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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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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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2nd Circuit Ruling May Force FDA's Hand In Banning Antibacterial Soap Chemical
NEW YORK - An environmental advocacy group has standing to sue the Food and Drug Administration to force it to finalize a drug monograph that may ban one ingredient in antibacterial soaps, but its...
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Federal Judge Admits Experts On Value Of Land Condemned For Flight 93 Memorial
PITTSBURGH - Government and property owner experts who have vastly different land valuation calculations for the 275-acre farm where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, will be...
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Magistrate Judge Recommends Class Certification Be Denied To Direct Purchasers
TAMPA, Fla. - A federal magistrate judge in Florida on March 12 recommended that a group of direct purchasers of photochromic lenses be denied class certification in antitrust litigation against the...
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Teva Pharmaceuticals To Pay $2.2M To Resolve Claims Over Facility's Discharges
ST. LOUIS - Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. on March 14 agreed to pay $2.25 million in civil penalties to resolve claims from the federal government and State of Missouri that discharges from the...
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Florida Panel Affirms Agency's Interpretation Of Statute As To Sinkhole Coverage
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Florida appeals panel on March 13 affirmed the state's Office of Insurance Regulations' disapproval of property insurers' proposed amendment to their endorsement for limiting...
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Judge: Loan Modification Allegations Can't Support Competition Law Claims
LOS ANGELES - A couple fail to adequately plead that their lender's attempts to modify their mortgage constituted unlawful, unfair or fraudulent conduct under the California unfair competition law...
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Grass Seed Distribution Damages Opinion Not Based On Fact, Federal Judge Says
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - A damages expert's subjective decision to account for disgorged profits when calculating a royalty rate in grass seed licensing dispute was "so flawed" that it required exclusion, a...
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Federal Judge Affirms Ruling; Debtor Must Turn Over Property To Trustees
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands - A federal judge in the Virgin Islands on March 14 ruled that a bankruptcy court had jurisdiction to order a debtor to turn over property to the trustees in his personal...
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