Phil Law Weblog

Airborne Inc., has decided to go for a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over older advertising and labeling of its dietary supplement products. Airborne has denied wrongdoing or illegal conduct in both the class action and before the Federal Trade Commission, but reached an agreement with the FTC and agreed to settle the class [...]

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the US District Court in Central Islip against the Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman Llp and one of its partners, Martin Unger. The lawsuit alleges the company of misleading documents that helped conceal the role of the two felons who ran Cobalt Multifamily Investors out of Great [...]

It seems the trouble time for Merck is far from being over. After the billion dollar American settlements, the drug maker is facing yet another lawsuit. A Canadian court has certified another class-action lawsuit against Merck & Co. over its former painkiller Vioxx.

The city of Fresno, CA, has decided to go for a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought against it by homeless residents of the city. Fresno has decided to pay $ 2.3 million for the proposed settlement. It can be recalled that the lawsuit has charged the city of violating the fourteenth amendment rights [...]

Class action lawsuit is filed against the Bell Mobility and Telus for charging fee for incoming text messages. A Quebec man Eric Cormier has brought the allegation against the two companies. He also says that by introducing the new fees, the companies have changed the terms of their cellular contracts. A separate class action [...]

Comcast, the leading provider of cable services and one of the world’s leading communications companies, is likely to face the class action lawsuit for allegedly cheating the customers by surreptitiously blocking Internet file transfers. The suit was filed July 18 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Regional Health Authority 7 faces a class action lawsuit for allegedly providing incorrect pathology work at the Miramichi Regional Hospital. The lawsuit has charged the pathologist Dr. Rajgopal Menon, in particular. The lawsuit seeks compensation on behalf of nearly 50 patients in the year 2004 and 2005. Menon was responsible for diagnostic testing of [...]

In the largest distribution of its kind, nearly two dozen charities brought home $443,000 gifts last week. They received the gifts as an unclaimed funds from a $13 million class-action settlement with the insurance company Grange Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. Dworken & Bernstein partner Patrick Perotti administered the donations, which also included $221,500 gifts for [...]

The telecommunication giant Comcast has faced a class action lawsuit for allegedly blocking users attempts to share files. Gilbert Randolph announced to have filed the lawsuit in the federal court in Portland, Ore.

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided to clear its way to the proposed multi billion-dollar class-action lawsuit on behalf of some 100,000 cattle farmers,. hurt by the 2003 mad cow scare. The court decided to hear an appeal by the federal government and Winnipeg-based feed company Ridley Canada, who sought to derail the [...]