A federal judge Tuesday approved a $2.1 million class settlement between the publisher of the Yellow Pages and call center employees in Texas and Missouri who say they were stiffed for overtime pay. U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish signed off on the settlement, awarding $840,000 from it in attorneys’ fees to counsel with Baron Budd. The settlement ends a 2014 lawsuit from call …
A federal judge has approved a $13.3 million settlement between a court-appointed receiver overseeing properties at the center of the largest alleged fraud case in the state’s history and a bank for one of the accused developers. “The settlement agreement was entered into in good faith, is at arm’s length, and is not collusive,” Judge Darrin P. Gayles wrote on Tuesday, after accepting the …
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.
Schneider National Carriers Inc. will pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by California truck drivers who claim the company shorted them on pay. The resolution of the case, which dates to 2008, marks the …
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 …
As the months-old US$14.7-billion settlement reached between Volkswagen and nearly half a million Americans who purchased their emissions-cheating cars nears court approval, Canadian VW drivers remain entirely in the dark about their own deal. More than 100,000 Canadians own diesel-powered VW cars purchased on the belief they were environmentally friendly, producing less emissions than …
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 …
Volkswagen AG is asking for a final sign-off on its $14.7 billion settlement with drivers as it continues to seek regulators’ approval of a fix for 482,000 pollution-spewing vehicles still on U.S. roads. Without an approved repair, VW may be left with only one option: buy back the cars with so-called defeat devices from the owners. And the German automaker might have to do the same for a …
A settlement has been reached between a group of animation workers and DreamWorks Animation in a class action lawsuit alleging that DreamWorks and other companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to set animation wages via nonpoaching agreements. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Monday, the settlement provides for a cash payment of $50 million to a …
LearningRx, a Colorado Springs company that operates a franchised network of 80 tutoring centers in 25 states, is just beginning to recover after a 1½-year battle with the Federal Trade Commission over whether it could back up its advertising claims with scientific studies and other research. The company settled in May a lawsuit filed in federal court last year by the agency that alleged it …