Phil Law Weblog

Apple decided to replace the defective batteries that were installed in more than 1 million iPods.

The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that IBM’s (the world’s largest technology services company) 1999 pension plan changes, affecting the company’s roughly 140,000 employees in the United States, were “age-neutral.” The ruling reverses a lower court decision in 2003 that said the shift discriminated against older workers.

An application to reconsider and clarify parts of Florida Supreme Court’s decision last month to dismiss a $145 billion punitive damage award for injuring smokers has been made in the Florida Supreme Court by Philip Morris USA and other major tobacco companies.

The Women’s Legal Centre in South Africa is preparing to launch its first public interest class action to have the way in which concealment of birth cases are handled changed.

A $47 million class action lawsuit has been filed Leimen-Schlissel, the company which markets the candy Tic-Tac, for not having a valid kosher certificate.

A medical malpractice lawsuit, asks for $1.25 million in compensatory and punitive damages, has been filed in Lake County Superior Court, by Ivelisse Martinez against a Munster doctor and the residing hospital, claiming the doctor’s credentials were misrepresented.

A $6 million proposed class action settlement against San Diego-based Advanced Marketing Services Inc. has got preliminary approval by the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

A $35 million class action settlement against CNL Hotels & Resorts has been approved by a federal judge in Orlando.

King Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit alleging violations of securities laws in connection with the company’s underpayment of rebates owed to Medicaid and other government programs for $38 million.

A class action lawsuit filed against the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute last November, each with the same goal to ensure the survival of the organization while forcing it to make good on its promises, may be close to a settlement.