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Class Certification Discovery Ordered In New Jersey Topical Flea Treatment Cases

NEWARK, N.J. - A consent motion seeking limited class certification discovery in the topical flea and tick treatment products liability class actions coordinated in the U.S. District Court for the...

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Massachusetts Federal Judge: Contract Truck Drivers Are Employees Under State...

BOSTON - A Massachusetts federal judge on March 28 found that a Georgia company's contract truck drivers located in Massachusetts are actually employees under Massachusetts law (Celso Martins, et al....

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9th Circuit: 401(k) Fiduciaries Breach Duties By Offering Retail-Class Shares

SAN FRANCISCO - Fiduciaries of a 401(k) plan violated their duty of prudence under Employee Retirement Income Security Act Section 404(a) by including retail-class shares of three specific mutual funds...

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California Appeals Court Finds No Showing Of Unlawful Conduct In Premium Case

LOS ANGELES - In an unpublished opinion, a California appeals panel on March 21 affirmed summary judgment in favor of a health insurer in a premium dispute case, saying there was no showing that the...

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Third Parties Can Compel Arbitration In Credit Card Suit, Federal Judge Finds

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge in California on March 28 granted defendants' motion to stay and compel arbitration in a class action alleging harassing phone calls and letters in connection with a...

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MDL Judge Approves Settlement Between Toshiba, Direct CRT Purchasers

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on March 18 certified a settlement class and granted preliminary approval of a $13.5 million settlement between direct purchasers of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) and Toshiba...

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D.C. Federal Judge Approves Settlement Of LivingSocial MDL

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A District of Columbia federal judge on March 22 granted final approval of a $4.5 million settlement to be paid by an online daily deal site to end claims that it sold vouchers with...

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Class Suit Over Recording Of Phone Calls Transferred To Other Calif. Federal...

FRESNO, Calif. - A U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California magistrate judge on March 14 agreed to transfer a class complaint accusing a hotel chain of improperly recording calls with...

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Tennessee Federal Judge Transfers Junk Fax Suit To Ohio Federal Court

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee federal judge on March 14 agreed to transfer a class complaint over unsolicited faxed advertisements to an Ohio federal court, where a similar case was filed several...

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3 Sue The Metropolitan Museum Of Art For Deceiving Visitors About Admission Fees

NEW YORK - Two men from the Czech Republic and a New York man filed a class complaint on March 5 accusing The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) of deceiving and defrauding the public by leading them to...

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United Accused Of Shortchanging Frequent Flyers

CHICAGO - A Maryland man filed a class complaint on March 18 in Illinois federal court accusing United Continental Holdings Inc., United Air Lines Inc. and Mileage Plus Holdings LLC (collectively,...

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H&R Block Sued For Errors In Customers' Tax Filings

FLINT, Mich. - A South Carolina man and a Michigan woman who had their tax forms completed at two different H&R Block offices in Michigan filed an amended class complaint on March 26, alleging that...

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Trader Joe's Faces Class Suit Alleging Deceptive Ingredients

SAN FRANCISCO - Three California women on March 25 filed a class complaint in a California federal court accusing Trader Joe's Co. of mislabeling some of its products to hide added sugar, added...

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Ford Faces Action Alleging Defect Causes Unintended Acceleration In Vehicles

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Consumers from 14 states filed a class action complaint in a West Virginia federal court on March 28 contending that design defects in vehicles lacking brake override systems can...

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Class Action Plaintiffs Seek Damages For Burn Pit, Contaminated Water Injuries

SAN DIEGO - Plaintiffs who filed a putative class action complaint March 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California seek to represent U.S. soldiers injured by exposure to...

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Securities Class Action Settlements Reach 14-Year Low, Cornerstone Report Shows

BOSTON - Although 2012 saw the number of securities class action settlements reach a 14-year low, the total settlement dollars for the year increased by more than 100 percent over 2011, according to a...

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High Court: Class Certification In Antitrust Case Was Improper

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 27 ruled 5-4 that a district court may not certify a class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) without resolving whether the class...

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U.S. High Court: Class Rep's Damages Limit Doesn't Defeat Federal Jurisdiction

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A class representative's stipulation that damages being sought were less than $5 million does not defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), a unanimous...

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Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Health Care Class Arbitration Dispute

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 heard oral arguments to address whether, in a dispute over a health insurer's reimbursement of physicians' claim, an arbitrator acted within his...

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Supreme Court Remands Washing Machine Mold Class Suit In Light Of Behrend

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 1 granted a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a manufacturer of washing machines, vacating a decision that upheld the certification of a class...

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