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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 Amanda Bronstad | April 5, 2018
A federal judicial panel has ordered dozens of lawsuits against Intel, Apple and Uber into multidistrict litigation—but only one docket went to California's increasingly congested district in the Bay Area.
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By Max Mitchell | April 5, 2018
The judge has reserved for a later time her determination of the exact amount each firm will receive for its respective efforts.
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By Colby Hamilton | April 5, 2018
The national retailer was alleged to have unfairly excluded qualified African-American and Latino candidates for hire due to automatic rejections over criminal histories.
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By David C. Franceski Jr. and John J. Murphy | April 5, 2018
On March 20, the U.S. Supreme Court in Cyan v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, reaffirmed that because federal and state courts share concurrent jurisdiction over class actions alleging violations of the Securities Act of 1933 (1933 Act), such actions can remain in state court.
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By Max Mitchell | April 3, 2018
The ruling rejected DHS's arguments that, since the plaintiffs alleged a variety of deficiencies in the treatment they received, the claims were not cohesive enough to warrant class certification.
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By Colby Hamilton | April 3, 2018
On each point raised by the plaintiffs, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited recent case law that showed the challenges facing litigants in class action securities cases.
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By Colby Hamilton | April 2, 2018
The suit filed in federal court is the latest in a nationwide wave of litigation over recent revelations the firm accessed 50 million user's information ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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By Charles Toutant | April 2, 2018
A proposed class action suit accuses New Jersey's courts of giving scheduling priority to criminal cases from after the 2017 enactment of the Criminal Justice Reform Act and putting off trials in older cases.
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By Mike Scarcella | March 31, 2018
"The court rejects the parties' polar opposite views of the statute, and finds the defendant liable for certain costs that post-date the passage of the E-Government Act, even though these expenses involve dissemination of information via the Internet," Huvelle wrote.
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By Erin Mulvaney | March 30, 2018
A San Francisco judge finds the allegations sufficient for class claims alleging intentional discrimination. Management-side lawyers fear the ruling could be a "blueprint" for plaintiffs to build broad class complaints.
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