A California federal judge has certified a nationwide class action on behalf of of consumers claiming that Conair Corp. breached its implied warranty by selling them hair dryers that caught on fire.
Auto dealer who is also a congressman gets an amendment to a bill passed that allows auto dealers to rent cars subject to safety recalls. I am not making this up. Here is the article.
Stoll Berne lawyers Mark Friel and Keith Dubanevich worked with Barry S. Taus, Brett Cebulash and Kevin S. Landau of Taus Cebulash & Landau LLP and other firms to prosecute the long running litigation.
Multiple electronics makers have agreed to settle with a class of direct purchasers in a class action pending in California federal court.
A Florida federal judge gave final approval to a settlement of up to $20 million to be paid by Anheuser-Busch after it was accused by a putative class of consumers of marketing domestically brewed Beck’s beer as a German import.
On October 31, 2015, when part 1 of a New York Times Article was published (which we recently posted on the blog), it was shared so vigorously and read by so many people that the word “arbitration” was actually trending on TWITTER.
The New York Times investigative report details how corporations have stacked the deck against consumers by using arbitration clauses with class action bans.
Consumers who use RushCards to purchase groceries, gas and pay for other expenses recently were unable to use their cards for cash withdrawals or purchases, and some reported that their account balances did not include recent pay deposits and reported erroneous balances.
Japanese car parts manufacturer, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. has agreed to pay $50 million to exit multidistrict litigation brought by purchasers of automobiles who accuse a group of automotive wire harness and heater control panel suppliers of price-fixing.
Fujikura Ltd. and T.Rad Co. Ltd. have agreed to collectively pay more than $14.5 million to end-payors in the sprawling multidistrict litigation against auto parts makers, bringing total recoveries for the plaintiff group to nearly $200 million.
Volkswagen was hit with at least nine more class actions on Monday and Tuesday by U.S. drivers seeking damages for diesel-burning autos that the manufacturer touted as environmentally friendly, but that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently revealed were designed to fool emissions tests.
Six foam manufacturers, including market leaders, Carpenter Co. and Leggett & Platt Inc.,have agreed to pay a combined $128.5 million to settle with indirect purchasers and exit multidistrict litigation accusing the companies of plotting to fix prices.
An Idaho federal judge has signed off on preliminary agreements between potato growers and classes of direct and indirect purchasers that would settle various antitrust claims for $25 million.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon has appointed Keith Dubanevich, Steve Larson, and Mark Friel as liaison counsel to represent a putative class of Premera health plan subscribers.
The Seventh Circuit has held that Neiman Marcus customers affected by a hacking incident are likely to suffer some form of future fraud.
Last month the plaintiffs of five Wells Fargo overdraft fee class action lawsuits won class certification for their cases.
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and other pharmaceutical companies are defendants in multidistrict litigation where it is alleged they engaged in a pay-for-delay scheme over the stroke drug Aggrenox.
A number of electronics makers, including Philips Electronics North America Corp., Panasonic Corp., Samsung SDI Co. Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba and others, have agreed to pay $528 million to settle class action claims that they fixed cathode ray tube (“CRTs”) prices.
On June 8, the plaintiffs of five Wells Fargo overdraft fee class action lawsuits won class certification for their cases.
Wells Fargo Bank and plaintiffs that had incurred excessive overdrafts returned for oral arguments before U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King after a two-year pause while Wells Fargo appealed his ruling that its waiver of its right to compel arbitration against the named plaintiffs carries over to the unnamed plaintiffs.
