Sentences with phrase «members of class action suits»

We aggressively fight for the rights of employees who have suffered discriminatory practices and members of class action suits who have been discriminated against.

Not exact matches

NY POST - Feb 8 - Melissa Midwest, recently replaced part - time model Yuliana Avalos in heading a class - action suit accusing Match.com of posting fake dating profiles to attract paying members.

In the Central District of California, attorneys filed a similar suit and asked the court to grant class - action status so other members impacted by the «nightmare» brought on by hackers can see relief.

Mayor Villaraigosa was joined today by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, Board Member Yolie Flores, lawyers from the ACLU - SC, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, as well as teachers from Gompers Middle School to discuss the details of the settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

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.

Imagine, for a moment, if the entire population of New Orleans brought suit against Peabody, Arch Coal, and ExxonMobil as a class action for their part emitting CO2 that «created» Hurricane Katrina, or all the families who lost family members in Katrina charged the companies with wrongful death lawsuits.

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.

She is an active member of and frequent author for the American Bar Association's Class Action and Derivative Suits (CADS) Committee, and is a co-chair of CADS's Emerging Issues Subgroup.

To help in the analysis of who should be part of this class action suit, Justice Perell divided the class members into three groups:

Despite the fact that section 97 of the Employment Standards Act (ESA) specifies that an employee who files a complaint with the MOL for unpaid termination and severance pay under the ESA can not commence a civil proceeding for wrongful dismissal if the complaint and the proceeding would relate to the same matter, 236 of the class members who had filed a complaint under the ESA had joined the class action suit.

Provides immunity for businesses and government agencies who follow specified procedures; provides exclusive remedy in contract, if no written contract: limits recovery to direct economic damages; bars recovery for damages which plaintiff could have avoided or mitigated; requires mediation; prohibits class actions against government agencies; requires each class member has a loss of $ 50,000 to bring a class action; provides liability protection for directors and officers; and requires filing of suit by March 1, 2002.

Members of the class - action suit say they are at risk of developing neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and dementia...

If CREA or TREB ever publicly supplied information that negatively impacted the selling prices of homes currently under contract with their members, would this open CREA or TREB up to a possible Class Action Suit?

Because the suit isn't a class action, the amount of recoverable damages is limited solely to the member's dues and attorneys» fees.

He also asked that the trial court certify the suit as a class - action suit on behalf of all members of the association.