Sentences with phrase «number of class action suits»

In recent years there have been a number of class action suits and settlements related to intern programs.

A number of class action suits have been filed on behalf of consumers in this case, and this latest suit may be too little too late to sway Cote in her ruling.

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«These companies, they don't want to be Craigslist,» says Shannon Liss - Riordan, a veteran labor lawyer spearheading a number of the biggest misclassification suits, including the Uber class action.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

Attorneys for an Illinois man who applied for a Starwood Preferred Guest - branded American Express credit card have filed a class action suit contending that American Express failed to give the plaintiff and others the promised number of hotel loyalty points.

This is the comedy of it; if Mann were to win against Steyn, imagine the number of people that could join a class action suit against Mann and PSU?

Well, now, the Teflon suits stand for yet another essential truth (besides untruths by ATRA, that is): without class actions, consumers can't gain access to the courts where a company profited by harming large numbers of people, each of whom have relatively small injuries.

Don has participated in the defence of a number of class action law suits, including products liability, insurance and health claims... (more)

This would make it resemble a kind of class action suit, with the plaintiff suing a large number of defendants, all with substantially identical facts being considered.

In a number of cases, class action suits are being utilized as the vehicle to bring legal actions against employers.