The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois recently issued a preliminary order of approval for the settlement of a class action lawsuit between residents of Roxana and Shell Oil Co. This is indicative that the parties have agreed to, at the very least, the basic terms of a settlement. The order, issued Aug. 2 in response to the plaintiff’s unopposed motion for …
Gina Miller, who brought the lawsuit that forced U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to get parliamentary approval for her Brexit plans, may file another legal challenge — this time over May’s bid to take control over thousands of European Union laws. The investment manager said Thursday that she would …
Harbor Freight, a national tool and equipment retailer with more than 750 stores nationwide, has settled a class-action lawsuit which could get shoppers up to 30 percent back on their purchases. If you made a purchase at Harbor Freight between April 8, 2011 and Dec. 15, 2016, you could receive benefits from the settlement. A court granted preliminary approval of the settlement on Dec. 15, 2016.
The company that privately operates Highway 407 ETR through the Greater Toronto Area will pay $8 million to settle a class action lawsuit. The agreement, signed Thursday, ends a legal battle that Global News first reported in April, 2012. The legal action alleged that the toll highway consortium illegally made use of provincial legislation to prevent drivers who were bankrupt or insolvent from …
Steel Dynamics Inc., a steel producer headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has entered into an agreement to settle the direct purchaser class action litigation, Standard Iron Works v. Arcelor Mittal, et al, for $4.6 million. The lawsuit was brought in Chicago federal court in 2008 by a class of direct steel purchasers, alleging that the company, among other steel producers, had participated in …
Turning back attempts to change the final terms of the Dieselgate class-action suit settlement, Judge Charles Breyer Tuesday gave thumbs up to the final agreement. The decision clears away the last obstacles keeping owners of Volkswagen turbodiesel vehicles, caught up in the automaker’s self-inflicted emissions cheating scandal, from having their vehicles repurchased as early as next month – …
A settlement agreement for minors who had water contaminated with cryptosporidium in North Battleford, Sask., 15 years ago has been given preliminary approval. Thousands of people got sick in March and April 2001 when the parasite, which can cause diarrhea and vomiting, was found in the city’s drinking water. 15 years after Sask.
Volkswagen AG and car owners will likely secure a federal judge’s final sign-off on their $14.7 billion settlement as the automaker continues to seek regulators’ approval of a fix for 482,000 pollution-spewing vehicles still on U.S. roads. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said he is “strongly” inclined to approve the settlement requiring VW to buy back cars with 2.0-liter …
A federal judge in San Francisco has granted preliminary approval of a lawsuit settlement that would refund $344,000 to 47,000 passengers who were allegedly led to believe that drivers were receiving all of a 20 percent gratuity. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen granted the preliminary approval Thursday of the proposed agreement in a 2014 lawsuit filed against the ride-booking …
Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that a complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased the common stock of Insmed Incorporated (“Insmed” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:INSM) between March 18, 2013 and June 8, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”), …