Today, we at Class Action Countermeasures are proud to post an analysis of the recent Target litigation appellate opinion by members of our class action and data privacy groups: Laura A. Lange, Shawna J. English, and Bethany Lukitsch. The $10 million settlement class in the Target data breach case was unraveled by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in a recent decision that will force the …
Last week, a federal appeals court reversed and sent back to a district court a $10 million settlement in a data breach class action brought against Target. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit explained in its Feb. 1 opinion that while the U.S. Supreme Court has not said what, specifically, a “rigorous analysis” of class certification prerequisites …
Wells Fargo & Co. enriched itself at its employees’ expense by including costly, in-house target date funds in its 401(k) plan, a new class action complaint alleges ( Meiners v. Wells Fargo & Co. , D. Minn., No. 0:16-cv-03981, complaint filed 11/22/16 ). In the past year, several proposed class actions have targeted financial companies that include in-house investment products in …
Wells Fargo faces a new lawsuit claiming 401k self-dealing on the part of $3 billion of employee retirement savings. Plaintiffs allege the company funneled 401k plan assets into “expensive, under-performing” proprietary target date funds to enrich itself. Reuters reports the proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, accused the third-largest U.S. bank of steering 401(k) contributions to its Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Date funds. The lawsuit, filed by employees, seeks to “recoup excess fees and unrealized profits stemming from Wells Fargo’s alleged breach of fiduciary duties to all 401(k) participants over the last six years,” according to the complaint. It added that Wells Fargo’s target date funds cost 2.5 times more than similar funds from …
A shopping trip to Target turned into a lawsuit for a South Carolina family. “It was important to them to be able to tell their story and tell what Target did to them,” Joshua Hawkins said. Hawkins is a lawyer with J.T.
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A jury has awarded an Anderson woman more than $4.6 million after she was stuck by a needle picked up in a Target parking lot. Before Carla Denise Garrison’s lawsuit against Target Corp. went to trial, her lawyer offered to settle with the retailer for $12,000, but the offer was rejected. When the trial concluded Thursday, a jury determined that Garrison was entitled to well more than that.
A Chicago man has hit CVS with a class action lawsuit, saying the drug store giant, which recently purchased all of Target’s retail pharmacies, should be made to pay out for allegedly calling former Target pharmacy customers, without their consent, using automated messages to remind the customers to take prescription medications or pick up prescription refills at CVS. On Aug. 31, plaintiff …
On Monday, in a courtroom in downtown Pittsburgh, jury selection will take place in Target’s lawsuit against Michael Turner. Three years ago, Turner and his friends jumped in when Leon Walls attacked a 16-year-old girl inside the East Liberty Target. Turner told us what happened that day.