Recent Updates
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Shareholder class action hits Leighton
Class Action News 09/01/2011Shareholders set to take legal action against Leighton over alleged failures to properly report a $907 million turnaround in financial performance. Law firm Maurice Blackburn on Thursday said it intended to launch a class action against the company, ...
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Shareholder Class Action Filed Against WebMD Health Corp.
Class Action News 08/30/2011The following statement was issued today by the law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP: Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of pu...
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Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuits
Class Action News 08/26/2011The law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is investigating potential securities law violations as alleged in class action lawsuits brought on behalf of all purchasers of American Depository Shares (“ADS”) of SinoTech Energy Limite...
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Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces Class Action
Class Action News 08/25/2011Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (“Penson Worldwide” or the “Company”) between February 10, 2011 and August 4, 2011, inclus...
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Berman DeValerio Announces Securities Class Action
Class Action News 08/23/2011The law firm of Berman DeValerio filed a securities class action lawsuit today against Miller Energy Resources, Inc. The lawsuit alleges violations of United States securities laws on behalf of purchasers of common stock from December 16, 2009 throug...
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NY court rejects $18M class action writers deal
Class Action News 08/18/2011A federal appeals court in New York has rejected an $18 million class action settlement reached after freelance writers sued publishers. The writers had said their copyrights were infringed upon when their works were reprinted online without permissi...
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No class-action for suits over Calif. fish kill
Class Action News 08/09/2011An appeals court has rejected class-action status for a lawsuit prompted by efforts to kill off an invasive fish in Northern California. The Sacramento Bee says the 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled last week that people suing the state had too litt...
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Bank of Hawaii settles overdraft fee class-action lawsuit
Class Action News 07/20/2011A tentative $9 million settlement with Bank of Hawaii requires the bank to pay each of its customers who had more than one overdraft fee in a day over the last five years. Bank of Hawaii, the state's second-largest bank, reached the class-action laws...
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Ryan & Maniskas, LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit
Class Action News 07/16/2011Ryan & Maniskas, LLP (www.rmclasslaw.com/cases/ebix) announces that it has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Ebix, Inc. ("Ebix" or...
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Soldiers seek foreclosures class action
Class Action News 07/15/2011Lawyers said they hope to get class action certification in New York for an increasing number of active-duty U.S. soldiers fighting mortgage foreclosures. A federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in New York alleges CitiMortgage should have...
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WaMu settles class action suit for $208.5 million
Class Action News 07/01/2011Washington Mutual Inc. and its fellow defendants have agreed to pay $208.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from the lender's collapse in 2008, the biggest U.S. bank failure in history.The defendants and lead plaintiff Ontario Teache...
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Decision in Wal-Mart case a blow to class actions
Class Action News 06/21/2011Mounting a large-scale bias claim against a huge company will be more difficult in light of a Supreme Court decision that found no convincing proof of discrimination on which to allow a class action against retail giant Wal-Mart on behalf of as many ...