Sentences with phrase «more class action suits»

It could lead to more class action suits against such businesses in years to come.

Not exact matches

Now, as Ontario is becoming more lenient with class - action suit regulations, the U.S. is tightening its laws.

Lawyers representing more than 300 former and current players are seeking to have a class - action suit certified in courts in Calgary next month and in Toronto in March.

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.

If Israel has something like the US «class action suit» available, that might make more sense, as it's less stress on the individual, and is likely to have a larger impact on the company.

«After accepting more than $ 100,000 in campaign contributions from plaintiff's attorneys he employs in class action suits — which can be hugely lucrative to those firms — Mr. DiNapoli is using official state business to solicit campaign contributions.

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.

A class - action suit, claiming personal and property damage to more than a million Florida residents, is filed against the malathion manufacturer Cheminova.

Some of those names, like Author Solutions — who is currently embroiled in not - its - first legal battle with authors in a class action suit — are simply synonymous with ripping off authors who have a dream of... [Read more...]

News came out this week that Hagens Berman, the same Seattle - based law firm that initiated the class action lawsuits against Apple for its role in the anti-trust violations and price fixing collusion with the now - Big Five publishers, has filed a suit against Google, alleging anti-trust violations that led the search... [Read more...]

The class - action suit (which Patently Apple described in more detail in a recent post) puts it this way:

That lawsuit, originally filed as a class - action suit by a Seattle - based law firm on behalf of consumers, quickly evolved into a full Department... [Read more...]

Apple filed a motion to dismiss that class - action suit brought by Seattle - based law firm Hagens Berman, but that motion was... [Read more...]

Three of the five publishers named in the class - action lawsuit and the Department of Justice investigation and suit against Apple and Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins have already settled out of court with the DoJ, but today the judge on the case took another of those three... [Read more...]

But the arrival of the Kindle Fire and the robust growth of the e-book market means there will be even more at stake when (and if) the class action suits go to trial.

However, as part of a settlement in a class action suit against credit bureaus, all three credit agencies agreed to train their own investigators and do a more thorough job examining mistakes.

Chase loses bigtime in a class action suit because this is easily a change in effective APR without an opt out provision gear toward those with more ability to pay than the average customer.

The more I look at the fedloan paperwork, the more paranoid I feel... Venting is good but if anyone out there is doing a class action law - suit or anything that holds these folks accountable and can do justice for us, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO JOIN YOU in bringing these folks to justice!!!

Through a class - action suit, card issuers were punished for failing to disclose the information, with more than 10 million checks going out to credit card holders to compensate them for inadequate disclosures.

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She handled her first class action more than 20 years ago, and there have been few times since then that she has not had one or more class suits on her plate.

At the time I came on board in 2008, Slater and Gordon more or less had only two practice areas, which were personal injury and specialized class action law suits.

Study Links Depo - Provera to Greater Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 16, 2012 Israeli Court Awards Highest - Ever Compensation in Class - Action Suit against Drug Company, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 There have reportedly been more than 200 reports of people sustaining serious health complications from taking Pradaxa.

As pointed out above, the anti-exclusivity proponents see exclusive ODR clauses as a means to stop consumers from filing class action suits and, more generally, to forego their fundamental right to a public trial before an impartial third party.

Phillip Stano relies on more than 30 years of experience — as a regulator, then as counsel for a life insurers» trade association and now as a defense attorney — to achieve positive outcomes in class action suits, other complex financial services litigation, and regulatory and compliance counseling.

In a statement to Law Blog, Katherine Barrett, the general counsel for Anheuser - Busch's U.S. operations, said, «It's certainly possible that the $ 3.5 million fee collected by the plaintiffs» attorneys will outsize the benefit paid to consumers, an outcome that is increasingly more common in class action suits such as this.»

Two class actions have been filed against Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder and the city of Flint, and Taylor said more suits may be on the way.

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 law suit allows plaintiffs to pool their efforts and it makes for a more efficient use of judicial resources.

Critics say class action suits benefit lawyers more than consumers, but the CFPB found only 20 % of company payouts go to legal costs, and only if the suits are successful.

The news comes as some 60,000 people have now signed up to the suit, 25,000 of which have assigned their claims to join the class action, and 35,000 of which have registered to assign their claims when and if the suit widens to cover more users.

The class action suit against LG regarding bootloop issues may be looking to add more devices like the G5, V20, and Nexus 5X.

Then it bungled its response, initially forcing those affected to sign a legal document prohibiting them from joining a class - action suit, then inadvertently directing potential victims to a fake phishing site which proceeded to steal yet more information.

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That's on top of the more than 30 class action suits that were filed against the company.

Microsoft has been very (I'd say, overly) pushy about trying to get users to take the free update — so pushy that there are two more suits against the company over this that are seeking class - action status, as reported by The Seattle Times.

The Tezos legal battle continues as the Restis Law firm in San Diego, along with Lite DePalma Greenberg, have filed a class action law suit in the state of California on behalf of GGCC, LLC against Dynamic Ledger Solutions (DLS), Tezos Stiftung (a Swiss Foundation), Kathleen Breitman... Read More

And their subsidiaries in Canada said they would appeal a major court decision in Quebec to award C$ 15.6 bn in damages in a class action suit launched by more than a million smokers and former smokers.

Evan Stark, a leading researcher, and scholar in the domestic violence field, and lead expert for the plaintiff mothers in Nicholson v. Williams, a successful class action suit, [note 7] states that «it has been known for some time that men are the overwhelming perpetrators where children are severely injured or killed, accounting for up to 80 % of severe injury and child fataility in some studies [citing a major Florida study]; and «that where men are present, they are far more likely than women to be the source of children's injuries;» and that «there is no debate about who is the major source of child sexual abuse.»

If your read recently that Tim Horton's successfully defended themselves from a class action suit from their franchisees over their practice to prepare more food before shipping, you will understand that a franchise can set the rules and the courts will uphold the right of the franchise.

More than 1,000 «uninformed» and «unrepresented» homeowners in Monroe County, Pa., are expected to join in a recently filed class action suit for fraud against developer Gene Percudani, president of Raintree Homes; Dominick Stranieri, an independent appraiser in Strousburg, Pa.; and William Spaner of Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation.

Part of three big settlements the big three credit bureaus have made over credit reporting mistakes recently (the other two were with the AG of New York and the AG of Mississippi), Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have settled a 31 state class action suit; paying a fine and, more importantly, ensuring future errors are limited...