Sentences with phrase «largest class action settlement»

The IAP is part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class action settlement in Canadian history.

For example, he successfully served as lead counsel for most of the nation's principal retailers in a Second Circuit appeal of the second - largest class action settlement in history.

The IRSSA is the largest class action settlement in Canadian history to date.

Recent successes include a landmark $ 1 billion antitrust verdict against Dow Chemical Company over urethane price - fixing, and the largest class action settlement pertaining to the fraudulent sale of mortgage - backed securities — a $ 500 million recovery for purchasers of Countrywide mortgage - backed securities.

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 eight years).

It was the largest class action settlement in history and the attorneys involved have walked away with a pretty penny themselves.

Moreover, it is the largest class action settlement in history not involving a restatement of financial reports.

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.

It is also the largest settlement ever in a class action involving a foreign issuer and it is the fifth largest class action settlement ever achieved in the United States.

This represents the largest securities class action settlement in a decade, the largest settlement ever in a class action involving a foreign issuer, and the fifth - largest class action settlement ever achieved in the United States.

Not exact matches

In what is described as South Africa's largest class - action settlement, mining companies have agreed to resolve a lawsuit with gold miners who contracted lung diseases.

This settlement represents the largest securities class action settlement in a decade.

It's the largest auto - related class - action settlement in history, affecting roughly 15 percent of all new VW and Audi models sold in the U.S. during the relevant six - year timespan (475,000 of 3,099,678 total units sold, source: Wikipedia).

The ruling concerned the long running Google Books Settlement, a class action orginally started in 2005 when authors and publishers in the US sued Google for copyright infringment of works scanned as part of its large - scale scanning of books held in major library collections.

Professor Brickman argues that the BP suit is representative of a larger trend in American class action litigation whereby the plaintiffs» lawyers are hired on a contingency fee basis and end up reaping enormous sums from the settlement.

Her accomplishments include development of legal reforms following Deepwater Horizon, the successful defense of the first renewables on public lands, and the historic settlement of the largest class action lawsuit in U.S. history — the Cobell tribal trust litigation.

However I think bifurcating class action settlement approval into a damages stage and a fees stage could have significant distributional consequences in the more typical class action where counsel fees are quite large relative to damages (e.g. 20 % +).

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.

Recently acted as lead counsel in defending several of the nation's largest retailers in consumer class actions across the country challenging the efficacy of a popular nutritional supplement; obtained court approval of a global settlement of less than $ 3 million (including attorneys» fees and notice costs).

Credit Card Interchange Fees: PSW represents liquidating trustees for several, large national merchants who have opted out of a class action settlement in a multidistrict case arising from anticompetitive conduct in the credit and debit card markets.

Sino Forest - Insolvency Counsel to successful Class Action Litigants who obtained one of the largest settlements ever against an accounting firm.

Notable mandates: lead counsel in $ 2 - billion diesel settlement with Volkswagen and the $ 69 - million settlement in Dugal v. Manulife Financial; lead counsel in SNC - Lavalin investor class action; currently lead counsel in transvaginal mesh settlement cases and the only firm to get this type of case certified in a contested motion; recovered more than $ 100 million for clients in market currency in FX price - fixing case; obtained a $ 3.5 - million judgment from a jury following a five - week personal injury trial; acted as counsel in numerous cross-border transactions including the acquisition of the largest golf course in Canada; successfully defended clients in numerous high - profile environmental cases

Menorah Gardens Cemeteries / Service Corporation International: Our firm's class action litigation team achieved a $ 100 million settlement against Menorah Gardens Cemeteries and its parent company Service Corporation International, the nation's largest funeral home operator.

Also obtained favorable settlement of securities fraud class action — one of the largest ever filed — and victories in a number of related «opt - out» cases in courts around the country

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.