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3 Nov 2014, 2:24 pm by Gerald Maatman, Jr.
This afternoon six advocacy groups representing the interests of workers and plaintiffs’ class action lawyers filed an amicus brief with the U.S. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 9:49 am by Don T. Hibner, Jr.
The multidistrict litigation over alleged price fixing in the mushroom market is one of many antitrust class actions pending against cooperatives in various agricultural industries throughout the United States. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 7:42 am by Michael J. Riccobono
At the outset of his employment, Plaintiff was required to attend two days of in-class safety training and two weeks of “on-road” on-the-job training. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:58 am by Joy Waltemath
Current and former employees of Amgen, Inc., a biotech company that develops pharmaceutical drugs, filed a class action under ERISA after their employer-sponsored pension plans lost significant value due to concerns about the safety of certain Amgen drugs. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 3:55 am by Kevin LaCroix
As discussed here, in its August 2014 decision in the securities class action lawsuit involving Porsche, the Second Circuit held that a domestic transaction is a necessary but not necessarily a sufficient condition for a claim to fall within the territorial scope of Section 10(b). [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 1:29 pm by Walter Olson
Going to trial at all in a class action representing 150,000 Ohio customers was considered highly risky for the company, but a jury returned a defense verdict finding no defect. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 11:31 am
 Including class action allegations as well.EverBank's principal defense is paragraph 1.17 of the relevant agreement. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 2:22 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  And plaintiffs’ attorneys have increasingly sought to certify multi-state employment class actions. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 2:08 am by Andrew Trask
 This is the first defense-side argument for a new way of looking at class aggregation, and that alone makes it worthy of study. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 6:19 am
The class failed the typicality requirement because defendant had a unique defense against the managers in the class: that if they had required other class members to work off-the-clock, they violated defendant’s policies. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 3:26 am by Broc Romanek
This sort of “loser pays” fee-shifting is an exception to the general rule in the United States that each side bears its own costs of litigating – and it effectively precludes shareholder class actions suits because investors and their law firms don’t want to risk paying defendants’ legal fees. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 9:18 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
The case is beneficial to employers facing putative class actions, as it confirms that there is no stringent standard in terms of what defense counsel must include in the Notice of Rights to employees. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 8:25 am by David Russcol
You have the right know the charges and evidence against you, and have the right to present a thorough defense. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 11:03 am by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
The memo from the Administrative Office of the Courts warns that magistrates who “willfully omit, neglect or refuse to discharge any of” their duties “shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 4:22 pm
Our dissenting colleague correctly notes that, in 2007, the Legislature created the new crime of aggravated vehicular homicide, a class B felony. [read post]