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The South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs is warning consumers not to fall for a class action lawsuit scam involving some unknown person or persons.

A recent UK-based Goal Group study has found Asians are deprived of chances of joining class action lawsuits and missing billions of dollars in this way. The worst sufferers are institutional investors in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong as they can not participate in US securities class action litigation.

Finally the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the University of Phoenix has come to a settlement. The University of Phoenix and its parent company will pay $1.88 million for the settlement.

West  Brookfield Water Department decided to use the settlement share worth  $1 million. It is a part of the town’s $2.5 million share of a nationwide lawsuit settlement stemming from lawsuit against MTBE.

Finally, a relief time for the Southern Nevada Health District. District Court Judge Allan Earl has rejected Eugenia Hedstrom’s idea of filing a class action lawsuit against them. It can be added that she decided to file lawsuit after notified last winter by health officials that she should get tested for hepatitis and HIV. [...]

As a result of overseas financial losses, local financial organizations are facing lawsuits. Such funds suffered steep losses over the past few months on the back of the collapse of stock markets both at home and abroad coupled with a sharp depreciation of the local currency against the U.S. dollar.

A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday in the United States District Court of New York by Berger & Montague (”Berger”)on behalf of all purchasers of American Depository Shares (evidenced by American Depository Receipts) of Elan Corporation PLC (”elan” or the “Company”) and all purchasers of options to purchase Elan securities during the period of [...]

Several families have brought a class-action lawsuit against the Warren Funeral Chapel, alleging that the funeral of their loved ones is being mishandled and lost by Warren Funeral Chapel. They alleges that they have still not been able to locate where their loved ones were moved.

A class action lawsuit was filed against Madison school district for discrimination against a white, female student who wanted to transfer from East High School using open enrollment.The parent of the student has filed the lawsuit. It’s a class-action lawsuit demanding restitution for all students who may have been denied open enrollment, based on race.

World’s leading videogame publisher, Electronic Arts, is being sued by videogame fans for the way it has handled the digital rights-management software built into its new game, Spore.