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14 Aug 2010, 5:06 am
Distribution of Unclaimed Class Action Settlement Funds to Non-Profit Organization Unconnected to Harm Suffered by Class Members Inappropriate Massachusetts Federal Court Holds Plaintiff filed a putative class action against American Tower Corp. alleging violations of federal securities laws and purported to be brought on behalf of “members of the public who were harmed by the securities fraud. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 4:54 am
Distribution of Unclaimed Class Action Settlement Funds to Non-Profit Organization Unconnected to Harm Suffered by Class Members Inappropriate Massachusetts Federal Court Holds Plaintiff filed a putative class action against American Tower Corp. alleging violations of federal securities laws and purported to be brought on behalf of “members of the public who were harmed by the securities fraud. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 5:13 am
Responding plaintiffs in other New Jersey class actions supported the motion; responding parties in Pennsylvania class actions, supported the motion but requested transfer to Pennsylvania; responding parties in Texas class actions, together with class actions pending in other states, requested transfer to Texas; still other responding parties requested transfer to Illinois or South Carolina. [read post]
2 Jan 2009, 4:35 am
Plaintiff in one of the Florida class actions filed a motion with the Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) requesting centralization of the class actions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 4:30 am by Laura Simons
Eleven lawsuits against lock industry leader Kaba Corporation, a Swiss company with operations in North Carolina, have been consolidated into one potential class-action lawsuit in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 9:05 pm
Class Action Complaint Alleging Securities Fraud Violations Arising from Disclosures Concerning Drug under Development Failed to State Claims under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Rule 10b-5 New York Federal Court Holds Plaintiffs filed a putative class action against French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis and certain individual defendants alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; specifically, the class… [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 8:05 pm
Class Action Complaint Alleging Securities Fraud Failed to Adequately Plead Misrepresentation or Scienter under Heightened Pleading Requirements Established by Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) New Jersey Federal Court Holds Plaintiffs filed a putative class action against Heartland Payment Systems and others alleging violations of federal securities laws; specifically, the class action complaint alleged that defendants concealed… [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 5:25 am
Defense attorneys moved to compel arbitration based on another unilateral revision to the service contract that added, without notice to customers, an arbitration clause as well as a class action waiver. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 5:06 am
§ 1446(b) and that the draft class action complaints established federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), and “[f]earing that the thirty-day deadline would expire before plaintiffs actually filed the amended complaints,” defense attorneys removed the lawsuits to federal court. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 10:24 am by Peter S. Lubin and Patrick Austermuehle
Lubin Austermuehle’s Chicago class action defense attorneys have successfully defended clients against putative class action lawsuits by picking off the named plaintiffs. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:27 am
” _Id._ Defense attorneys moved to dismiss the class actions; the district court found that the _Newsome_ class action allegations were inadequate to state claims, but that the _O’Bannon_ class action adequately alleged violations of the Sherman Act. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 10:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
On the same day that the Supreme Court hears arguments in the Defense of Marriage Act case, the highest court in the land has issued a decision (PDF) in a class-action lawsuit involving a group of Comcast customers in Philadelphia. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 4:49 am
Defense attorneys removed the class action to federal court on grounds of diversity; the district court denied plaintiff’s motion to remand the class action to state court under the “local controversy exception” to the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 11:27 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
” The court stated that class counsel “must think that like most class actions suits this one would not be tried -- that if we ordered a class or classes certified DirectSat would settle. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 4:28 am
In order to prepare its defense against the class action claims, defense attorneys requested production of all documents plaintiff obtained from “publicly available sources” prior to filing suit, id., at *3. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 8:00 am
Class actions are useful when a number of plaintiffs have similar injuries stemming from a similar (or, in mass disasters, identical) incident and the expected defenses are also similar. [read post]