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Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Class Actions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | E-Commerce
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kelly
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Case Number: 18-1083
Japanese bank moved to dismiss plaintiff's putative class action over a bitcoin exchange for lack of jurisdiction and court found it lacked both general and specific jurisdiction over bank that had no branches or representatives in the United States and never expressly aimed any conduct at Pennsylvania. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Practice Area: Class Actions | Energy and Natural Resources
Industry: Mining and Resources
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Conti
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Case Number: 18-1079
Defendant sought reconsideration of the judgment holding that its mineral rights lease agreements with plaintiff class members were en-forceable contracts but it failed to produce evidence that the class members intended to incorporate into the document defendant's inter-pretation of the "no liability" clause or were even aware of such interpretation. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Practice Area: Class Actions | Securities Litigation
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
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Case Number: 18-0981
Plaintiff's securities fraud claims against pharmaceutical company CEO and CFO failed because plaintiff did not satisfy the scienter standard for securities fraud where plaintiff's allegations were insufficiently particularized as to the CEO's and CFO's state of mind. Dismissed with prejudice.
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Class Actions
Industry: Food and Beverage
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Smith
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Case Number: 18-0951
District court erred in granting class certification by resolving doubts in favor of certification and where plaintiffs failed to present sufficient concrete evidence of class numerosity or commonality. Order of the district court reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Practice Area: Class Actions | Contracts | Public Utilities
Industry: Energy
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Goldberg
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Case Number: 18-0881
Breach of contract and implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing arising from electric generation supplier's failure to provide savings over local utility company rates dismissed where supplier's agreement expressly stated supplier could not guarantee customers would see savings over utility companies' rates. Defendant's motion to dismiss granted.
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Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Practice Area: Class Actions | Personal Injury
Industry: Health Care
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Wecht
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Case Number: 18-0770
Superior court erred in imposing a duty on staffing agency but correctly imposed duty on hospital, in negligence action brought by patients infected with hepatitis C by technician's theft of a controlled substance, refiling the syringes with saline and placing the contaminated syringes where they could be used to infect patients, because the CSA imposed a duty on hospital but not on agency to report the thefts to the DEA. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Practice Area: Class Actions | Wage and Hour Litigation
Industry: Retail
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Hornak
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Case Number: 18-0766
Plaintiffs' motion for class certification under rule 23 was denied because individual questions predominated and plaintiffs also failed to meet the "more searching standard" for conditional certification under 29 U.S.C. §216(b) in their complaint asserting they were improperly classified as exempt employees under the FLSA and the PMWA. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Practice Area: Class Actions | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 18-0706
Amended statutory monetary limit for protected residential mortgages did not apply retroactively where the statute encompassed substantive remedies not contemplated by the parties at the time of their contract formation. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Practice Area: Class Actions | Dispute Resolution
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Brody
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Case Number: 18-0661
Court permanently enjoined funding company from seeking arbitration against concussion class action member over the validity of the funding agreement between company and class member because the funding agreement violated a section of the settlement agreement and court used its power under the all writs act to prevent a collateral attack on the remedies specified in the class action settlement. Permanent injunction granted.
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Practice Area: Class Actions | Personal Injury
Industry: Education
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge White
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Case Number: 18-0600
The court overruled defendant's preliminary objections as to duty and causation based on the law of the case, and the issue of attorney fees was premature, because plaintiffs had not yet moved for class certification.
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