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22 May 2009, 5:45 am
Plaintiffs in the New Jersey class action supported the motion and agreed on centralization in that district; plaintiffs in the Connecticut class action opposed centralization or, alternatively, argued for transfer to the District of Connecticut. [read post]
22 May 2009, 1:51 am
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Court Sets 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Rule For Illegal-Alien Class-Action Plaintiffs
"In a case of first impression in New Jersey, an appeals court holds that defense counsel cannot ask the plaintiffs about their immigration status during discovery in a putative class action suit alleging an employer cheated its workers out of just compensation and overtime pay". [read post]
21 May 2009, 7:32 pm
(The harassment described in this case stretched back many years, but of course the company's liability would be limited to the statutory period leading up to the filing of Patino's legal charges.) [read post]
21 May 2009, 4:17 pm
" Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed law students can begin the process that would lead to the reformation of legal education. [read post]
21 May 2009, 2:13 pm
The requirement of unanimous plaintiff consent to aggregate settlements creates an ethical minefield for the other side and leads to a variety of problems, such as hold-out plaintiffs shaking down other plaintiffs for a bigger share of a limited settlement pot. [read post]
21 May 2009, 2:28 am
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Court Tosses $908,000 Class Action Fee, Calling Enhancement Bereft of Fact-Finding
"A state appeals court reverses a judge's $908,000 fee award to class action plaintiffs' lawyers in a case against car dealers accused of overcharging for title and registration fees, holding the judge made the award without findings that the lawyers deserved the fees and a 45 percent enhancement. [read post]
19 May 2009, 5:04 am
Moreover, “plaintiffs have alleged little more than that individuals on the Bioenvision board who may have been controlled by Perseus-Soros encouraged the other directors to take a step that could lead to a merger with Genzyme. [read post]
19 May 2009, 1:13 am
In tallying up our final grades, there wasn't a whole lot separating the leading contenders. [read post]
18 May 2009, 9:29 am
The lead plaintiff’s counsel in this case is Andrews Kurth which is normally a defense firm with hundreds of lawyers in multiple offices. [read post]
18 May 2009, 8:57 am
The problem with zinc that has lead to these denture cream lawsuits - that may be soon be consolidated in an MDL (class action for discovery) is that excessive amounts of zinc can cause injury. [read post]
18 May 2009, 3:15 am
Few certified class actions go to jury verdict (they settle), and, frequently, cases in which class certification is denied are dismissed without even named plaintiffs’ claims being adjudicated. [read post]
15 May 2009, 4:56 pm
Indeed, in what I think is a completely unrelated move, this week a group of plaintiffs' lawyers initiated two class action trademark lawsuits against Google (1, 2). [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:21 am
I suspect it has something to do with trying to ensure lead dog position if/when a judge consolidates multiple copycat lawsuits from other plaintiffs' lawyers. [read post]
15 May 2009, 7:49 am
A summary of additional civil cases, as well as Judge Sotomayor’s leading criminal law opinions will follow. [read post]
13 May 2009, 1:31 am
Other leading tech companies also are more willing to go to trial in patent suits these days. [read post]
11 May 2009, 2:57 am
Rakoff had ordered distribution of the settlement funds to the class plaintiffs through a class action settlement administrator, AB Data. [read post]
8 May 2009, 4:00 am
It leads to nothing but trouble. [read post]
7 May 2009, 9:30 pm
Burkhard Hess: The settlement concerns a class action lawsuit between Google and - as plaintiffs - the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers as well as individual authors and publishers about books scanned for the Google Book Search without the authors’ consent. [read post]
7 May 2009, 5:11 am
And finally, the bankruptcy court denied the request by plaintiffs in the Carrera class action to lift the automatic stay, in part because the cost of litigation would “lead[] to an unnecessary drain on the Debtors’ resources and an untimely distraction from the reorganization process. [read post]
7 May 2009, 1:04 am
Judge Blasts Plaintiffs Firm Over Asbestos Suit
The National Law Journal
A Los Angeles judge has blasted one of the nation's leading plaintiffs firms in asbestos litigation for trying to get the upper hand in a case through what he called a "type of judicially sanctioned extortion. [read post]
