Dartmouth, plaintiffs seek mediation in PBS lawsuitby The Dartmouth Senior Staff | 5/27/19 12:19pmMoore Hall houses the psychological and brain sciences department. In a motion filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, the two parties in the $70-million class action lawsuit, Rapuano et. Mediation is an out-of-court attempt to settle a legal dispute using a agreed upon third- …
Apple has been hit with a class action federal lawsuit by customers who are alleging that information on their iTunes purchases was sold by Apple to third parties. The parties complain that the collection of the data was done in violation of their own individual states’ privacy laws. The complaint alleges Apple supplements its revenues by selling, renting and transmitting with third parties …
Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement upon the introduction of the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (H.R. 985): “Due to the complexity and costs associated with our legal system, a lawsuit has become a dirty …
Epic Systems and a group of plaintiffs in one of three pending overtime pay lawsuits against the health care software maker cannot reveal the terms of a recently reached settlement in part because of a similar lawsuit involving Epic that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a court filing Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Conley wrote to the parties earlier this month asking …
Deadlines in a $30 million class action settlement with Wells Fargo over alleged violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act have been pushed back to avoid an additional $900,000 in costs by the class. The settlement, which amounts to $30,446,022.75, was preliminarily approved by Judge Richard Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …
Eight bidders not selected to purchase Westar Energy will be able to submit new bids based on a settlement agreement reached this week in a class action lawsuit filed in July in Shawnee County. Westar and Great Plains Energy settled with plaintiffs in all three lawsuits filed against the companies regarding the proposed acquisition of Westar by GPE, according to a Securities and Exchange …
This summer, the Sixth Circuit rejected class action litigants’ filing of the bulk of their class settlement documents under seal. Shane Grp., Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mich., 825 F.3d 299 (6th Cir. 2016).
The federal judge overseeing a proposed class action settlement involving millions of allegedly defective Remington firearms says the parties can go ahead with a revised plan to notify gun owners of their right to get the triggers replaced. But in a unique twist, the judge is delaying final approval of the settlement until he sees how many people file claims. The case involves Remington’s …
Frequently, a class action complaint will set forth an elaborate theory of why the defendant’s actions were negligent or wrongful, but fall short when trying to identify how that conduct has harmed the class members. This kind of complaint invites a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to demonstrate constitutional standing by identifying a “concrete, particularized,…