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Los Angeles, CA: A $475,000 settlement has been approved ending an California employment class action lawsuit pending against Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. The lawsuit was brought by nearly 1,000 past and current Trump golf course employees who alleged non-payment for missed meal and rest breaks. Some employees said they were not... - Preliminary Settlement Reached in LuckyBrand Spam Texts Class Action Lawsuit
San Francisco, CA: A federal judge has preliminarily approved a $9.9 million settlement of a class action lawsuit filed against Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. and its marketing subcontractors. The lawsuit alleged the clothing company was in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) because it sent unsolicited text spam as part of a 2008 ba... - April 2007 Big Pharma Litigation Update - Drugs (Part I)
Apr-5-07 Washington, DC: For the last two decades, illegal drug marketing schemes have paid off well for Big Pharma. However, as the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end, and every major drug company is currently involved in massive litigation. Some companies are facing thousands of lawsuits with a common complaint that the drug maker deliberatel... - Motorola Reaches $200M Settlement in Securities Lawsuit
New York, NY: A $200 million settlement has been reached with Motorola Solutions Inc, bringing to an end a securities lawsuit filed in 2007 by company shareholders. Motorola has denied any wrongdoing. The securities lawsuit, filed before Motorola split into two companies last year, alleged the electronics manufacturer had artificially inflated i... - Amazon Flash Cookie Class Action Lawsuit Settlement Reached
San Francisco, CA: A settlement has been agreed between Amazon.com and plaintiffs who filed a Flash cookie class action lawsuit against the online retailer in 2011. The lawsuit alleges Amazon.com circumvents the privacy settings of Internet Explorer users. The lawsuit, entitled Del Vecchio v. Amazon, (Case No. C11-366RSL) claims that custom... - Silicon Valley Settles Tech Engineer Salary Fixing Class Action for $324M
San Francisco, CA: Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Inc and Adobe Systems Inc have reached a pre-trial settlement of $324 million, potentially ending an antitrust and unfair business practices class action lawsuit that brought by Silicon Valley tech engineers. The lawsuit alleged that the four tech giants conspired to hold down salaries in Silicon Va... - AllianceBernstein Employees Win $2.98M Employment Class Action Lawsuit Settlement
New York, NY: A $2.98 million settlement has been reached in the four-year-old employment class action lawsuit filed by AllianceBernstein employees who allege the investment management company of miscategorized them as overtime-exempt even though they held clerical jobs. According to a memo filed in New York federal court, the employees' attorneys... - Makers of Zyprexa Risperdal and Seroquel Under Fire
Mar-9-07 Washington, DC: Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca, are all named defendants in a new lawsuit filed by the state of Pennsylvania on February 26, 2007, to recover money paid through public health care programs to purchase Zyprexa , Risperdal, and Seroquel, and the costs of medical care for the people injured by these drugs. Pennsylvania... - Pfizer to Pay $190M in Neurontin Class Action Settlement
New York, NY: A $190M settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Pfizer which alleges the pharma giant engaged in tactics to delay market entry of generic versions of its epilepsy drug Neurontin. The lawsuit was filed by purchasers of Neurontin in 2002, claiming Pfizer undertook campaign of sham patent infri... - AuRico Gold Reaches $13.25M Settlement in Securities Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: AuRico Gold Inc. (TSX: T.AUQ, Stock Forum) (NYSE: AUQ, Stock Forum) has reached a settlement deal related to a securities class action lawsuit that was launched in 2008 when the company was known as Gammon Gold. The settlement agreement, which provides for a payment of $13.25 million to the settlement class, does not contain any adm... - State Farm Accident Surcharge
Feb-28-07 Los Angeles, CA: State Farm Auto Insurance policy holders who live in California and who purchased policies between 1997 and 2002 may be eligible for reimbursement if they paid an accident surcharge on their policies. The accident surcharge, also referred to as a Non-Verifiable Accident Record Surcharge, is illegal in California. It was charged as an... - Another lawsuit filed against Eli Lilly's Zyprexa
Feb-25-07 Chicago, IL: Eli Lilly faces yet another court appearance to defend its anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa after a lawsuit was filed late last month in Illinois. The plaintiff filed the lawsuit claiming he now suffers from diabetes and permanent bodily and mental harm after taking Zyprexa. He also argues that his illness has caused mental anguish, emotiona... - More Zyprexa Postcards From the Edge
Feb-18-07 Washington, DC: On February 13, 2007, Judge Jack Weinstein issued a permanent injunction, prohibiting attorney, Jim Gottstein, and Dr David Egilman, an expert witness in litigation involving Zyprexa , from further disseminating certain Eli Lilly documents that were sealed with a court order until Mr Gottstein released them to the media in December 2006... - Thin Screen TV Makers Investigated for Antitrust Violations
Feb-16-07 Cincinnati, OH: Several makers of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) televisions and monitors are under investigation for breaking anti-trust laws by allegedly fixing the prices of their televisions. The investigations are being carried out by the United States Department of Justice, Korea's Fair Trade Commission, and Japan's Fair... - LivingSocial Agrees $4.5M Settlement in Consumer Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: A $4.5 million settlement has been agreed in the consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against LivingSocial Inc. The lawsuit alleges that the daily deals company put expiration dates on its coupons. The lawsuit was filed approximately six months after Groupon Inc was hit with a similar lawsuit. Filed in April 2011by Melissa F... - BMW Mini Cooper Defective Transmission Class Action Settlement
San Francisco, CA: Preliminary approval of a defective automotive class action settlement has been granted, potentially ending the lawsuit pending against BMW over allegations the German auto-maker concealed a defect in the transmission of its Mini Cooper cars. US District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez, who is hearing the complaint, (Aarons v. BMW of... - Takeda to Pay $6B Settlement in Actos Cancer Lawsuits
Lafayette, LA: Japanese drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, has been ordered to pay $6 billion in punitive damages in settlement of allegations the company concealed information regarding the risk for cancer associated with its diabetes drug Actos. Eli Lilly and Co, a co-defendant in the case, was ordered to pay $3 billion in punitive damages a... - Morgan Keegan Agrees $62M Settlement in Investment Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. has agreed to pay $62 million as part of a preliminary settlement of a securities class action involving more than 10,000 nationwide clients. The Commercial Appeal reports the terms of the settlement won't force the investment firm to admit any wrongdoing resulting from the 2008 meltdown of its mutual funds. ... - Trasylol Studies Terminated
Jan-30-07 Boston, MA: In response to FDA-approved label changes for Trasylol , Bayer HealthCare has announced it will terminate three studies meant to expand the use of the drug. Trasylol is used to reduce blood loss during coronary artery bypass surgery. The studies included examining the effectiveness of the drug in patients undergoing elective spinal fusion s... - Eli Lilly The Habitual Offender
Jan-25-07 Indianapolis, IN: The revelations that Eli Lilly concealed the side effects of Zyprexa and promoted the drug for unapproved uses is not newly discovered misconduct. It is a persistent pattern of conduct indicative of a nasty habit that needs breaking. After the secret company documents were leaked to the press last month by attorney, Jim Gottstein,...