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Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Michael Booth | June 14, 2017
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor accusing the operator of 17 Houlihan's restaurants in New Jersey and New York of illegally pocketing portions of servers' and bartenders' tips, and failing to pay them for working overtime.
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 13, 2017
One of the claimants in the Trump University case--herself a Florida lawyer--has asked a federal appeals court to unravel the $25 million agreement that settled the matter shortly after Donald Trump was elected president – and she's brought in noted appellate attorney Deepak Gupta to do it.
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By therecorder | The Recorder | June 12, 2017
U.S. Sup. Ct.; 15–457 Orders granting or denying class certification are inherently interlocutory, hence not immediately reviewable under 28 U.…
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By Rebecca Baker | June 12, 2017
"This civil rights class action is the paradigm of change and progress achievable in a society undergirded by the rule of law," Southern District Judge Robert Sweet wrote in approving the settlement in a case that accused NYPD officers of writing at least 900,000 summonses that were later dismissed as insufficient.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | June 12, 2017
Employees of TransPerfect Global who said they faced "increased risk" of identity theft after their personal information was stolen in a January 2017 data breach lack standing to sue because they had not suffered an actual or impending injury, attorneys for the company said last week in filings in New York federal court.
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By Charles Toutant | June 12, 2017
A U.S. magistrate judge in Newark has approved a $1.2 million settlement of an overtime suit against Galaxy Recycling of Jersey City on behalf of residential trash collectors who claimed they were denied overtime pay.
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 12, 2017
In a ruling reverberating through the class action bar, the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a controversial procedural tool that allowed plaintiffs attorneys to appeal class certification orders by dismissing their own case.
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By Michael Booth | June 12, 2017
A federal judge has dismissed a putative class action against clothing company J. Crew Group Inc. claiming the company issued receipts that were too revealing.
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By Samantha Joseph | June 12, 2017
A class action lawsuit filed in Fort Lauderdale alleges a company used lead-scraping software to send unsolicited text messages to real estate professionals.
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By B. Colby Hamilton | June 9, 2017
An antitrust suit filed in the Southern District Thursday seeks to push major financial institutions toward greater transparency in the credit default swap market, potentially opening the door to more investor litigation in the space.
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