January 16, 2013 - Stoll Berne | Attorneys | Class-Action, Securities, IP, Real Estate, Business Litigation

A class action settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Hungry Machine, Inc. d/b/a LivingSocial.com (“LivingSocial”) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The case is entitled In re LivingSocial Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, Class Action Case No. 11-mc-00472-ESH-AK. The complaint alleged that Living Social Vouchers used to redeem LivingSocial Deals are “gift certificates” and that expiration dates and other conditions applied to the Vouchers violate state and federal gift card and gift certificate regulations. Continue reading “Living Social settles class action”

On January 16, 2013, Keith Ketterling and Scott Shorr presented the program to the Oregon State Bar Securities Regulation Section.

The program was entitled: How the Oregon Supreme Court’s decision in Oregon v. Marsh & McLennan impacts the Oregon Securities Law.

The Oregon Supreme Court recently decided Oregon v. Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. This is the first time that the Supreme Court has examined the Oregon Securities Law’s new remedial section, ORS 59.137. It is also one of the few securities law cases from the Oregon Supreme Court in recent years. Keith Ketterling and Scott Shorr, discussed the elements of the remedy under ORS 59.137, the likely impact of the decision on other sections of the Oregon Securities Law, and some of the issues left open after the Marsh decision.