The federal appeals court had concluded there was enough merit in the claims to proceed to trial on a class-action track.
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Microsoft and Best Buy failed to get a racketeering case against them dismissed Monday, and now face trial in a class-action RICO suit.
PwC is still expected to go to trial in a class action claim for overtime by its California audit associates that could blow the lid off what they say about audit quality versus what they really do.
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Judge Batts makes these points in an 83-page pre-trial opinion for a class-action lawsuit filed by students, workers and residents of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who say they were exposed to hazardous materials and polluted air.
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Plaintiff lawyers say questions about the validity of economic theories or how to distribute damages should be left for trial, while corporate defendants say most cases never get to trial because once a class has been certified they are forced to settle to avoid potentially ruinous damages.
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The trial, which is one of the largest class-action discrimination suits to ever reach trial, is expected to last for five weeks.
The federal class-action trial of a New York City Police Department's Stop-and-Frisk policy wound down today.
Last year a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there was enough evidence of discrimination to warrant a class-action trial.
The high court will not judge the merits of the sweeping claims at this stage, just whether a class-action trial can proceed.
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Companies argue that with the stakes literally in the billions of dollars, they cannot afford to take such a class action to trial and must settle with the attorneys, regardless of the merits of the case.
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Several big employment class actions have gone to trial and this one likely will, too.
As fellow Forbes.com contributor and noted attorney Michael Bobelian has recently pointed out , few class actions ever go to trial.
"We need a large-scale clinical trial that compares the most popular drugs in the class, " says Nissen.
The best the retailer can hope for is another appealable ruling from the trial court, perhaps on whether former employees can join the class.
AstraZeneca's boast was based on the results of a clinical trial called STELLAR, which compared Crestor against other medicines in the class of cholesterol drugs called statins.
One day, his university class has the opportunity to sit in on a war-crimes trial.
He also co-sponsored a bill designed to cut down on malpractice litigation in 2005, and voted for the Class Action Fairness Act, a law that made it harder for trial lawyers to file some of their most lucrative cases.
Lieberman was the primary investigator for a government-funded clinical trial that showed there was little difference in how long patients stuck with the new class of antipsychotics, like Zyprexa and Risperdal, vs. the older, cheaper variety, such as Haldol.
There are a covey of witch museums around town, including the world-class Peabody Essex Museum, which houses 552 original documents on the Salem witch trial.
While playing an important role in maintaining corporate accountability, class actions have lately offered the most egregious examples of the mercenary nature of America's trial lawyers.
Yet when asked about pursuing the trial bar for similar behavior, his office says it has no jurisdiction to go after law firms in class action suits.
If so, the lower court might consider splitting the class action in half, so the question of liability can be determined first, followed by another trial on whether the discrimination was so bad as to merit punitives.
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