Peters took her case to small claims after opting out of a class action settlement.
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In March, a judge approved a class-action settlement for people who owned or leased a 2003-2009 Civic Hybrid.
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Quigless, who last month approved a class-action settlement against A.G.
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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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Just last week we read at the Point of Law blog and elsewhere about a Third Circuit ruling which rejected an absurd cy presdistribution in an antitrust class action settlement.
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It looks like those that bought a Seagate hard drive in the past few years could possibly be in store for a few freebies or a bit of cash, at least if a proposed class action settlement goes ahead.
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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.
The Brunei Investment Agency took over the business in an out-of-court settlement of a legal action against the prince for alleged misuse of funds.
In May Merrill Lynch agreed to replace its mandatory policy with a voluntary one as part of a settlement of a class action sex discrimination suit.
On both occasions he rejected a compromise settlement of his legal action under which each side would have paid its own costs and made a bland statement in open court.
That angered lawyer David Jaroslawicz, who had his own case pending and persuaded a New York appeals court to throw out the settlement and move the action to his home court in Manhattan.
Thursday's court action focused on a settlement reached late last year between the Malkins and a group of investors who filed a class-action lawsuit against the plan.
Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Google and the plaintiffs agreed to a settlement of all the class action suits.
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In August 2009 it entered into a partial settlement in the federal derivative action that did not include Samueli, Ruehle and Nicholas.
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He also posted a letter on the ZeekRewards receivership website, saying the investors, or net winners, had until May 31 to contact his office to negotiate a settlement or face possible legal action.
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Respondent Oppenheimer filed a Third-Party Statement of Claim, which alleged among other causes of action, breach of settlement agreement, fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation, and unjust enrichment.
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One part of the risk calculus must be: will settlement inspire more resource-diverting class action lawsuits?
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This is a settlement of a data security breach class action lawsuit with 130M class members.
The settlement ends the threat of High Court action between West Ham and Tevez's representative Kia Joorabchian.
This settlement is yet another example of how class action lawsuits can be a one-sided sham.
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This week's settlement effectively signals an end to years of court action and further threatened action.
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He said the union would not be rushing in to strike action, but would seek a negotiated settlement.
And he publicly threatened criminal action to force Merrill into a civil settlement--despite state ethics rules that forbid this kind of leverage.
It also rebuked lawyers who argued the court had no right to go poking around in a settlement freely negotiated by AOL and the class-action bar.
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The saga illustrates the conflicts inherent in any class action, where lawyers can negotiate a settlement that is good for them, good for the defendants, but not necessarily good for the clients.
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The court said it overturned the settlement because it violated the fundamental principle behind a class action.
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In the main action, covered by this week's settlement, charges were levelled, and the cases and penalties settled, without anyone admitting or denying anything, and without anything being proved.
Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness has won another challenge to a settlement that would have benefited lawyers at the expense of their purported clients, investors.
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Instead, they created the illusion of action by spreading the many components of the settlement among various committees--much as kids spread lima beans around their plates to create the illusion of eating them.
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