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Privacy Class Actions May Be Too Big to Settle
Publication Date: 2013-10-11
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Plaintiffs appear to be in the driver's seat in two big privacy class actions against Google.

December 27, 2006 |

A Very Public Prosecutor

Two-term Attorney General Bill Lockyer pushed the office into consumer and environmental protection cases � and into the headlines.
10 minute read
July 06, 1999 |

NYC v. NYS in Securities Suit

The pension funds for New York City and New York State are fighting over control of a massive securities fraud litigation. The litigation, which will probably combine some 40 lawsuits, stems from April's 48 percent nosedive in the stock price of McKesson HBOC Inc., the nation's largest drug wholesaler. The state and city pension funds have filed competing motions to be named as lead plaintiff in the shareholder class action. At stake: Millions of dollars in fees for the winning pension funds' legal team.
5 minute read
February 19, 2002 |

Fen-Phenomenal Plaintiffs` Lawyers Seek Million Fee in Diet Drug Case

Plaintiffs` Lawyers Seek Million Fee in Diet Drug CaseIf the lead plaintiffs` lawyers in the Fen-Phen diet drug litigation get their way, the headlines a few months from now will announce that a federal judge has awarded them million in fees for the work that led to a settlement they now say is worth .75 billion to billion.
6 minute read
June 20, 2005 |

Integrity Agreements Could Spark Litigation

In 2003, medical device maker Guidant Corp. pledged to comply with a tough corporate integrity agreement after it admitted covering up thousands of cases in which its aortic stent malfunctioned. Less than two years later, Guidant was accused of failing to report an electrical flaw in an implantable defibrillator. The case may open a wedge for plaintiffs attorneys to seek punitive damages if a company becomes a repeat offender in violation of its integrity agreement.
4 minute read
August 04, 2005 |

Silica Case Seen as Breakthrough

Lawyers who defend mass torts hope to build on momentum they picked up since federal Judge Janis Graham Jack confirmed their belief that something is rotten in the state of medical screening in these cases. The case involved a large inventory of claims that gave the defendants the opportunity -- for the first time -- to analyze broader patterns, enabling them to demonstrate to the court widespread abuse in mass-screened silica claims.
5 minute read
June 08, 1999 |

Share and Share Alike

William Lerach and his brethren in the plaintiffs securities bar have long complained about the way public companies are run. They go so far as to charge that financial fraud and chicanery are rampant on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. That's why it's a little bit funny that these lawyers are heavily invested in the very companies they have sued. Increasingly, instead of taking cash for their fees, class action lawyers are accepting stock as payment.
6 minute read

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