Phil Law Weblog

Jason Tomczak, the lead plaintiff in the iPod nano “Scratch” class action lawsuit filed against Apple on October 19th of 2005, has written an open letter to the Mac community in an attempt to clarify his lack of involvement with the lawsuit.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency claims that it is shielded from a lawsuit accusing it of failing to provide hurricane evacuees with temporary housing by the principle of sovereign immunity, which blocks lawsuits against government agencies.

A class action lawsuit which was filed on May 11 in federal court in San Francisco by two African Americans claims that McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, Inc. systematically discriminates against Black job applicants and the lawsuit, seeks court orders to change company practices, as well as back pay and punitive damages.

Kentucky has received a $600,000 settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturers through fraudulent marketing practices which included bribing doctors to prescribe the high-priced cancer drug, Lupron, as declared by Attorney General Greg Stumbo.

U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon in Houston gave final approval to $6.6 billion settlements of claims that Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce helped Enron executives inflate earnings by hiding debt as loans.

Two class action lawsuits which allege two hospital systems charge unreasonable prices to patients who are not covered by health insurance or government programs has been reinstated by the South Dakota Supreme Court.

All securities class action lawsuits filed against AtheroGenics, Inc. and certain of its officers and directors, has been dismissed as announced by the company.

A class action lawsuit brought on behalf of purchasers of Sears, Roebuck securities during the period from October 24th 2001 through and including October 14th 2002 that had been pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and captioned In re Sears, Roebuck and Co Securities Litigation, No. 02 C [...]

A class action lawsuit has been filed against UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (”UnitedHealth” or the “Company”) (NYSE:UNH) and certain officers in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of UnitedHealth securities purchasers during the period May 4, 2001 through April 7, 2006, inclusive (the “Class Period”), for securities law violations.

Class action lawsuits were filed against Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth in United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of millions of persons in the United States who are residential customers of telephone or Internet services provided by Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth.