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18 Feb 2008, 3:38 pm
Last year, the Digital First Amendment class at Stanford reported about the new Wikileaks project and one team even made the legal issues surrounding wikileaks the topic of their final project. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 11:53 am
He said that the agency has 22 staff training programs in place and that many areas -- safety and education, for example -- are better than they used to be.But the plaintiffs' court filing documented a long list of problems:Students do not attend classes the required four hours a day; they often are removed from classrooms for misbehaving, for work assignments or for counseling. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 8:48 am
As the room stilled, Akif, who is a U.S. born citizen and the lead plaintiff in a federal class action suit brought by the ACLU of Illinois, described one border stop that occurred when he, his wife and two young children were returning to the U.S. by car after visiting family in Toronto, Canada. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 5:08 am
Curious, I called the plaintiff's firm and asked the lead lawyer how he intended to collect from the Chinese company should he prevail. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 12:14 am
I read this recent opinion from the Fifth Circuit about a fee allocation among plaintiffs' counsel in a class acton settlement. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 4:30 am
According to the court, “even if an intervening plaintiff always commences a new action for purposes of the statute of limitations . . . we see no reason why such a rule leads inevitably to the conclusion that an intervening plaintiff commences a new action for purposes of a newly enacted statute expanding federal subject matter jurisdiction such as CAFA. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 4:35 pm
Regis Corporation, plaintiff filed a putative class action lawsuit alleging that by issuing paychecks drawn on an Illinois bank, Regis violated Labor Code section 212, which requires that California paychecks be "payable in cash, on demand, without discount, at some established place of business in the state, the name and address of which must appear on the instrument. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 12:14 am
The conspiracy at Lerach's former firm, Milberg Weiss, to kick back fees to class action name plaintiffs deprived other law firms "who played by the rules" a fair shot at lead counsel in securities cases, Walter said. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 12:06 am
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which is known for handling patent cases quickly, making it a popular venue for plaintiffs. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 6:30 am
Over decades, the class-action titan paid secret kickbacks to pliant "representative" plaintiffs, then systematically falsified the nature of his relations to those plaintiffs the better to deceive judges, opponents, competing class action lawyers, and class members. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 5:54 am
"Leading Class-Action Lawyer Is Sentenced to Two Years in Kickback Scheme": The New York Times contains this article today. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 4:18 am
In September 2007, lead plaintiff (New York Teachers Retirement System) filed a consolidated class action complaint; defense attorneys moved to dismiss various class action claims, id. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 11:20 pm
Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC, is a limited liability company formed under the laws of Delaware, and was the lead plaintiff in the District Court. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 4:16 pm
William Lerach became the first partner from law firm Milberg Weiss to be sentenced for his role in paying kickbacks to representative plaintiffs in class actions in which the firm served as lead counsel. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:13 pm
As reported in the Recorder:"After criticizing a plea deal, Los Angeles federal Judge John Walter accepted it, but sentenced star plaintiff attorney William Lerach to the highest term under the agreement -- 24 months in federal prison.Walter hammered prosecutors in court Monday about why they cut the deal with Lerach, who pleaded guilty in connection with kickbacks to lead plaintiffs of his former law firm, now known as Milberg Weiss. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 4:14 am
Failure to wear the required equipment may lead to discipline, id. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:00 am
$4.1 Million Fees Award Upheld in Kia Class Action
The Legal Intelligencer
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld $4.1 million in plaintiffs attorney fees awarded by a Philadelphia judge in a Kia Motors faulty-brake class action. [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 11:01 pm
I read through every single word of the transcript, and it was painful -- painful because Jim Hood thoroughly beclowned himself. [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 9:59 pm
"A prominent class-action lawyer facing sentencing today for secretly paying plaintiffs to file securities lawsuits, William Lerach, is suggesting that the under-the-table practice was widespread and was not isolated to the firm he helped run for decades, Milberg Weiss. ... [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]
