and the class to recover the costs of the suit, require PublishAmerica to pay restitution to the defendants and the class, and grant «further relief as may be determined to be just,» including punitive damages.

There's currently a class action suit being formed, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that the culprit had absconded with everything of worth including the intellectual property of every author the business ever marketed.

Random House did not adopt the agency pricing model until March of this year, and was not included in the original class - action suit, although it is listed in the New York suit filed the next day.

Other groups across Canada agree and class action suits have been launched by senior citizen and anti-poverty activists, as well as other groups in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, including a recent one by Derek Nepinak, a former grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Andi is an experienced litigator focusing her practice on complex commercial litigation, including shareholder and corporate governance disputes, fraud, RICO, land use, construction, shareholder derivative suits, business torts, supply chain, class actions, product liability, trade secrets and non-compete disputes.

Goldblatt Partners has filed similar class - action suits against other large employers, including Scotiabank that settled out of court.

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For example, reforms to discovery and class action suits will save all litigants time and money, including state and local government.

In addition, we have served as class counsel in national class action suits including national litigation against Abbott Laboratories, Bausch & Lomb, Inc., Sulzer Orthopedics, and Warner Lambert Drug Company.

Mr. Miller also has extensive experience in class action litigation, including wage and hour, § 17200, and ADA Title III class action suits.

Her experience includes federal criminal and civil investigations, securities class actions and derivative suits, SEC actions, and complex civil litigation matters.

Prior to joining Lewis Wagner, Meghan was an associate in the New York firm Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry's insurance coverage group, where she represented insurance company clients in insurance coverage litigation, and advised insurers on exposure and liability issues in wide array of tort and commercial contexts, including mass tort and class action litigation involving pharmaceuticals, chemical, transportation, news and entertainment, and oil and gas; environmental suits; FDA compliance claims; unfair competition and false advertising claims; intellectual property claims; construction defect; personal injury; product liability; and associated breach of contract claims.

In addition to those, Merck faces 275 class actions, including suits for personal injuries, consumer fraud and prescription reimbursements.

Litigation: Our litigators represent hospitality and restaurant clients in commercial, consumer, employment and class action lawsuits, including intellectual property and trade secret disputes, lease disputes, contract disputes, injunctions, vendor disputes, ADA suits, and construction disputes.

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.

Since joining Branch MacMaster in 1998, Don has acted for the defence and for plaintiffs in numerous class action law suits, including products liability, life insurance and health claims.

Don has participated in the defence of a number of class action law suits, including products liability, insurance and health claims... (more)

The class action suit, initiated by three California students who claimed the practice was discriminatory, snowballed to include nearly 40 claimants.

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.

Our powerful blend of litigation and arbitration experience brings expertise to all sides of complex disputes, including successfully defending clients against private, government, and class action suits and representing plaintiffs in major cases of first impression.

Those include a suit from a Facebook shareholder who is seeking class - action status, claiming he and other company shareholders have suffered losses and damages since the Cambridge Analytica news was first reported, and another from a woman seeking class - action status over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica's alleged improper data collection.

However, plaintiffs in the class action suit, including Sjunde AP - Fonden and Amalgamated Bank, as trustee for several key funds, have alleged that Zuckerberg, Andreessen and others breached their fiduciary responsibility by engaging in a massive conflict of interest.

The past twelve months included a Washington case in which home purchasers sufficiently alleged a deceptive trade practices class action suit against listing brokers who failed to provide specific disclosures regarding airport noise as required by a county ordinance.