Wal-Mart is currently appealing against a decision to grant class-action status to a gender-discrimination lawsuit being brought against it.
Murray noted that the Louisiana court also has the latitude to find that there are insufficient grounds for class-action status.
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The lawsuit seeks national class action status and would be comprised of independent operators of some 200, 000 ATMs in the United States.
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The plaintiffs won class-action status that could blow their ranks all the way up to 1.6 million, though Wal-Mart is appealing that decision.
Becnel was seeking class-action status for a lawsuit he's filed over the failure of the levees on the 17th Street and the London Street canals.
The school filed a countersuit alleging that Makaeff's claims were defamatory and sought dismissal of her lawsuit that seeks class-action status on behalf of thousands of students.
But according to a new lawsuit, granted the right to request class-action status last week by U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Washington, D.
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The plaintiffs are also seeking class action status so that all female employees at their levels could receive damages if Goldman is found guilty or decides to settle.
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Also hurting the plaintiff's case, according to Campagnino and others, was the lack of similar damages across the population of light cigarette purchasers, making class action status difficult.
In June, a federal court will decide whether a suit brought against the NCAA by former athletes, including UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, will be granted class-action status.
The Keepseagle case was granted class-action status in 2001.
Declaring class-action status for the lawsuit raises the financial and judicial stakes considerably, since more individual plaintiffs can now join, creating greater potential liability for the company being sued.
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On Tuesday a Federal District Court in Manhattan allowed The Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE: RBS) to side-step a potentially crushing blow when it denied plaintiffs class certification, or class-action status.
On June 20, a federal judge in California will consider whether to grant the case class-action status, which would then enable it to include many thousands of current and former NCAA athletes.
Other cases will seek to achieve class action status, and if even one succeeds then banks and defendants in the innumerable pending cases spawned by the mortgage market meltdown are likely to take it on the chin.
In that suit, the Kings County Superior Court judge denied the request for class-action status, ruling that Microsoft had taken sufficient care to ensure its product worked as advertised, and threw the suit out of court, Murray said.
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The retailer denies it discriminated against women and says the case should not be granted class-action status because the plaintiffs' claims are too varied to proceed together, making it difficult for the company to mount a defense in a single case.
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On May 31, a panel of judges from multiple districts nationwide will be holding a hearing in Las Vegas, Nevada, to decide if 70-plus lawsuits against pet food manufacturers, both those seeking class action status and otherwise, should be heard by one court.
Two California law firms filed lawsuits seeking class-action status on behalf of stockholders this week, taking the company to task for allegedly concealing threats to its business and sales growth, such as Facebook platform changes that made it easier for users to find rival games.
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He subsequently was declared the war's first combat death, but the U.S. Navy changed his status to missing in action in 2001 after receiving information that he may have survived.
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Ohio and New York have filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Lafayette, Louisiana, seeking lead plaintiff status in the class action accusing BP of withholding information about alleged safety lapses leading up to the Gulf of Mexico blowout.
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