Sentences with phrase «of class action suits»

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

Andrew has been engaged by Fortune 100 companies in the defense of class action suits brought in state and federal courts throughout the country.

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

As mentioned, most observers now believe that ODR offers a viable way to settle high - volume, low - value claims, something the courts, outside of class action suits, have always struggled with.

The state scored 49th in the key element category of scientific and technical evidence, 45th in trial judges impartiality, and 45th in its treatment of class action suits and mass consolidation suits.

It's a comprehensive resource that follows thousands of class action suits and reduces a vast array of information into a digestible, easy to navigate format.

Let's hope that some of the class action suits showing on the above website (14 and counting) get approved and we end up on the winning side.

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.

In the meantime, Christopher Russell, the club owner jilted by Ashley Madison bots, is now part of a class action suit against Ashley Madison.

«This puff piece by an ex-member of Author Solutions» management team (which really, really should be flagged up top) also fails to mention something else pretty relevant: Author Solutions is currently the subject of a class action suit for deceptive practices.

The defendants are also negotiating with state attorneys general led by the AGs of Texas and Connecticut to reach a settlement that would enable the defendants to escape from the threat of the class action suit.

Please keep me in the loop if you know of a class action suit starting.

It would take me forever to share my full horror story with FedLoan, but I wanted to answer to the poster above - I would for sure be a part of a class action suit against them.

I may be interested in being part of a class action suit.

After careful analysis of the claim, Justice Perell decided not to exclude group 1 because although they could not pursue damages for wrongful dismissal, they were free to advance claims for the other aspect of the class action suit.

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

Three of these class actions suits were settled in 2015.

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.

Jeffrey Berk, a resident of Arizona, is the named plaintiff (face case) of the class action suit.

Not exact matches

Spotify was hit in late December by another lawsuit seeking a class - action suit filed by David Lowery, the leader of alternative rock bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven who is also an academic.

Shareholders have launched a class - action suit accusing Barrick of hiding problems at the mine, which the company denies.

The filmmakers filed a class action suit on behalf of people who paid to use the song, which became popular in the United States a century ago and has since spread globally.

But south of the border, U.S. regulators could apply a concept called «fraud on the market» — meaning if companies failed to disclose information affecting their stock price, plaintiffs could automatically launch a class - action suit.

The class action suit follows a separate, similar suit from a Florida man who said he lost hundreds of dollars when his credit card data was stolen after he visited a Wendy's.

The class action suit alleges that the media giant is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.

«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.

Tiger Brands said it has received notice of two class action suits against the firm, with the total amount claimed against the company estimated at 425 million rand.

(Earlier Chainsaw rid himself of a class - action shareholder suit for $ 15 million, without admitting culpability.)

The class action suit accuses the state's major utility of fraud and providing false information to regulators.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

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.

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

The class action suit contends that Microsoft cheated the plaintiffs represented — roughly 8,630 women engineers and IT specialists — out of 518 promotions and between $ 100 million and $ 238 million in pay between 2011 and 2016.

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 the same time, prominent class - action lawyers are bringing suits on behalf of patients.

This comes in the wake of a class - action suit filed against its parent company Avid Life Media in Canada last week.

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.

The proposed class - action suit alleges a racist culture at Tesla, unsafe factory conditions, and failure on the part of the company, including CEO Elon Musk personally, to prevent or investigate race - based harassment and discrimination there.

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.

After its scandal in which it created up to 2 million fraudulent accounts, Wells Fargo (WFC) asked a Federal District Court to order customers to private arbitration instead of the class - action suit they were pursuing.

-RRB- asked a Federal District Court to order customers to private arbitration instead of the class - action suit they were pursuing.

With the rule announced Monday, groups of consumers will be able to band together to form class - action suits in situations they may not otherwise have bothered with.

The suit also challenges DOL's oversight of IRAs as well as the rule's creation of a «private right of action» to bring class - action lawsuits under the best interest contract exemption, which Scalia called «one of the most troubling aspects» of BICE.

So when she bought the Just Crust — formerly the Upper Crust, another company against which she led a class action suit — she was in for a bit of an awakening.

The settlement will most likely reduce the size of the class - action suits filed against Spotify.

And last month, the company became the target of a class - action suit by users who said it was improperly accessing their data.

Their primary sales advantage over other financial products was higher advisor compensation, and these types of compensation differentials will be easy pickings for class - action suits.

Fortress, the largest company in the syndicated mortgage industry, and the Financial Services Commission of Ontario are named in a proposed class - action suit.

Class action securities suits based on false or misleading IPO documents have allowed investors to recover billions of dollars over the years.

The very threat of class action securities suits helps to keep companies honest, especially in their public filings.