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28 Dec 2006, 11:23 pm
Class actions galore: Class action plaintiffs: $5 discount on new 2-year cell-phone contract; lawyers, $5.5 million Class action plaintiffs: literally worthless coupon; lawyers, $975,000 Class action against LA Angels seeking $4,000/tote bag leads to Frivolous Lawsuit Night in Altoona When bringing a class action complaining about a missing 10 calories in the label, make sure your named plaintiff wasn't adding… [read post]
28 Mar 2016, 1:17 pm
The class action lawsuit was initially dismissed after the judge found that Ian F., the lead plaintiff, failed to allege at least one workweek in which he worked overtime and was not paid for those extra hours of work. [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 9:00 am
Defendant had argued that class certification would lead to excessive damages, but plaintiff argued that the proper response, even if that were so, was to certify the class and reduce every class member’s recovery equally. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 5:00 am
He highlighted how Taco Bell did this effectively when word spread that it was using filler in its taco meat, and the plaintiffs’ bar dropped a class action lawsuit. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 7:31 am
Suits brought pursuant to quasi-sovereign interests were, like class actions, representative, and dealt with harms that would probably not lead to individual lawsuits. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 5:31 am
Eight circuit courts of appeals rendered 19 notable decisions addressing various issues under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) in 2011, with the Seventh Circuit leading the way with five such decisions. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:13 pm
Most employers assume that if they successfully defeat a plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a wage and hour class action, the same class claims cannot be raised again in another case. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 12:50 am
This provision requires, among other things, that the plaintiff publish nationwide notice of the pending action, alerting members of the purported class that they can seek to be appointed lead plaintiff, and that the court thereafter appoint lead plaintiff based on the rebuttable presumption that the plaintiff with the largest alleged loss is the “most adequate plaintiff. [read post]
14 Apr 2009, 5:02 am
According to the allegations underlying the class action, defendant misclassified general managers, assistant managers and lead cooks, id. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 7:46 am
The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit and asked for certification of either a nationwide class or statewide class. [read post]
3 May 2013, 7:38 am
The court explained that refusing to recognize the claims of unnamed class members would lead to inefficiency because the class members would then be forced to file individual actions to preserve any state law claims whose statutes of limitations might otherwise expire while a federal class action is pending. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 3:11 pm
Among the Top 100 securities class action settlements, 91% had an institutional lead plaintiff. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 11:01 am
The deadline to apply to the court to be appointed as lead plaintiff, also called class representative, is July 15, 2019. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 6:25 am
The Washington Legal Foundation announces a new paper by Brian Anderson and Mel Schwing: "Two leading class action defense attorneys utilize a federal court judge's recent rejection of a settlement as a case study of how CAFA can deter defendants' ability to 'buy peace' through settlements" in cases where the claim is so meritless that it is only worth a small amount of money for the defendant to settle:While CAFA surely benefited class action… [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 5:00 am
Although it is a challenge for them, they often call adverse defense witnesses as their lead witnesses at trial. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 12:26 pm
Representation: A few lead plaintiffs (or class representatives) are chosen to represent the interests of the entire group. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 7:25 pm
Employers have to pay attention to the topic of travel expenses.This class action occurs as Starbucks fail to reimburse employees for their travel expenses.Jonelle Lewis, the lead plaintiff, worked in a retail management position at a Starbucks in California Amador County community of Martell. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 3:20 pm
RiskMetric Group’s Securities Class Actions Services sent out its SCAS 50 for the year 2007, listing the top 50 plaintiffs’ law firms, ranked by the total dollar amount of final securities class action settlements occurring in 2007 in which the firm served as lead or co-lead counsel. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 11:30 am
There is no doubt that the lawyers worked hard to achieve this result, as detailed in the Affidavit of lead counsel in support of the fee petition. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 8:19 am
Mel Weiss, the former king of the plaintiff's class action bar, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after plead guilty to charges that he and some of his partners obtained $251 million dollars in attorney fees, by paying $11 million in illegal kickbacks to lead plaintiffs. [read post]
