Sentences with phrase «of class action suits brought»

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

The five top corporations are presently involved in class - action suits brought by wheat farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who accuse them of rigging grain prices.

CPC settle class - action suit: CPC International Inc. has agreed to settle, for $ 7 million, a federal antitrust class - action suit brought against it on behalf of customers for high fructose corn syrup.

Two Canadian firms said last week that they were bringing a class - action suit against Avid seeking upwards of $ 760M in damages.

In the Central District of California, attorneys filed a similar suit and asked the court to grant class - action status so other members impacted by the «nightmare» brought on by hackers can see relief.

I guess in the actual class action suit — and before I get too far ahead of myself, North Country ostensibly deals with the first class action sexual harassment lawsuit brought against a major Union company — a few of the women actually testified against the whistleblower.

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 class - action suit brought on behalf of Chinese students from San Francisco, went to the Supreme Court.

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.»

Most people don't know that a class action suit was brought against the three credit bureaus in 2005 because of erroneous reporting of bankruptcy accounts.

A class action suit was brought against the three credit bureaus in 2005 because of erroneous reporting of bankruptcy accounts (there were insufficient processes and systems in place to ensure accurate reporting).

The Met Settles Ambiguity over its «Recommended Donation» The Metropolitan Museum has settled a three - year - old class action suit brought by plaintiffs who claimed its «recommended admission» of $ 25 to enter its galleries was misleading to the public.

Imagine, for a moment, if the entire population of New Orleans brought suit against Peabody, Arch Coal, and ExxonMobil as a class action for their part emitting CO2 that «created» Hurricane Katrina, or all the families who lost family members in Katrina charged the companies with wrongful death lawsuits.

Defending metal producer Timminco Ltd. against fraud allegations before the Ontario Court of Appeal last year, he helped set an important precedent barring plaintiffs from bringing secondary - market class action suits if they failed to get leave to appeal within three years.

Is the state in which the class action suit is brought is home to the headquarters of the US manufacturer (or a state where the manufacturer has a substantial equivalent to a headquarters)?

A class action suit is a case brought against a company whose actions have damaged a group of people in a similar way.

On October 28, 1964, after waiting almost a year for a response to their motion, the ACLU attorneys brought a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Employers have to keep a close eye on this case, since the decision may shift the class action landscape in terms of the ability of employees to bring suit against a company.

A minority of courts say that a consumer class action plaintiff has standing to get injunctive relief to prevent false advertising even though — by virtue of bringing the suit — he must know about the alleged deception and can't be harmed by it a second time.

When a large group of individuals has been wronged or harmed, but no one person has enough economic incentive to bring suit on his or her own, class action litigation is useful.

The complaint in the civil suit against Maggio claimed that Maggio had abused the public trust, which is a class D felony in Arkansas, and that this abuse made him liable to Ms. Bull's estate under the statute that allows victims of a felony to bring a civil action; that Maggio breached a fiduciary duty to the plaintiffs by engaging in conduct that violated certain judicial and statutory rules; that Maggio engaged in a civil conspiracy with Gilbert Baker and Michael Morton; and that Maggio acted in concert with Morton and Baker.

On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, the Canadian Press reported that a Montreal man filed a motion for leave to bring a class action suit against the Community of the Clerics of St. Viateur in Montreal and the Raymond - Dewar Institute (also known as the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb) and its priests.

Provides immunity for businesses and government agencies who follow specified procedures; provides exclusive remedy in contract, if no written contract: limits recovery to direct economic damages; bars recovery for damages which plaintiff could have avoided or mitigated; requires mediation; prohibits class actions against government agencies; requires each class member has a loss of $ 50,000 to bring a class action; provides liability protection for directors and officers; and requires filing of suit by March 1, 2002.

A second case involves what is called a «reverse class action law suit» brought by Voltage Pictures against an as - yet unidentified group of defendants for copyright violation related to the downloading of films in which Voltage holds copyright.

A class action suit has been brought against Sino - Forest Corp., adding yet another element to the drama playing out with what was considered one of the biggest Canadian - based forest products companies operating overseas.

Two new issues, related but readily distinguishable, have arisen in the past few months, about the residential school experience, neither of which were public knowledge at the time of the apology and certainly not at the times of the out - of - court settlement that was negotiated against a class action law suit brought against the Government and the churches.

Our powerful blend of litigation and arbitration experience brings expertise to all sides of complex disputes, including successfully defending clients against private, government, and class action suits and representing plaintiffs in major cases of first impression.

«What Trump has done has created a huge hole; there's no privacy protection,» said Jay Edelson, founder and CEO of Edelson PC, a Chicago - based class - action law firm focused on electronic privacy issues that has brought suit against everyone from Facebook to Apple.

Coincheck is in the news again as another class action suit has been brought against the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange in the aftermath of the January NEM heist.

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

A class action suit allows the claims of numerous potential plaintiffs to be heard in one legal case, rather than separate legal actions that each person would have to bring.

The funding is for the MLS's continued defense of that case; it comes on top of money NAR had previously put into the case and after another plaintiff filed suit and sought to bring the suit as a class action.

In Bloom v. Martin, several borrowers (Borrowers) brought a class action suit against mortgage lenders alleging violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (RESPA).