Residents of New Hampshire, 14 other states and the District of Columbia can now file a claim for part of a $52 million dairy anti-trust settlement. The settlement was reached earlier this month in a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that National Milk Producers Federation, through its voluntary farmer-funded national program, Cooperatives Working Together, artificially limited raw milk …
The growing number of court cases over the Volkswagen emissions scandal highlights the need in Europe for class action lawsuits, according to Independent MEP Marian Harkin. Speaking in the European Parliament this week, she said that the growing number of motorists seeking compensation from the car giant highlighted the fact that there is no mechanism for a combined legal class action at EU …
The class action complaint, filed with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, accuses Welspun of violating Missouri’s consumer fraud statutes and other laws, through deception, fraud, false pretence, false promise, misrepresentation, unfair practice or concealment, suppression, breach of warranty and/or omission of material fact, among other things …
In 2008, a dozen women employed by Sterling Jewelers sued the company. They’re alleging sexual discrimination at the highest levels. The matter, once argued in contractually mandated private arbitration proceedings, has now evolved into a class-action lawsuit, with the trial beginning next month…
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Michelle Lee faced a barrage of questions and criticism from primarily Republican lawmakers on Tuesday at a U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee hearing, over reports issued in recent months that took the agency to task over patent quality and employee attendance issues. A federal appeals court has ordered a federal judge in Philadelphia …
Their client allegedly suffered severe second and third-degree burns after his new Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge exploded in his pocket. The S7 Edge is not part of the recent Galaxy recall. Bergen County, New Jersey (PRWEB) September 14, 2016 Morgan & Morgan’s ClassAction.com has announced that the firm has filed a product liability lawsuit (case number: BER-L-6537-16; Superior Court of New Jersey, …
A federal judge on Wednesday certified a class-action lawsuit against Och-Ziff Capital Management related to a bribery probe, only to throw out the certification six hours later after being advised that the company had not had a chance to object. The reversal by U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan came in a lawsuit in which Och-Ziff shareholders accused the largest publicly traded U.S. …
Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday issued a statement regarding the judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit against the Gulf State Park project. The Governor’s Statement …
The Burma Superstar restaurants attorney released a statement Wednesday about three employees suing the chain for unfair wages. The attorney for the restaurants located in Alameda, San Francisco and Oakland says they have always “The owners value their team as an extension of their family, and strive to treat everyone with the utmost respect, providing good wages and …
L.A. Department of Water and Power officials announced more than a year ago that they would refund tens of millions of dollars to Angelenos who were overbilled because of a faulty computer system. But customers are still waiting and it will be 2017 before they see any money. Under a $44-million proposed class-action settlement announced in August 2015, customers were to receive a refund or …