Nov 1, 2016

Class-Actions Nov 28, 2016

The Touch Disease Class Action Lawsuit to Continue as the Lead Plaintiff Calls Apple’s Latest Offer ‘Pitiful’

Late on Thursday Patently Apple posted a report titled ” Apple Formally Acknowledges the iPhone 6 Plus ‘Touch Disease’ Issue and Offers Customers with this Problem Some Relief .” While Apple opened a new program to deal with the issue this week that would provide some Apple customers a bit of financial relief, I questioned whether that would be enough relief for the law firms handling the class …

Legal News Nov 28, 2016

LADWP Accidentally Overcharged Its Customers by at Least $67.5 Million

On Friday evening, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge issued preliminary approval to a proposed class-action settlement for customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) who were overcharged at least $67.5 million following the introduction of a new billing system in September of 2013, …

Legal News Nov 28, 2016

Missouri High Court Won’t Hear Ferguson-Related Lawsuit

Missouri’s highest court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit by activists seeking an independent probe of a prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown. The Missouri Supreme Court announced in an order obtained by media outlets Friday that it won’t hear the matter. Activists were challenging a state appellate court’s May conclusion that a …

News Nov 28, 2016

Cancer Patient Speaking Out Against Proposed Class Action Settlement

A LaSalle woman is speaking out against a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit involving diluted chemotherapy treatments. Sarah Johnson blames the incident for her cancer coming back and she says the settlement doesn’t cover her pain and suffering. This story goes back to 2012, when it was discovered that over 1,200 cancer patients allegedly received diluted chemotherapy.

News Nov 27, 2016

Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture

Lawyers for Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Jessen have clashed with the Justice Department over what classified evidence is needed to defend against the suit’s allegations that the men “designed, implemented, and personally administered an experimental torture program.” Lasting Scars Articles in this series examine the American legacy of brutal interrogations. Last month, despite United States government …

Legal News Nov 25, 2016

Lawsuit by Teacher Allegedly Fired Over Central Park Five Lesson Dismissed

A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former New York City public high school teacher who claimed she was fired for teaching a unit about five men wrongly convicted in the 1989 gang rape of a Central Park jogger. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl ruled that Jeena Lee-Walker’s speech, as a public employee, was not protected by the First Amendment when she taught lessons about …

Settlements Nov 25, 2016

Baton Rouge to Pay $100,000 to BLM for Use of Excessive Force During Alton Sterling Protests

Ninety-two protesters arrested during demonstrations sparked by the police shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this year are set to get a hefty payout from state and local authorities, who they accused of using excessive force and violating their civil rights, the Christian Science Monitor has reported. The Baton Rouge Metro Council moved on Nov. 23 to settle a …

Lawsuits Nov 25, 2016

Wells Fargo Sued for 401k Self-Dealing

Wells Fargo faces a new lawsuit claiming 401k self-dealing on the part of $3 billion of employee retirement savings. Plaintiffs allege the company funneled 401k plan assets into “expensive, under-performing” proprietary target date funds to enrich itself. Reuters reports the proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, accused the third-largest U.S. bank of steering 401(k) contributions to its Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Date funds. The lawsuit, filed by employees, seeks to “recoup excess fees and unrealized profits stemming from Wells Fargo’s alleged breach of fiduciary duties to all 401(k) participants over the last six years,” according to the complaint. It added that Wells Fargo’s target date funds cost 2.5 times more than similar funds from …

Notices Nov 22, 2016

SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Against Lannett Company, Inc. And Certain Officers – LCI

Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Lannett Company, Inc. (“Lannett” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LCI ) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who purchased Lannett securities …

News Nov 22, 2016

Dozens of Fracking Companies Sued Over Record-Breaking Oklahoma Earthquake

Property damage, reduced property values and emotional distress resulting from a record-breaking September earthquake are all claimed in the lawsuit, which does not specify any sum total that the 27 fracking companies would pay if found liable, according to the Associated Press. The class-action suit filed Thursday in district court points to the natural gas extraction method of fracking, or …