Sentences with phrase «of class action cases»

This is consistent with the increasing complexity of class action cases, and contrasts with a decline in the total number of law firms used between 2012 and 2013.

Below is a list of just some of the class action cases that ASWT is currently litigating or investigating.

Matters of note include the coordination of multiparty defense in a wrongful death action arising from a construction accident, arbitration of a complex network agreement between healthcare organizations, and defense of class action cases brought by uninsured patients against a chain of hospitals.

He joined the appeal court in April 2013 after five years on the Ontario Superior Court bench in Toronto where he had a reputation for handling a good share of class action cases.

Not exact matches

The prospect of winning large damages in a class action can be the only way for consumers to find lawyers to take their cases, so a denial of this certification can effectively end some lawsuits.

They also hope to certify their case as a class action, presuming that the discrimination they describe affected a lot of other women employees as well.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen asked if there was a «tension or inconsistency» for Uber to argue that every single one of its drivers is an independent contractor, yet to also argue that the legal issues in the case are so specific to each driver that it can't be decided as a class action.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

More recently, however, a few cases in the U.S. of much higher pay have drawn some criticism from shareholders (including several class action lawsuits).

If a court decides that any provision of this paragraph is invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be severed and the other parts of this paragraph (and the remainder of these terms) will continue to apply, but in no case shall either you or Daily Harvest be permitted to participate in a class action lawsuit or class - wide arbitration..

Among his other accomplishments, he led a group of 20 law firms that prosecuted cutting - edge class action cases against financial institutions, such as Countrywide, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase, concerning destructive negative amortization loans that unknowingly caused borrowers to assume tens of thousands of dollars of additional debt.

Her notable cases also include Ford Spark Plugs, as well as multiple cases against Hyundai for a dangerous safety defect in the side air bag system of its Tiburon model vehicles, as well as class - action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor America and Kia Motor Company after regulators announced the companies overstated the fuel economy for many vehicles they sold in the United States, culminating in a settlement worth more than $ 255 million.

Remington is also the target of another high - profile case, a federal class - action lawsuit claiming that trigger defects have caused some of its shotguns to accidentally discharge.

Behind the scenes, though, an explosive court case was brewing: a proposed $ 1.95 - billion class action lawsuit, alleging that the company's historic shift to frozen products had taken a significant bite out of store owners» cash registers.

At issue in the case is whether SLUSA divests state courts of jurisdiction over class actions asserting claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933 (e.g., claims alleging a material misstatement in a registration statement).

The case was eventually granted class - action status in July 2012, allowing Liss - Riordan to represent all of the aggrieved workers.

The two sides are trading briefs in the case, but the government made it clear this week that Thrivent should not worry about class action remaining a part of the rule.

The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class - action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.

A class - action lawsuit means the Facebook could be sued by millions of US users and the damages would cost the company billions of dollars if the company loses the case.

The class action case (see below), filed with the Southern District Court of Florida on Jan. 24, alleges that BitConnect issued cryptocurrency tokens that were effectively unregistered securities -LSB-...]

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

Similarly, several leaders of Sovereign Grace Ministries were named in a class - action lawsuit alleging they failed to report multiple cases of child sex abuse within the ministry, urging the children who had been abused to «reconcile» with their abusers and counseling the abusers on how to avoid investigation and arrest.

Investor advocate, Mark Elliott — who recently won a class action on behalf of investors in Downer EDI — lodged the claim on behalf of investor John Webster, who will act as «lead plaintiff» in the case on behalf of other investors who join the action.

He litigated major law reform and class action cases in the federal court of appeals and Supreme Court on Social Security, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, SNAP / Food Stamps and other public benefits issues, and the rights of children born out of wedlock.

A similar case was recently filed in California (by the same class action firm - Milberg) against Frito - Lay — the snacks division of food and beverage giant PepsiCo.

The group, which seeks class - action status for its case, is asking California to ban all marketing of Happy Meal toys.

So last month, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it was filing a class action lawsuit to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, the fierce and ugly backlash against the mother of two who was brave enough to attach her name to the case was predictable.

With the scope of the health risks still unclear, a class - action case against New York City, in connection with the failure to conduct lead inspections in public housing, is now being prepared by a lead lawyer for families suing over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich..

Attorneys for New York City students with autism and other disabilities claimed a major victory this week, after a federal judge granted class action status to a case that alleged the denial of education services.

In each case, the Bush provisions attempted to protect certain classes of persons from actions that would appreciably harm them.

In the case of the conscience regulations, again the Bush provisions attempted to protect a class of persons — medical and healthcare professionals — from demands that would have implicated them in actions they deemed wrong on moral and religious grounds.

While their argument got approved to go to trial in New York, the judge did refuse to certify a nationwide class - action lawsuit, citing that there were too many differences in the laws of individual states in regard to this particular case.

A judge in California has ordered eHarmony and the plaintiffs of a class action discrimination case into mediation.

This is the case where Thomas Wong and others, initiated a class action lawsuit against the dating site True.com about their auto billing and renewal practices of memberships.

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Cast: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek, Richard Jenkins, Sean Bean, Thomas Curtis, Jeremy Renner, Elle Peterson, James Cada, Michelle Monaghan, Xander Berkeley, Chris Mulkey Director: Niki Caro Screenplay: Michael Seitzman (inspired by events in the book, «Class Action: The Story of Lois Jensen and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law» by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler) Review published December 15, 2005

This report summarizes information from Research fo Action's evaluation of the second year of the Reduced Class Size / Balanced Literacy (RCS / EBL) Initiative, provides two case studies of elementary classrooms where the initiative was being implemented, and a summary of survey results about participation, opinions and attidutes of PEF Balanced Literacy interns.

In 1974 the case Lau v. Nichols, a class - action suit brought on behalf of Chinese students from San Francisco, went to the Supreme Court.

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.

Just this week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the district court's certification of the case as a class action, and told the district court judge he needs to decide whether Google's snippets of text could be considered «fair use.»

She is a former Newsweek White House correspondent, and the author (with Laura Leedy Gansler) of Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law -LRB-... (more)

«We thought that Judge Cote's ruling was spot on, especially when she noted that we've gone above and beyond in illustrating the legitimacy of our case,» said Steve Berman, lead counsel representing consumers in the nationwide class action and managing partner of Hagens Berman, a consumer - rights law firm.

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...]

Judge Cote will preside over the class action suit brought by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a Seattle law firm, as well as the antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice.

Requiring this case to be litigated on an individual basis would risk disparate results in nearly identical suits and exponentially increase the cost of litigation... Class action, by contrast, would achieve economies of time and effort, resolving common legal and factual issues «without sacrificing procedural fairness or bringing about other undesirable results.»

On Friday Macmillan actually agreed to settle three lawsuits all at once — the ebook pricing case brought by the Department of Justice, but also the parallel case led by a consortium of attorneys general for the states and even the class - action case filed on behalf of consumers.

To get a broad overview of this class action in the making, we first breakdown the case as it's presented in the complaint.

The case is relatively broken down into the following segments: Introduction, Market Power over Ebook Sales, Structure of the Industry, Unlawful Agreement to Restrain Trade or Commerce, Antitrust Injury, Nationwide Federal Purchaser Class, Nationwide California Law Class, Indirect Purchaser Class Action Allegations.