Peters took her case to small claims after opting out of a class action settlement.
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Wyeth shares tumbled today after the firm reported that more people than expected have opted out of a class-action settlement related to the diet drugs Redux and Pondimin, which were pulled from the market in 1997 after they were linked to heart problems.
In Oxford, the judges must decide whether an arbitrator was out of line by allowing a class action to proceed on behalf of some 20, 000 doctors even though there was no provision for class actions in the arbitration agreement between doctors and Oxford.
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Importantly, the initiation of this proceeding also carries out the course of action prescribed by the Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act of 2012 for expanding spectrum for unlicensed use.
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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals today threw out a class-action settlement that would have paid the lawyers who negotiated it more than four times as much as their clients.
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To get in on that potential windfall, however, you'll have to sign yourself up as part of the class action on the website linked below, where you can also opt out of the suit if you so choose.
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Comcast won a major victory at the U.S. Supreme Court today when the court threw out an antitrust class action that accused the cable operator of illegally raising prices in the Philadelphia market.
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If these improprieties had taken place at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, C-level executives would have been frog marched out of their office buildings in handcuffs and a flood of shareholder class action lawsuits would have been filed in state and federal courts across the nation.
The consultants get out of the deal with their dough before any money is paid to borrowers and any class action lawsuits are filed that claim borrowers were cheated by the process.
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Business has less riding on this case than it did before 2005, when Congress passed the Class Action Fairness Act making it much easier to pull class actions out of state court into the federal system.
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It would not be out of place to refer to the mess that Armstrong finds himself in as a massive metaphoric class-action suit brought about by disgusted onlookers.
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Perhaps conflict may rear its head once more if the class action produces a big bundle of money, and the time comes to sort out who gets how much of it.
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The writer, director, and editor, John Sayles, lays out the action so that every class and ethnic group participates in the corruption and the possible redemption of fictional Hudson City, New Jersey.
And the President was out there and will continue to be out there calling on Congress to take action on the middle-class tax cut, extending it for 98 percent of American taxpayers.
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