Sentences with phrase «many national class actions»

Alabama plans to use the Praxis II exams manufactured by the Educational Testing Service, the same tests that are the focus of national class action lawsuits for scoring errors.

According to Osler, nearly half of privacy class actions initiated in Canada have been commenced in Ontario — which is not surprising given that most national class actions are initiated in this province purely for logistical reasons, says lawyer Jeff Orenstein of the class action law firm Consumer Law Group.

Rodrigue told Legal Feeds she will be at the Montreal office two days a week and will continue to commute to Toronto as she has for the past seven years as the former co-chair of the national class actions team at Norton Rose and its predecessor Ogilvy Renault, where she began her career as a stagiare 22 years ago.

«The Jimenez family has been irreparably changed as a result of something that could have been and should have been prevented,» added Eidson, who is also Co-Lead Counsel for the plaintiffs in the national class action against Ford and Firestone now pending in Indianapolis, Indiana.

However, the provincial legislatures should pay more attention to the framework for national class actions and the problems they present.

Author: Abbey Spanier Rodd & Abrams is a national class action and complex litigation law firm in New York City.

Representatives from Sotos LLP, Siskinds LLP and Koskie Minsky LLP authored the submission to the CBA, which was produced in response to the notice of consultation from the CBA's national class actions task force, created in October.

Finally, Mr. Ringler was appointed as one of nine lead attorneys to prosecute a national class action against Toyota Motor Corporation arising out of the sudden acceleration claims filed by hundreds of attorneys across the country.

Mr. Ringler has served in a leadership role on numerous occasions involving state - wide mass tort actions and has served as well in a leadership role involving a national class action.

On Jan. 2, 2007, the Canadian Bar Association launched the National Class Action Database, a repository for information and documents about new class actions across Canada.

Further, on Aug. 20, 2015, Charney Lawyers and Sutts Strosberg LLP launched a national class action against Avid Dating Life and ALM in Toronto on behalf of all residents of Canada who subscribed to the web site.

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.

He has worked cooperatively with lawyers from across Canada on a national class action claiming compensation for institutional child abuse.

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.

Diet Drug («Fen - phen») New Jersey, Pennsylvania and national class actions ($ 3.75 billion class action settlement);

The Agent Orange litigation ushered in the toxic tort age by presenting the first clash at the national class action level between novel scientific theories and the strictures of legal proof.

Cohen Milstein, as one of the co-lead counsel, filed a national class action alleging that Dish Networks unlawfully raised its prices for satellite television services in February 2011 by raising prices on customers who were bound by a two - year contract with discounted pricing for the first 12 - months.

The presentation, held on February 19, 2014, focused on the national class action litigation involving the use of the words «all natural» (and other related terms) on food, nutritional supplements, and other consumer products.

Cohen Milstein, as one of the co-lead counsel, filed a national class action alleging that Dish Networks unlawfully raised its prices for...

In the process of defending large national class actions, Sterling Cluff saw firsthand how defendants can take advantage of individual consumers and the benefit that individuals gain in their fight against formidable corporations by banding together to form classes with the force of «what's right» behind them.

A U.S. District Court Judge in the Central District of California today dismissed a putative national class action brought against Umeken USA, Inc., a leading manufacturer of dietary supplements and its Chief Executive Officer.

Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos handles statewide and national class action lawsuits on behalf of persons with disabilities who have been denied access to employment, business, education, or government facilities and services.

Obtained dismissal with prejudice of a putative national class action on behalf of our client, a health plan, in a claim of wrongfully denied mental health care benefits filed in federal court.

When a national class action is filed in several provinces, instead of all class members getting behind one firm in one court, he says, they're spread out in respective provinces.

«She's going to be working with a team of lawyers from across Ontario on some of our big national class actions, a much broader range of legal experiences than you would ordinarily get if you're working in an office in Elliot Lake where you're typically doing small - town solicitor work,» he says.

Rob Gain specializes in commercial litigation for Koskie Minsky LLP and says that having no co-ordinated approach to national class actions wastes the court's, claimants» and defendants» time.

Panelist, 2015 ABA National Class Action Institute, «When the Supreme Court Speaks, Does Anyone Listen?»

In separate cases, acted as lead counsel for two manufacturers of consumer products in the same industry in defending purported national class actions challenging warranty practices and disclosures.

«We see evidence of steadily increasing volume and complexity,» said Julianna McCabe, director of Carlton Fields» Class Action Survey and chair of the firm's National Class Actions practice group.

Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of a national class action on demurrer, holding that the plaintiffs could not state a claim for breach of contract for insurer not following purported «national» automotive repair «standards.»

About the Carlton Fields National Class Action Practice: Carlton Fields has litigated and counseled clients in hundreds of class actions for more than 30 years in federal and state courts across the nation, and in arbitrations.

If you are looking for information on a specific class action, you may find the Canadian Bar Association's National Class Action Database helpful.

Chris Coutroulis, a shareholder in the firm's National Class Action practice, added: «Each year we see how the companies in the class action survey evolve more sophisticated practices to manage their cases.»

«There appears to be a trending increase in the magnitude of class actions, with companies facing increasingly higher risk and exposure,» said Julianna McCabe, director of Carlton Fields» Class Action Survey and chair of the firm's National Class Actions practice group.

National class action defense firm that emphasizes winning at trial by simplifying the issues for the juries in complicated cases.

In the context of a national class action, the settlement agreement assigned a supervisory role to Superior Court judges in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec.

Lead trial counsel in the first medical products class action / common issues trial tried to verdict in Canada (146 trial days), successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of life - saving cardiac devices in a national class action claiming more than a billion dollars in damages (awarded 2013 Canadian Product Liability Impact Case of the Year by LMG Life Sciences)

Acted for the families of injured and deceased pets in a trans - national class action, commonly known as the Menu Foods pet food contamination class action (Settlement pending 2008).

Charles Juntikka, a bankruptcy lawyer from New York, brought a national class action against the credit bureaus because their after bankruptcy credit reporting system was not reasonable.

Obtained dismissal, based on federal preemption, of a national class action by boat owners alleging that gasoline containing ethanol is a defective product.

Charney Lawyers, Sutts Strosberg LLP and Branch McMaster LLP have commenced a national class action on behalf of all persons whose private information was compromised due to this incident.

Defended a Japanese company in a national class action alleging a food additive was dangerous and caused specific physical symptoms.

The Charney Practice Group is experienced in litigating class actions including national class actions.

He is one of Connecticut's leading class action defense lawyers, and has a national class action defense practice.

Carlton Fields National Class Actions practice group leader, Julianna Thomas McCabe, was quoted in the Forbes article, «SCOTUS To Decide Arbitration Issue; Unclear If Trump Pick Will Be On Bench In Time.»

Gresham successfully represented victims in the first national class action against Google and Yahoo! for «click fraud.»

Defended a domestic automobile manufacturer in a national class action seeking economic damages due to an alleged defect in its vehicles.

Penalties can include double damages and even plaintiff attorneys can be liable, Frank Qesada, an attorney with MSP Recovery, a Miami law firm that has filed numerous national class actions on behalf of private Medicare providers, told Forbes.

The scope of its review will be broad, ranging from improving «take - up rates» by class members, canvassing different funding options for class actions, and providing guidance for when national class actions are appropriate.

«There are serious difficulties with many national class actions that we have to deal with, and this is one example of it,» says Barry Glaspell, a class actions lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.