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Dial Soap MDL Denied; Date For Certification Answer Reset
CONCORD, N.H. - The defense motion to dismiss the Dial Complete Antimicrobial Foaming Soap multidistrict litigation consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire was denied...
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Jury Finds Chinese Vitamin C Makers Fixed Prices; $153.3M Judgment Entered
NEW YORK - A federal judge in New York on March 14 entered judgment for $153.3 million after trebling a jury's $54.1 million verdict in favor of a direct purchaser class on its allegations that Chinese...
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Expanded Discovery Denied In Home Depot Age Discrimination Class Suit
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Kansas federal magistrate judge on March 28 "generally denied" a motion to compel production of documents relating to more than 1 million employees of a home improvement and...
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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LOS ANGELES - In an unpublished opinion, a California appeals panel on March 21 affirmed summary judgment in favor of a health insurer in a premium dispute case, saying there was no showing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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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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$142M Neurontin Verdict For Third-Party Payer Affirmed; Class Denial Reversed
BOSTON - A federal appeals court panel on April 3 affirmed a $142 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. for off-label marketing of Neurontin to a third-party payer, vacated summary judgment against...
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Shareholder Failed To State Claims In Say-On-Pay Suit, Federal Judge Rules
CHICAGO - A company's board of directors did not breach its fiduciary duty by failing to disclose certain information under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act prior to...
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Panel Affirms Insurer Was Presumed Prejudiced By Late Notice After Rehearing
MIAMI - After granting an insurer's motion for rehearing in a Hurricane Wilma coverage dispute, a Florida appeals panel on April 3 concluded that a lower court properly found that the insurer was...
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