More than a dozen lawyers who already face a federal judge’s penalties tied to ethics violations in a class-action insurance lawsuit last year — Adams v. USAA — find themselves in another legal tangle involving the same case. Now, policyholders for the insurance company United Services Automobile Association have sued. The latest court action, Wartick v. USAA, alleges that 12 plaintiffs’ …
Recently, the City of Philadelphia initiated a class action lawsuit in Illinois federal court against a number of world financial institutions, claimed they violated federal antitrust law in colluding to prevent the purchase and sale of interest rate swaps (IRS). The lawsuit, filed May 23, claims Bank of America Corp, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and a host of …
On August 19, 2002, Avril Lavine’s “Complicated” was the number-one song in the U.S., the public accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP was about to surrender its CPA licenses, and the plaintiffs in Lawrence E. Jaffe Pension Plan v. Household International, Inc., et al filed their first complaint in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Jaffe was one of dozens of securities fraud suits that named …
A Muslim police officer is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) to stop enforcement of what he says is an unconstitutional policy banning officers from having beards. Masood Syed, who works as a law clerk for the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Trials, said he’s had a half-inch to one-inch beard throughout his 10-year police career, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday in …
A conservative legal advocacy group is suing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe over his decision to restore the voting rights of thousands of felons who’ve completed their sentences.
Federal court asked to revive lawsuit over Alta’s snowboarding ban SALT LAKE CITY — A federal appeals court is being asked to revive a lawsuit filed against Alta Ski Area and the U.S. Forest Service over the ski resort’s historic ban on snowboarding. In a petition with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, a group of snowboarders calling themselves “Wasatch Equality” ask the federal …
On June 2, 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against TransEnterix, Inc. (NYSE: TRXC). The complaint alleges violations of federal securities laws, Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5, including allegations of issuing a …
More than 168 professional golf caddies have filed an appeal seeking to overturn a ruling in February that dismissed a $50 million lawsuit against the PGA tour. The caddies alleged the PGA compelled them to wear corporate-sponsored logos on bibs without compensation. The filing claims that the PGA Tour officials threatened to prohibit caddies from participating in events if they didn’t wear the …
A Washington, D.C.-based public interest law firm filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court last week, urging the court to review a class action settlement that it argues is unfair to class members. On Thursday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness, or CCAF, filed its petition for writ of certiorari with the nation’s highest …
Lawyers for companies trying to fend off costly class action lawsuits are rethinking longstanding legal strategies after businesses lost two key U.S. Supreme Court cases as well as their staunchest supporter on the bench. At the start of the court’s term in October, the business community had reason to believe the justices would further pare back class action litigation after rulings …