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The class action suit, which seeks to determine the constitutionality of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, is being led by the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

A class - action lawsuit filed recently alleges that Hebrew National's iconic hot dogs and other meats do not comport with the brand's claim to be kosher «as defined by the most stringent Jews who follow Orthodox Jewish law.»

As the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interestAs the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interestas a world society, undivided by race, class and national interests.

Publication of the editorial came on the same day as two other events of note, first, the release of a new book, Back in the Game, in which sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher and award - winning journalist Joanne Gerstner repeatedly and pointedly criticize the media for «irresponsible» reporting on CTE, and second, the filing of a class action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Pop Warner, USA Football, and the National Operating Committee on Standards For Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) which assumes as scientific fact that repetitive head impacts sustained in youth football «exposed» plaintiffs» sons to CTE, and led one to engage in «erratic and reckless behavior» resulting in his untimely death, and the other to take his own life.

The presence of the chemical PFOA in the Rensselaer County community's water supply has grabbed national headlines and is now being investigated as part of a federal class - action lawsuit.

Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

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Posts cover new trends in consumer class - action litigation as well as recent announcements from the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission and Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division.

In 2008, Gordon Wallace retained McKercher LLP to represent him as the leading plaintiff in a class action lawsuit on behalf of Prairie farmers against Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, and others for allegedly overcharging them for grain transportation over 25 years.

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.

With deep experience in product liability matters and class action litigation, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, as well as consumer fraud, he represents national and international companies, including manufacturers of motor vehicles, power tools, pharmaceuticals, clothing, glass products, outdoor power equipment, and industrial machinery.

«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.

(A separate class action brought by the National Veterans Legal Services Program and others is challenging PACER fees as excessive in violation of the E-Government Act of 2002.

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.

This morning, the National Law Journal is reporting on a class action filed in California, claiming that Facebook is using names and images of minors for advertising purposes without getting parents» permission as required under California law.

She regularly serves as national coordinating counsel and New York / New Jersey local counsel defending clients in mass tort litigation and class actions involving FDA and EPA regulated products.

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.

A third lawsuit against Canadian National Railway Co., in which it was alleged that some of the company's employees were misclassified as managers to avoid paying them overtime, has been denied class action certification.

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 firm has been retained in mass tort, class action, multi-district and market share litigation to defend and manage matters as national or regional trial counsel.

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

We have served as part of national coordinating counsel in class actions involving multiple states and federal districts, making us well - versed in the unique rules of class and mass tort actions.

He has also served as National Coordinating Liability Counsel for a major international insurance company with reference to the defense of products liability claims involving thousands of individual claimants and several class actions consolidated in Federal Multi District Litigation.

As part of the discovery meet and confer in a national - scope consumer class action lawsuit, the Defendants informed the Plaintiffs that they intended to produce ESI in TIFF format, with an accompanying TXT file which placed all of the different data fields from the original ESI into a single TEXT field.

Wystan M. Ackerman has a national appellate practice focusing on insurance coverage and class actions, regularly representing insurers and national insurance industry associations (as amicus curiae) on critical insurance coverage issues.

He served for many years as lead national coordinating and trial counsel defending a drug company in thousands of product liability cases as well as a series of economic - loss class actions.

We also defend title insurance underwriters in consumer class actions, and serve as national counsel for a major title insurance underwriter defending claims asserted under closing protection letters.

In 2014 and 2015, the National Law Journal cited the Harborview and RALI MBS in designating the firm an Elite Trial Law Firm and placing the firm on the Hot List; Law360 cited the RALI and Harborview cases in designating the firm one of «The Most Feared Plaintiffs Firms» in 2015, the third year in a row that Cohen Milstein received the designation; and in 2015, Law360 selected Cohen Milstein as the sole plaintiff firm to be chosen in two «Practice Groups of the Year» categories and one of only five class action law firms to be recognized, singling out the RALI and Harborview cases in the award.

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.

He advises large national corporations on complex litigation in the areas of product liability defense, mass tort defense, class action and multidistrict litigation, as well as regional companies and locally owned concerns, in court cases in both state and federal systems.

An April 2013 U.S. national opinion survey revealed that only 14 % of those who were part of a class action lawsuit reported having received something of value, such as a cashed check or redeemed coupon.

The publication highlights some of the firm's high - profile representations, including its role as lead national counsel for an international pharmaceutical company in hormone replacement therapy litigation, Wright's representation of Ford against allegations of unintended acceleration and faulty spark plugs, and Troyer's defense of Wells Fargo in a nationwide class action and an associated individual action and his representation of a manufacturing company in a toxic tort case.

Following the recent addition of former Seyfarth Shaw California Labor and Employment Practice Chair Ken Sulzer, Proskauer announced that Laura Reathaford has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as Special Counsel in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of its national Class / Collective Action and California Labor & Employment Law Groups.

A trial lawyer at Robinson + Cole since 1980 with a focus on insurance coverage and class action litigation, Mr. Goldman has tried approximately 30 cases to conclusion in a wide range of jurisdictions throughout the United States, has handled numerous federal and state appeals in multiple jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and has served as lead counsel in many cases that have had high national visibility.

He regularly acts as defence counsel in large Class Actions before the courts in Ontario, and before national and provincial Regulatory agencies, boards and tribunals.

And as the class action experience has shown, particularly with regard to national classes, melding a cohesive process among these courts can be a daunting challenge at times.

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).

Before joining Lateral Link, Marion practiced for almost 11 years in the commercial litigation department of an Atlanta - based Am Law 200 firm, where he focused on acting as national coordinating counsel for corporate clients involved in class actions and complex, high exposure litigation.

He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 50 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies.

Troutman and his team feel equally at home litigating multi-billion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters.

We often serve as coordinating counsel on state and national levels regarding class action and other mass action litigation.

Weil serves as national counsel for Sanofi in a putative consumer class action relating to the company's global recall of its epinephrine injection product, Auvi - Q.

Canadian courts continue to struggle with how to deal with national class actions, as demonstrated in an Ontario Court of Appeal decision on whether an Ontario judge could sit together with colleagues from other provinces to consider the Hepatitis C case.

Let's take USA Today as an example, since it has either the widest or second - widest circulation in the United States, and is the publication of choice for national class actions.

Glaspell also says while the legal system has dealt with many national class actions, the difficulty, as this case shows, is often how to implement them.

Bowman and Brooke is a national leader in handling mass tort actions — including class actions, as well as actions consolidated by the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and state judicial authorities.

Written By Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder & CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) A Florida law firm filed federal class action lawsuits in the same court against three separate national employers on the same day, with two of them naming the same consumer as the lead plaintiff, alleging violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting...

Just as RE-Insider predicted when the HUD settlement came out earlier this month, angry homeowners have filed a federal consumer fraud class action lawsuit against Fidelity National Title Insurance and other major title insurers alleging the companies kicked back fees to real estate agents for real estate settlement services.

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