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13 Feb 2018, 4:22 pm
Courts and in the 1990s and early 2000s various leading cases such as Nordstrom and Caterpillar produced doctrines such as the larger settlement rule. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 8:00 am
The plaintiff both sought additional discovery (that motion was denied) and hired a survey expert in an effort to poll the class members. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 4:26 pm
Plaintiffs filed a total of 88 securities class action lawsuits against companies in the life sciences sector during 2017, representing a 31.3% increase from 2016’s 67 actions against life sciences companies and a 225.9% increase from 2012’s 27 actions. [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 2:39 pm
We also show that the primary source of litigation against small biopharma firms is a group of plaintiffs’ law firms that we described in an earlier post as “emerging firms. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 5:55 pm
On the other hand, a victory for plaintiffs could lead to even higher filing rates for IPO suits. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 12:41 pm
The lead plaintiff further alleged that the driver whose vehicle struck hers was an underinsured motorist at the time of the accident and that the underinsured driver’s insurance company paid the lead plaintiff $25,000 following the accident. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 7:21 am
Even if class certification is possible in such a case — and there are many barriers to certification — there is no reason a plaintiff should be required to bring a class action to vindicate her individual constitutional rights. [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 9:00 am
Marcus Vaughn is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that was filed against Tesla in Alameda County Superior Court in November. [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 7:52 am
The Gentry plaintiffs, however, opposed certification of the nationwide class and sought remand of their case to Virginia. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 7:32 pm
Plaintiffs’ Law Firms’ Involvement in the Increase: The growth in the number of core filings since 2011 coincided with the activity of three plaintiff law firms that “have increasingly been involved in securities class actions. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 10:09 am
The plaintiffs represent a proposed class of hundreds of actresses who claim they suffered sexual assault, false imprisonment, battery, rape and other “predicate acts. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 8:50 am
The agreement will require the insurance giant to pay over $17 million into a settlement fund, the majority of which will be distributed to members of the affected class and to develop and implement a “best practices” policy for the use of members’ protected health information (PHI), to bring an end to a class-action lawsuit filed in August 2016 by pseudonymous plaintiff Andrew Beckett (a nod to Tom Hanks’ lead character in 1993’s… [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 2:35 pm
The ruling stemmed from a class action in which plaintiffs alleged that the defendant had stolen their money and fled to China. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 11:14 am
Indeed, Google itself is defending a putative class action alleging that the cloud-based Google Photos service violated BIPA by automatically uploading plaintiffs’ mobile photos and allegedly scanning them to create unique face templates (or “faceprints”) for subsequent photo-tagging without consent. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 12:59 pm
As a worker at the facility, lead plaintiff Romeo Palma performed tasks such as “assisting with packaging and fulfillment of internet merchandise orders for shipment. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 9:55 am
The lack of precise responsibility can lead to a vacuum in leadership. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 7:47 am
The Report also analyzes the leading class action settlements for 2017 for employment discrimination, wage & hour, ERISA class actions, and statutory workplace laws, as well as settlements of government enforcement actions, both with respect to monetary values and injunctive relief provisions. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 5:05 pm
A copy of the plaintiff’s complaint can be found here. [read post]
6 Jan 2018, 10:08 pm
As we have noted previously in this space, the Glatt court not only adopted a more employer-friendly test than the DOL and the plaintiffs’ bar had advocated; it also expressed grave doubts about whether lawsuits by interns would be suitable for class or collective action treatment. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 7:17 am
This law is taught to every first-year law student in a class called torts, which covers many personal injury actions. [read post]
