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May-22-08 Los Angeles, CA A car wash chain with an alleged history of employment law violations faces their day in court. Earlier today, attorneys from the law firm Bush Gottlieb and Bet Tzedek Legal Services announced their intent to file a class action lawsuit against car wash owners and brothers Benny and Nisan Pirian for alleged employment law violations. T... - Hutchinson Technology: Damages Awarded in Unpaid Wages Suit
May-21-08 St. Paul, MN: A year-long bitter court battle between Hutchinson Technology and current and former employees of its production plants has reached a tentative settlement. The lawsuit was over alleged unpaid wages at Hutchinson Technology's Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin plants. Approximately 5,600 production employees were involved in the lawsuit... - Chinese Daily News in LA: Workers Exploited, but Fought Back
Apr-14-08 Los Angeles, CA: Imagine 17-hours days with few breaks, if any, and no overtime pay. If you complained, you were told that there was someone ready and willing to take your job. Such is an example of the deplorable work requirements alleged in a class-action lawsuit that recently resulted in a $5.19 million dollar award to the workers of The Chinese Daily New... - Asbestos: One Man's Story
Mar-26-08 Stainforth, UK He may live half a world away, but Dennis Beddoes is a classic example of not only the health hazards of asbestos , but also of the typical delay governing the onset of asbestos-related diseases such as cancer, asbestosis and asbestos mesothelioma. The 70-year-old retired shipbuilder from Stainforth, England suddenly developed a persiste... - Credit Card Abuse: Like Your Balance, it Keeps Going On, and on, and...
Feb-21-08 Washington, DC It's hardly surprising that credit card defaults have risen 30 percent, given the challenges consumers face simply navigating the minefield of fees, penalties and other questionable practices amounting to credit card abuse . In a society increasingly moving away from cash, credit card companies have been earning a justified reputation... - California Labor Law: One employee cites three Violations
Dec-12-07 San Francisco, CA Brenda Cain worked the nightshift at a bank for eight years. For the first five years she and her co-workers didn't get a lunch break—ever. "We could have breaks, long enough to smoke a cigarette but then we had to get back to our desks because they had deadlines to meet," says Cain (not her real name). It is unbelievable that the b... - California Labor Law: Jerry Brown Gets Tough on Rogue Companies that Don't Pay
Nov-6-07 Sacramento, CA In California, state Attorney General Jerry Brown has signaled a harsher stance on employers exploiting workers in contravention to California Labor Laws , by launching a lawsuit against Brinas Corp. on November 1st. The lawsuit alleges that the Colorado-based contractor underpaid employees, failed to pay taxes and the required workers'... - Reservist Fired After Military Deployment
Aug-14-07 Lewiston, ID Matthew Fillion served in the Navy for 18 years. Then he got an IT job at the University of Idaho, with the agreement that he would be deployed one week a month. "I'm here to serve the needs of the Navy, and that was understood the moment I was hired," says Fillion. But his employers didn't keep their end of the bargain. Instead, he was fired... - Whistleblowers Uncover a Flood of Wrongdoing
Jun-13-07 New Orleans, LA Whistleblowers can take on many forms - from the tough-talking advocate to the quietly courageous, both seeing a wrong and, come hell or high water, just has to say something about it. Dara Fresco falls into the latter category. On the day in early June that she launched her Cdn. $600 million class action lawsuit against CIBC Bank in C... - Giant Law Firm loses California Labor Code case with Paralegal
Jun-5-07 Los Angeles, CA One of the largest law firms in the world has been brought to its knees by a woman who used to work for them as a paralegal. The international law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, based in Los Angeles, has 13 offices worldwide and more than 1,000 lawyers in its employ. It has been around since 1885, and has had many notable partners throu... - California Labor Lawsuit: Help for Latino workers
May-18-07 Los Angeles, CA California labor law plaintiffs have just received a great boost from activists.The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and civil rights lawyer Bill Lann Lee announced May 16 that they are both joining a California labor law class action filed by more than one thousand construction workers, most of whom are Latinos,... - Whistleblowers: The Results could be Rewarding
May-13-07 Middletown, NY The world needs a few more good whistleblowers. And the payoff can be more lucrative than the good feeling that you've done something right - something worthwhile. Beyond the warm glow of a good deed done, may lay a pot of gold in the form of settlement dollars. Especially if you have been wronged in the process. And for you there are r... - To Sears and your Fridge, I'm Done with You
May-5-07 Seattle, WA: Okay, I know that we live in a throw-away society. There's so much money floating around, and there is so little time to spare that we don't fix anything any more. We just replace it. It's easier. Less muss, less fuss. But is that to suggest that the manufacturers need to actually buy into this? Does it give them licence to make inferior pr... - Lawsuits Claim FedEx Discriminates Based On Age
Apr-6-07 Memphis, TN: Federal Express (FedEx) is defending itself against two lawsuits that claim the company engages in age discrimination. Discrimination based on age is illegal and victims of the practice can file lawsuits to try to recover any money lost as a result of the discrimination. One of the lawsuits, Clausnitzer et. al. v. FedEx, claims that FedEx... - Criminal Prosecution of Lilly Sought Over Zyprexa
Jan-4-07 California Attorney, Ted Chabasinski, is calling for the criminal prosecution of Eli Lilly executives for hiding the adverse effects of Zyprexa , based in part on articles last month in the New York Times which quote internal company documents that revealed that Lilly knew about the adverse effects for a decade but kept the information hidden. Mr Chab... - Independent Contractors don't benefit from California Labor Laws
Nov-7-06 San Jose, CA Preeti Dave never got paid for the six months she moonlighted as an independent contractor. "I want to let others know what I learned from this: be careful when you are promised a lot; read the contract and remember that you don't have the department of labor to protect you," she says. "I was so naïve". "I found a job posting on Craig'... - Personal Injury: Individual or class action lawsuit?
Aug-26-06 When most people think of personal injury lawsuits, they probably picture serious life-and-death situations. In some cases, such as recent SUV roll-over lawsuits, this is indeed the case. However, there are also incidents of personal injury that do not involve life-threatening situations. In fact, personal injury involves more than physical pain. It inclu... - Boston Scientific Won Guidant - What A Prize
Jul-24-06 In the second quarter of 2006, Boston Scientific may have lost 27% of its value, but in the first quarter, it did win a nearly two month bidding war with Johnson and Johnson over the heart device maker, Guidant, with a bid of $27.5 billion for the grand prize. It probably seemed like a great deal when the bidding started. Guidant's heart device division... - Drug Companies Still Peddling Risperdal and Zyprexa For Off-Label Use
Jun-17-06 According to Kelly O'Meara, author of the newly released book, Psyched Out, America has a drug problem. "It's not as covert as those illicit and illegal "Just Say No" drugs," she says, "but, rather, Americans have become drug users by way of being diagnosed as suffering from one or a number of alleged mental disorders." "Sharing one's feelings with a doc... - Stock Options and Your Retirement Fund: Is Your Employer Obeying ERISA?
Jan-26-06 A number of lawsuits have been launched against companies who don't follow the laws around stock options, 401k plans and retirement funds. ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, has special rules for companies that offer stock options as a retirement plan investment. This includes a company's fiduciary duties to their employees. Simply put,...