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Credit Card Agreement Permits Call Recording, Federal Judge Rules
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge in California on Feb. 26 dismissed a putative class action alleging that FIA Card Services, National Association (FIA) invaded consumers' privacy by recording phone...
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KBR Burn Pit Litigation Dismissed; Jurisdiction Over Veterans' Claims Denied
GREENBELT, Md. - The KBR Burn Pit personal injury multidistrict litigation consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland was dismissed Feb. 27 for lack of jurisdiction under the...
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Permanent Nuisance Claim Survives In Kentucky Action Against Hog Factory Farms
PADUCAH, Ky. - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky judge presiding over a certified class action for damages against the owners of confined hog feeding barns in Marshall...
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ARS Antitrust Claims Against Broker-Dealers Fail, 2nd Circuit Rules
NEW YORK - The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 5 affirmed the dismissal of Citigroup and other financial institutions from two putative class actions that alleged that the financial...
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Judge: Woman's Competition Law Claims Against 'Speedy PC' Software Company...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman adequately supports California unfair competition law (UCL) claims alleging that a company overstated the speed and privacy benefits of its software, a federal judge held March...
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Merchant Prematurely Removed Credit Card Suit, Federal Judge Finds
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in California on March 8 granted a consumer's motion to remand to a state court a putative class action alleging that a skin care company illegally solicits and records...
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Louisiana Federal Judge Denies Remand In Class Actions Alleging Chemical...
BATON ROUGE, La. - Remand was denied Feb. 26 in two putative classes removed in April to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana because the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000,...
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Dow Moves To Vacate $400M Award To Direct Purchasers In Urethane Antitrust Case
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Dow Chemical Co., the sole remaining defendant in multidistrict litigation against polyether polyol products (PPPs) manufacturers accused of price fixing, moved on March 5 to vacate...
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2nd Circuit Won't Reconsider Sirius XM Settlement Of Class Suit Over Merger
NEW YORK - The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 5 denied objectors' petitions for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc of the court's Dec. 20 order upholding the approval of a settlement...
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Federal Judge Finds Class Member In Contempt Of Settlement Order
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in California on Feb. 28 granted Chase Bank USA NA's motion for contempt against a class member in a settled suit that alleged that the bank illegally increased...
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Florida Federal Judge Partially Approves Settlement In Debt Collection Class...
FORT PIERCE, Fla. - A Florida federal judge on March 5 preliminarily approved a $16,018.56 settlement in a debt collection class dispute but declined to approve the requirement that class members opt...
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Federal Judge Bars Certain Defenses In ATM Fees Action
INDIANAPOLIS - A federal judge in Indiana on March 12 granted in part and denied in part a consumer's motion for summary judgment in a putative class action alleging that an ATM operator violated the...
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Limited Discovery Of Faxed Advertising Ordered In TCPA Class Suit
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri federal judge on March 4 partially granted and partially denied a motion to compel a company accused of sending out unsolicited fax advertisements to provide responses to...
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UnitedHealth Group Divisions Sued For Insufficient Mental Illness Coverage
NEW YORK - The New York State Psychiatric Association Inc. and several of its patients filed a class complaint March 11 in New York federal court accusing several divisions of a health insurer,...
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Class Action Suit Alleges Antitrust Violations Against Blue Cross Blue Shield
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Arkansas resident on Feb. 20 filed a new complaint in Alabama federal court, adding to the multidistrict litigation cases alleging that agreements between Blue Cross Blue Shield...
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Pella Windows Faces Class Action Complaint In Louisiana Federal Court
NEW ORLEANS - Two Louisiana couples filed a class action complaint in federal court on Feb. 24, contending that a window manufacturer knowingly sold a defective product that caused damage to customers'...
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Panel Says BP Is Additional Insured As To Pollution Risks Related To Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS - BP Exploration & Production Inc. and its related entities are additional insureds under policies issued to Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. and, therefore, are entitled to...
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BP, Government Agree Company Collected 810,000 Barrels Of Oil During Spill
NEW ORLEANS - In what published reports are saying could save BP Exploration and Production Inc. more than $3 billion in penalties under the Clean Water Act (CWA), a federal judge in Louisiana on Feb....
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Oil Spill MDL Judge Approves Transocean's $1B Settlement Agreement
NEW ORLEANS- The federal judge in Louisiana who is overseeing litigation arising from the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and ensuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 19...
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DOJ: Judge Accepts Transocean's Guilty Plea; Company To Pay $400M
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Justice announced that on Feb. 14 a federal judge in Louisiana accepted Transocean Ltd.'s guilty plea for violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) over its conduct...
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