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July 11, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Consumer Class Actions Usurping Personal Injury Claims

Plaintiffs lawyers are filing more class actions against companies under state consumer-protection laws in conjunction with, or even in place of, traditional personal injury class actions, which have become too difficult to certify. Defense lawyers say injury-related consumer class actions have grown as the plaintiffs bar has sought out new "lucrative" areas for monetary relief. But plaintiffs lawyers say the suits are a different "avenue of relief" for an economic, rather than physical, injury.
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Oce Printing Servs. v. Mailer Data Servs.
Publication Date: 2000-06-22
Practice Area: antitrust | civil practice : state | class actions | litigation | torts
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Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
Judge: CAMPBELL, A.C.J., STRINGER, J., PARKER, Judge
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For plaintiff: Marvin E. Barkin, et al.
For defendant: Aubrey O. Dicus and Stephen J. Wein, et al.
Case number: No. 2D99-3531

PARKER, Judge.In this appeal, the appellants challenge the trial court's order certifying three separate nationwide classes in this complex antitrust case broughtunder the Florida Antitrust Act

October 19, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Novel strategy pays off big in lead contamination liability case

TO BREAK THE paint industry's 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance. The long march in what popularly has been called the Rhode Island lead paint case began in 1999.
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Lead Paint Makers Hope to Carry on Winning Streak
Publication Date: 2013-07-12
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A bench trial begins on Monday in San Jose in a suit that accuses five major corporations of creating a public nuisance by manufacturing and promoting lead-based paint despite knowledge it was harmful. Ten cities and counties in California are demanding nearly $1 billion in cleanup costs.

October 09, 2006 | National Law Journal

Novel strategy pays off big

To break the paint industry's 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance.
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August 30, 2004 | National Law Journal

Movers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Murry B. Cohen, a former justice on the Texas 1st Court of Appeals in Houston, joins as partner in the firm's Houston office�and other notable personnel shifts.
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Stanfield Offshore Leveraged Assets, Ltd. v Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
Publication Date: 2009-07-21
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Case number: 4609 4609A 4609B

Mazzarelli, J.P., Buckley, McGuire, DeGrasse, JJ. 4609-4609A-4609B Index 601410/07 Stanfield Offshore Leveraged Assets, Ltd., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v

Amaranth LLC v J.P. Morgan Chase Co.
Publication Date: 2009-11-05
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Case number: 274

Luiz A. Gonzalez, P.J. Peter Tom John W. Sweeny, Jr. James M. Catterson Dianne T. Renwick, JJ. 274 Ind. 603756/07 Amaranth LLC, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Respondents,/p

June 03, 2013 | The Recorder

Long-Running Lead Paint Suit Clears Hurdle

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County of Santa Clara et al. v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County (Atlantic Richfield Company)
Publication Date: 2010-07-26
Practice Area: Government
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Case number: No. S163681

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9363COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY,

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