Less than a month after he denied a motion by minor-league baseball players to classify their lawsuit against Major League Baseball as a class action, the U.S. district court judge presiding over the case has given the plaintiffs a second chance. In an order issued Aug. 19, Judge Joseph C. Spero granted a motion by the plaintiffs to reconsider his order to deny class certification in the case, …
Mylan Specialty is giving schools around the country its EpiPen device to fight the severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. (Photo: Provided) A Cincinnati attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit against the maker of the EpiPen, calling the device’s 500-percent price increase in the last several years “immoral” and “nothing more than price-gouging.” The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Hamilton …
GM settled the final two of six bellwether cases designed to set the pattern for future settlements related to the maker’s faulty ignition switches. General Motors Co. agreed to settlements in the final two ignition-switch cases slated for trial in a New York federal court this year. Terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
Cincinnati attorney Carl Lewis says he will become one of the first lawyers in the United States to file a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the EpiPen over skyrocketing costs Tuesday morning. The price of the EpiPen, a device designed to combat life-threatening allergic reactions, has climbed from about $100 in 2007 to $600 to $700 for a pack of two in 2016. The …
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 06, 2016 — Andrews & Springer LLC, a boutique securities class action law firm focused on representing shareholders nationwide, announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has been filed by another law firm on behalf of shareholders of Power Solutions International, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSIX) (“Power Solutions” or the “Company”) for possible corporate misconduct and …
Magistrate Judge Steven Locke of the Eastern District New York, recently denied conditional certification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the Cowell v. Utopia Home Carecase. For some home health patients, a plan of care includes general household tasks. | Janice Smits / Shutterstock This decision prevents the Utopia Home Care employees from filing …
The parties in a federal discrimination lawsuit involving the city’s three public day schools for children with mental health disabilities have filed hundreds of pages of emails, affidavits and other documents this summer as the two sides argue whether the case should be certified as a class-action lawsuit. The two sides in the case have also filed testimony from special education …
A class-action settlement case has been set up by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for owners of optical disc drives manufactured by four electronics companies in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Through litigation, Hagans Berman is in the process of securing settlement payments of $124.5 million from manufacturers Panasonic Corp., Panasonic Corp. …
………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. After three years of litigation characterized as “contentious” by federal Judge Edward M. Chen, the parties announced a settlement. Uber agreed to adjust some business practices and pay out $84 …
Facebook Inc. defeated a bid for a group lawsuit claiming the company illegally gave its users’ personal information to advertisers, with a judge ruling the plaintiffs didn’t have enough in common to pursue a class action. Facebook users accused the social network of “automatically and surreptitiously” disclosing to advertisers information about them when they clicked on ads. …