May 1, 2016


U.S. Regulator Seeks Return of Class Action Suits Against Credit Cards, Banks

New rules proposed on Thursday by a U.S. consumer watchdog would block credit card companies, banks and other firms from forcing customers to waive their rights to join class action lawsuits and settle disputes only through arbitration. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said financial firms should be barred from using fine print in contracts that mandates arbitration instead …


United Online (UNTD) Alert: Johnson & Weaver, LLP Launches an Investigation Into the Fairness of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of United Online, Inc.; Are Shareholders Getting a Fair Price?

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United Online provides consumer products and services over the Internet in the United States and internationally. On May 4, 2016, United Online announced it had signed a definitive merger agreement with B. Riley. Under the terms of the agreement, United Online shareholders will receive $11.00 in cash for each share held.


Genovese Mob Snitch Allowed to Pursue Lawsuit Against Feds

​A wannabe-wiseguy who turned government stool pigeon was reduced to tears Thursday when a Post reporter told him his lawsuit against the feds got a thumbs up from a judge. Genovese mobster-turned-FBI informant Joseph Barone​, 54,​ ​sobbed tears of joy when told he’d been ​given the green​ ​light to sue the feds for prosecuting him in a murder-for-hire that he claims was all part of his …



Class Action by Hilary Achauer

Affiliate owners share the various ways they’ve tailored the group-class model to create strong businesses that produce fitter clients. Johnny DiGregorio opened CrossFit Pasadena in 2008. What started as a small community grew into a group of more than 240 members training in a 5,600-square-foot gym.


Lawsuit Over Bangladesh Garment Factory Collapse Dismissed

A Delaware judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against three major U.S. clothing retailers after the 2013 collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people. An injured worker and a man whose wife died in the collapse lodged the complaint last year against Wal-Mart Stores, J.C. Penney and the Children’s Place. The lawsuit claimed the companies failed to ensure safe …


Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP and Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP Announce Proposed Settlement of Class Action in the in Re Doral Financial Corporation Securities Litigation

IN RE DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION SECURITIES LITIGATION, CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:14-CV-01393-GAG, CLASS ACTION, SUMMARY NOTICE This Document Relates To: ALL ACTIONS. TO: ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES WHO PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED THE COMMON STOCK OF DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION (“DORAL”) DURING THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 2, 2012 THROUGH AND INCLUDING MAY 1, 2014, AND WERE ALLEGEDLY DAMAGED THEREBY YOU ARE …


Proposed Consumer Class Action Rules Don’t Cover Everybody

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has unveiled a proposed new rule on binding arbitration, those clauses usually buried in the fine print of your credit card agreement that say you can’t sue your bank. You have to go to arbitration instead. The CFPB proposal would let consumers band together to sue in class action lawsuits.