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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.

Harris Stratex Networks Inc.faces a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The lawsuit charges the company and some of its officers and directors of violating the securities law.

The Law Offices of Aronberg & Aronberg announces that it has filed a class action lawsuit in Palm Beach County, Florida on September 15, 2008, on behalf of all Florida customers of Citigroup/Smith Barney brokerage who were improperly placed into Fannie Mae stock in 2008.

The New York-based law firm of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on behalf of investors who bought MEMC common stock between June 13 and July 23 of this year.

The age old reputation of the Auto Cool company has come under severe scrutiny when a class action lawsuit was filed against the company. The lawsuit charged the company of false promise it made under an advertising campaign. The advt. promises that the Auto Cool would keep the interior of your car nice and cool, [...]

In a rare incident of its kind the builders and developers of Stockton had raised their voices against the Stockton’s landmark General Plan. The environment body Sierra Club has filed a class action lawsuit that charges the plan of harming the environment and the economic standing of downtown. And California Attorney General Jerry Brown, similarly [...]

In a settlement with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the retailer Target Corp. has revamp its Web site to make it more accessible for the blind and pay $6 million in damages to plaintiffs who joined a class action lawsuit against them.

China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc is likely to face a class action lawsuit from all the purchasers of its common stock during the period from July 23, 2007 through and including August 20, 2008. However, no class has yet been certified in the above action.

The class action lawsuit is a popular legal approach in several countries. A young lawyer can virtually make his career with the help of a single class action lawsuit.