Archive for January, 2010
Staples settles class action lawsuit for $42M (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Author: sebrenner
Staples Inc. said Friday it will pay $42 million to settle several class action lawsuits related to overtime pay to “avoid further distraction.”
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Stull, Stull Brody today announced that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of the public minority shareholders of Alcon, Inc. …
NEW YORK—-Stull, Stull & Brody today announced that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of the public minority shareholders of Alcon, Inc. , seeking to pursue remedies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and common law.
CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – 01/29/10) – The Consumer Advocacy Center, P.C ., is a Chicago-based, private, for-profit law firm that concentrates in both individual and class action consumer rights cases. It is responsible for bringing consumer rights lawsuits against companies which have resulted in large court-approved awards for numerous Chicago area charities to help them in 2010. When the …
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—-Staples, Inc. announced today that it has reached a global settlement in several retail wage and hour class action lawsuits related to the alleged misclassification of its assistant store managers concerning overtime pay.
Class Action Suit Filed In Unnecessary Stents Case (WBAL-TV Baltimore)
Author: sebrenner
A class action lawsuit has been filed against St. Joseph’s Medical Center after a doctor was accused of performing unnecessary surgeries.
Golf members are taking another swing at a class-action lawsuit they brought against the developer of Fiddler’s Creek.In December, the two couples who filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers, reached a confidential settlement with the developer after alleging fraud and theft of their member deposits. The case was then dismissed.But it appears the developer, Fiddler’s Creek LLC, did …
Class-Action Suit Targets Hospital (ABC 2 Baltimore)
Author: sebrenner
Attorneys have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Baltimore-area hospital that recently informed more than 350 patients that they may have received unnecessary heart stents.
Although the number of securities class action suits filed in Canada held up in 2009, the value of settlements was down notably from the previous year.