By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 25, 2017
A court memorandum found that the settlement program resulting from multidistrict litigation after an Amtrak wreck, achieved fair, reasonable and adequate compensation consistent with equal treatment of all claimants and kept administrative expenses to a 0.00418 percent of the settlement fund.
By Jenna Greene | August 24, 2017
Hotel chain La Quinta can rest easy after a team from Simpson Thacher and Bartlett got a would-be securities fraud class action in the Southern District of New York dismissed with prejudice on Thursday.
By Greg Land | August 24, 2017
Lawyers for Wells Fargo Bank squared off against those representing what they hope remains a class of plaintiffs challenging the bank's overdraft practices at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 24, 2017
A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement that will provide drivers of defective BMW 6-series convertibles with roughly $8.6 million in compensation.
By Max Mitchell | August 23, 2017
Rejecting an expert's findings as "nothing more than a radiation version of the impermissible 'any breath' theory," a federal appeals court in Pennsylvania has blocked attempts to revive more than 70 cases alleging that a defunct nuclear power plant caused the plaintiffs' cancer.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | August 23, 2017
Claims of Favorable Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements Were Sufficient to Constitute Allegation of Anticompetitive Activity
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | August 23, 2017
Class Certification Erroneously Denied for Lack of Ascertainability; Defendants' Records, Putative Members' Affidavits Could Feasibly Establish Membership
By Amanda Bronstad | August 22, 2017
The latest attempt at "picking off" a lead plaintiff in a class action got shot down on Tuesday—and by the same circuit that rejected a similar move earlier this summer.
By Ross Todd | August 22, 2017
Objectors are hoping to create a circuit split to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether settlements that only fund charitable organizations are appropriate in class actions.
By B. Colby Hamilton | August 17, 2017
Calling the $1.72 trillion international stock loan market good for the banks that do the lending but "bad for virtually everyone else," a trio of pension funds filed a class action suit against six of the world's largest financial firms Thursday.
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