Phil Law Weblog

A securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by the law firm of Brower Piven on behalf of shareholders who purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. between February 24, 2005 and October 2, 2006.

A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against General Electric, claiming refrigerators are defective.

The class action lawsuit, filed in 2002 on behalf of at least 40,000 New Jersey doctors claiming Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, largest health maintenance organization of New Jersey shortchanged thousands of physicians was agreed to be settled.

A lawsuit, filed by workers from Tyson’s plant in Shelbyville, between Chattanooga and Nashville, alleges that Tyson Foods Inc., the world’s largest meat producer, depressed wages by hiring illegal immigrants at eight plants in Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Texas and Virginia, was granted class action status by a federal judge.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in Victoria against the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, on behalf of seven people who claim they lost money when teachers walked off the job last fall.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh Division, on behalf of thousands of individuals and businesses in and around Apex, North Carolina against EQ Industrial Services and EQ Holding Company, alleges that the explosion and massive fire at EQ’s facility in Apex, [...]

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed, without leave to amend, a consolidated securities class action lawsuit filed against SINA Corporation, a leading online media company and mobile value-added service provider for China and for the global Chinese communities and certain of its directors and officers.

The overtime pay class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of approximately 4,500 current and former Wells Fargo employees nationwide, for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, California’s Unfair Competition Law and wage and hour laws, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act has been reached to a settlement.

A $10.4 million jury verdict has been delivered to the Caletz family for the death of their 9 year-old daughter and injuries to other members of the family suffered during an auto accident in a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District Of Illinois.

Two class action lawsuits worth about $5.2 million have been settled by the Internet payment service PayPal in an agreement with 28 U.S. state attorneys general.