Recent Updates
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Sanofi says to fight class action bid
Class Action News 01/04/2008Drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis, the target of a lawsuit seeking class-action status filed on behalf of shareholders, on Friday vowed to fight allegations it hid the side-effects of its anti-obesity drug Acomplia. A Sanofi-Aventis spokesman told Reuters tha...
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Travelers Cos. class action suit settled
Class Action News 01/02/2008[##_1L|1356684586.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Florida, eight other states and the District of Columbia announced they have reached a settlement with the Travelers Cos. in what they said was a "pay-to-play" scheme orchestrated by insurance ...
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Search Giants Face Class-Action Lawsuit
Class Action News 01/02/2008Legal partnership Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro (HBSS) has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against Google and Yahoo! along with several other popular websites for damages. The class-action lawsuit relates to the searc...
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Stuck Passengers Sue American Airlines
Class Action News 01/01/2008Two passengers who were kept aboard American Airlines jets on the ground for more than nine hours in 2006 have sued the airline, saying they deserve compensation for being imprisoned against their will. The plaintiffs, Kathleen Hanni of Napa, Calif.,...
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Travelers Cos. settles class action suit
Class Action News 12/31/2007Property-casualty insurer Travelers Cos. Inc. said Monday it settled a class action lawsuit for an undisclosed amount, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The lawsuit, brought by certain shareholders of the company, alle...
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Basin Water in Rancho Cucamonga sued by shareholders
Class Action News 12/27/2007A San Diego law firm has launched a class-action suit against Rancho Cucamonga-based Basin Water Inc., alleging that it misled shareholders, causing the company's stock price to rise to inflated heights, leading to losses for investors when the stock...
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American Home Could Face Class Action
Class Action News 12/18/2007Former American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. loan officers want a bankruptcy judge to let them alert thousands of other ex-employees that they may be entitled to collect from the failed company for allegedly overworking and underpaying them.Court p...
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UBS Subject of Subprime-Related Lawsuit
Class Action News 12/16/2007[##_1L|1370222128.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]UBS is facing a class action lawsuit, which alleges the financial services company misled investors by issuing materially false and misleading statements about the company's financial conditio...
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American Tower Settles Class Action Suit
Class Action News 12/16/2007American Tower Corp. said Thursday that it will pay $14 million to settle a consolidated securities class action filed against the company in May 2006 that concerns its historical stock option granting practices and related accounting.The broadcast a...
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Judge OKs $57.5M Sprint stock settlement
Class Action News 12/13/2007[##_1L|1288012319.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]A state judge on Wednesday approved a $57.5 million settlement that ends a class-action lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp. over how it combined its wireless and wireline stocks three years ag...
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San Jose weighs limits on class-action claims
Class Action News 12/11/2007[##_1L|1291027780.jpg|width="120" height="138" alt=""|_##]The San Jose City Council today will consider new rules for filing claims that a prominent local lawyer says is an attempt to block class actions. "It's very interesting that this proposal is ...
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Class Action Filed Against Genesco, Inc.
Class Action News 12/10/2007Law Offices Bernard M. Gross, P.C. announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 07cv1183, on behalfof purchasers of the common stock of Genesco, Inc.("Genesco" or t...