A $375 million settlement will end the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant’s 26-year legal battle with thousands of Colorado homeowners, if approved by a federal judge. About 15,000 land- and homeowners in the Westminster and Arvada area will get damages from Dow Chemical Co. and Rockwell International Corp., co-owners of the Rocky Flats plant that made triggers for nuclear warheads …
Airlines have frequent flyer programs, restaurants and coffee shops have customer loyalty programs, and plaintiff’s class action firms have repeat class action plaintiffs. These frequent class plaintiffs are either unlucky or they go looking for trouble. See Beyond Systems, Inc. v. Kraft Foods, Inc., 777 F.3d 712, 714 (2015) (noting that email spam litigation accounted for 90% of plaintiff’s …
Illinois resident Yvonne Averhart was one of many who filed a class action lawsuit against SuperValu Inc. last month, alleging that the company represents that its grated Parmesan cheese product is composed of 100 percent cheese when it actually consists of a mixture of cheese and non-cheese filler substance derived from wood …
BIRMINGHAM RETIREMENT AND RELIEF SYSTEM, et al., Plaintiffs, v. S.A.C. CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., et al., Defendants. No. 13 Civ. 2459 (VM) (KNF) ECF CASE. REVISED COURT ORDERED DATE DEADLINES FOR REQUESTS FOR EXCLUSIONS, OBJECTIONS, CLAIM FORM FILING AND HEARING DATE. SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION AND PLAN OF ALLOCATION; (II) SETTLEMENT …
A panel of state appellate justices could have simply found an insurer wasn’t obligated to pay to cover a $4 million settlement reached to end a lawsuit brought by a suburban engineering firm that claimed it had received so-called “junk fax” advertisements. But the justices used the occasion to also send a message to the lawyers it says are responsible for a “proliferation” of potential junk …
Attorney General Luther Strange recently hailed a U.S. Supreme Court decision clarifying that persons filing lawsuits must be able to prove actual harm. The ruling serves to place limits on costly class action lawsuits based on technical violations of the law in which persons have suffered no actual damage. On May 16, the Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in favor of the on-line company …
This January, we reported on a proposed class action sweepstakes lawsuit filed on behalf of all runners who entered the New York City Marathon’s (“Marathon”) general entry drawing (“Drawing”) between 2010 and 2015. Last month, two of the named plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew their claims against the Marathon’s organizer and operator – New York Road Runners, Inc. (“Road Runners”) – after Road …
Last March, the United States Supreme Court held that a putative class action is not mooted when a defendant offers the named plaintiff complete relief but the plaintiff does not accept the offer. Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, 136 S. Ct. 663 (2016). That decision left open the question of whether a settlement offer—coupled with an actual tender of complete relief—would …
Some Silver Spring residents who live along the proposed Purple Line light rail route are gearing up for a fight in court. …
“DIRECTV took advantage of the civil justice system when it suited the company, but then wants to kick consumers out of the courts. It can’t have it both ways,” said Harvey Rosenfield. “This is an issue that the US Supreme Court did not decide, but it’s a crucial point.