Sentences with phrase «recent class action case»

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The upshot is that Koh wants the case to proceed further and for the class action lawyers to push Google for recent documents about how the email scanning process really works.

He said that compared to other cases, including a recent class action suit that was filed in California and named the producer personally, his office is looking at the company as a whole.

They also cover recent antitrust class action lawsuits and issues that arise in other federal criminal cases.

Together with the certification of classes in recent overtime actions, the IQT case provides a further example of the breadth of class proceedings that courts will certify in the employment arena.

In the recent case of Heller v. Uber Technologies Inc., the Court dealt with a case in which Mr. Heller, an Uber food delivery driver, attempted to bring a class action on behalf of all Uber drivers against Uber.

Recent cases of note include the Nortel cross-border insolvency, a Barrick Gold mining dispute, Club Resorts Ltd. v. Van Breda, the Cannon v. ParkLane class action, Aldo Group Inc. v. Moneris, and Daniels v. Canada.

Actively monitor and advise clients on new legislation, regulation and case law trends, globally, related to supply chains, outsourcing, procurement, false advertising and product safety, among other issues, including recent class actions brought under the California Supply Chain Transparency Act and the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015

In a separate case, Dorsey routinely needed to utilize the Ringtail production module to systematically cull and isolate relevant documents and database records in response to aggressive discovery tactics advanced in relation to class certification in the recent federal action concerning the U.S. subsidiary of the global technology concern.

PIAC is also concerned with the recent practice of recovering class action costs by increasing utility rates in Ontario, which has been approved for Enbridge in the Consumers Gas Co. case and is pending approval for Toronto Hydro and other municipal utilities in Ontario.

He specializes in banking, insolvency, fraud and directors» misfeasance cases and has developed a niche area of practice, in recent years, relating to the taking of evidence in London for use in US antitrust and securities class actions.

The proposed class action, filed in Illinois in 2016, was one of hundreds of cases filed that year alone in a recent surge in food consumer class action litigation.

Brad will moderate a panel, titled «Hot Topics in Private Securities: Lessons Learned and Practice Tips From Recent Cases,» which will address, among other topics, key considerations in bringing, defending and resolving a securities class action, the impact of regulatory investigations or actions on litigation strategy and recent case law developRecent Cases,» which will address, among other topics, key considerations in bringing, defending and resolving a securities class action, the impact of regulatory investigations or actions on litigation strategy and recent case law developrecent case law developments.

Richard has also been defense counsel in the two most significant commodity futures manipulation class actions of recent decades: the silver market cases and the copper market cases.

Despite the findings in Holland's Case and the recent class - action lawsuit against the CIBC, claiming overtime pay for employees who have worked more than eight hours in a day or were «forced» to work through lunch, employees shouldn't assume they too are entitled to overtime pay.

We provide legal news on the most recent litigated business and commercial cases including antitrust, banking and financial institutions, construction, complex disputes / class actions involving multi-parties and multi-jurisdictions, communications, employment law, environmental actions, government enforcement defense, insurance, intellectual property, mergers and business combinations, products liability, professional liability, real estate and development, environmental, securities enforcement, white collar criminal actions, and trust and estate litigation.

Mr. Ackerman's portion of the presentation focused on recent developments in class action litigation against insurers, including cases involving depreciation of labor costs, depreciation in California, application of deductibles, diminution in value on property insurance claims, Connecticut faulty concrete foundation litigation, and auto insurance cases involving the Medicare Secondary Payer Act.

Recent notable reported cases include R (Miller and Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5 (acting for one of the interested parties in the Article 50 litigation at both Divisional Court and Supreme Court levels) and Dorothy Gibson v Pride Mobility Products Ltd [2017] CAT 9 (acting for the respondent in the first opt - out class action in UK competition proceedings).

He gives the law a grade of «A» or thereabouts in tackling dubious expert testimony (with the Daubert revolution), in preventing the unwarranted extension of class action concepts from financial - injury cases to the realm of personal injury, and — a much newer development — in introducing serious scrutiny of claims at the pleading stage through the Supreme Court's recent Twombly and Iqbal decisions.

The class action is the latest of a number of transvaginal mesh cases that have been proposed in recent years against different manufacturers.

Two recent high - profile class action cases make clear the need for employers to ensure, among other requirements, that the process used to gain consent from employees and candidates prior to initiating a background check is in line with FCRA rules.

The recent could - be class action case against Advance Auto exemplifies what can happen if... Read more»

The recent could - be class action case against Advance Auto exemplifies what can happen if a company's background screening processes are believed to be out of compliance.

Employers should not «let their guard down about complying with background screening rules» such as the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) despite recent court rulings such as the dismissal of a proposed FCRA class action lawsuit against transportation network company Lyft, Inc. by a federal judge who cited a decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Spokeo, Inc. v Robins as a reason for the decision, according to an article on the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) website.

In a recent example, a class action case filed against one of the nation's top 10 banks on behalf of an employee alleging violations of the FCRA shows that legal compliance is a critical part of any background screening program.

Another recent decision, although also not a real estate case, involves a class action and certification by the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the concept involved is important to all professionals.

Joining a recent judicial trend, the Eleventh Circuit has overruled its earlier decision in the Culpepper case that had allowed a class - action lawsuit to proceed for payment of a yield - spread premium by a mortgage lender to a mortgage broker.