By Charles Toutant | October 30, 2020
The agreement ends a suit filed more than seven years ago that claimed Global Tel Link charged inmates up to 100 times the market rate for phone calls.
By Michael A. Mora | October 29, 2020
In a class action settlement involving Godiva Chocolatier, the appellate court held that a "party does not have standing to sue when it pleads only the bare violation of a statute."
By Michael A. Mora | October 29, 2020
As a result of this ruling, Scott N. Wagner said that class-action attorneys would be looking for other jurisdictions in which to bring similar lawsuits.
By Meganne Tillay | October 29, 2020
The firm is launching a claim on behalf of almost a million users in England and Wales who were affected by the scandal.
By R. Robin McDonald | October 28, 2020
Wednesday's en banc ruling over a $6.3 million settlement by Godiva Chocolatier stemming from alleged violations of the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act garnered three strong dissents.
By R. Robin McDonald | October 28, 2020
The rejection of a $6.3 million settlement by Godiva Chocolatier for alleged violations of the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act erases the case from the docket of U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas after five years.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 28, 2020
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Tort Reform Association called the public nuisance case that led to last year's $465 million opioid judgment against Johnson & Johnson a "new species of super tort" that could wipe out swaths of established law.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas E.L. Dewey | October 28, 2020
Public policy generally prohibits class action settlements in which the attorney fee awards dwarf the amount awarded to the class. But a recent case illustrates that such a settlement may be approved if it is structured so that class counsel's award does not come at the class's expense.
By Alaina Lancaster | October 26, 2020
In the two separate lawsuits, Uber drivers claim that the company is pressuring them to support Proposition 22 and that its star rating system is discriminatory against nonwhite drivers.
By Vanessa Blum | Ross Todd | October 23, 2020
Fresh off a $650 million privacy settlement with Facebook, Chicago plaintiffs lawyer Jay Edelson says his firm is coping with pandemic malaise by "jumping into huge issues that really matter to people."
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