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Class Action Lawsuit

The Corporations Have Won: Comcast, SCOTUS and the End of Class Actions

Jonathan Valania | Posted 05.17.2013 | Business
Jonathan Valania

A study recently found that the Roberts Court is the most business-friendly of any court in at least the last 65 years. More alarmingly, the top two justices most likely to vote in favor of big business -- out of all justices since 1946 -- are Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Budweiser Maker Accused Of Watering Down Beer

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 04.28.2013 | Business

PHILADELPHIA — Beer lovers across the U.S. have accused Anheuser-Busch of watering down its Budweiser, Michelob and other brands, in class-action su...

How I'm Getting Facebook to Pay Nearly $20M to Protect the Internet from Facebook

Rose Marie Berger | Posted 04.06.2013 | Impact
Rose Marie Berger

To get $20 million donated to the Internet's good guys, we need lots and lots of people to fill out their claim forms.

Get Your $10 From Facebook In 9 Simple Steps

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 01.29.2013 | Technology

If you're lucky (or unlucky, depending on your perspective), you recently received an email notifying you that your photo had been used in a "Sponsore...

California Pizza Kitchen Is 'Deliberately Poisoning' Consumers, Lawsuit Claims

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 01.29.2013 | Business

California Pizza Kitchen and Nestle are killing us one frozen pizza at a time, according to one woman. Katie Simpson is suing California Pizza Kitc...

The Master of Mass Tort Administration

Don McNay | Posted 03.29.2013 | Business
Don McNay

Even if you don't know what a mass tort administrator or a class action administrator does, odds are that you have interacted with one at one time.

Dillard's Settles Charges It Made Sick Workers Illegally Reveal Conditions

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 02.17.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON — Department store chain Dillard's Inc. is paying $2 million to settle charges that it illegally required workers who took sick leave...

Airline Owes Customers 5.8 Million Beers!

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.14.2012 | Home

Southwest Airlines has settled a lawsuit to the tune of an estimated $29 million -- or 5.8 million unredeemed alcoholic beverages valued at $5 each, ...

Starbucks Workers Win $14 Million

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 11.13.2012 | Home

Starbucks workers in Massachusetts just got the tip of a lifetime. Late last week, a federal appeals court in Boston awarded a group of baristas at...

Shutting Down the School to Prison Pipeline

Tamar Birckhead | Posted 12.25.2012 | Crime
Tamar Birckhead

If you sit in juvenile delinquency court long enough, you notice a few things. Most of the kids are black or brown. Almost all of the families are poor. And a huge percentage of the children have problems in school - learning difficulties, mental health needs, behavioral issues, or all three.

Christina Wilkie

Latest Troubles: Walmart Hit With Wage Suit From Temp Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.22.2012 | Business

Walmart and two staffing agencies in the Chicago area were named as defendants in a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Illinois. The suit alleges th...

Retailers Try To Block Swipe Fee Settlement

AP | Posted 10.12.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- A group of retailers and trade groups has launched a last-ditch effort to stop a proposed multibillion-dollar settlement that Visa Inc., M...

Lawsuit Alleges Georgia School Districts Used Taxpayer Money To Defeat Charter School Amendment

Posted 10.10.2012 | Home

A class action lawsuit filed with the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday alleges that the Fulton and Gwinnett County School Districts in Georgia u...

Christina Wilkie

Supreme Court Will Define What A 'Supervisor' Is

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.03.2012 | Business

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, in the term that began Monday, will rule on at least two disputes that could have a major impact on how employees fig...

Judge Rules For Applebee's Servers Who Didn't Get Paid To Clean Toilets

Posted 08.31.2012 | Small Business

A federal judge in Illinois ruled this week that servers and bartenders at a chain of Applebee's restaurants in the state must be compensated for extr...

Barefoot Running Shoe Sparks Lawsuit

Reuters | Posted 08.18.2012 | Business

By Jessica Dye NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - A New York man has sued a unit of Adidas AG, claiming he was duped about the potential f...

Dukes v. Wal-Mart One Year Later: Where Do Women Stand?

Martha Burk | Posted 08.17.2012 | Business
Martha Burk

In the year since, the ruling has been touted as a godsend for corporations. It has been cited numerous times by judges as a reason to throw out class actions in such disparate areas as toxics in a neighborhood, overtime pay cases, and insurance overcharges.

Alice Hines

2,000 Women Claim Walmart Sex Discrimination

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 06.07.2012 | Business

Almost 2,000 women in 48 states claim that Walmart discriminated against them for pay and promotions. May 25 was the deadline for women in most sta...

Why I Am Leaving... the Practice of Being a Plaintiff's Class Action Lawyer*

Lawrence W. Schonbrun | Posted 07.24.2012 | Home
Lawrence W. Schonbrun

I can no longer look judges in the eye and tell them I am entitled to millions in fees for so-called class member "benefits" which I believe actually harms the interests of class members, consumers, and society in general.

Going After A Dead Man's Debt And Other Debt Collector Horror Stories

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.24.2012 | Business

One Michigan-based debt collector has allegedly been trying to collect debts from people who don't owe them, including one man who has been dead for y...

Revenge Of The Geeks

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.10.2012 | Business

If some workers get their way we may witness the real life version of Revenge of the Nerds -- or in this case, geeks. Geek Squad workers have file...

Bank Accused Of Profiting Off Customer Math Errors

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.09.2012 | Business

Amidst debate over how much banks value clients, one among them stands accused of purposefully profiting off the math errors of its own customers. ...

Ex-Taco Bell Manager Alleges Chain Forced Employees To Work Unpaid Overtime

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.03.2012 | Business

Taco Bell loves it when you eat round the clock. But they don't seem to want to pay their workers for every one of the hours they spend feeding you. ...

An Anniversary You Are Forced to Remember

Negah Mouzoon | Posted 06.27.2012 | Politics
Negah Mouzoon

Until federal policymakers act to protect consumers from one-sided contracts, April 27 will always mark the anniversary of a devastating day for consumers' rights.

Nutella To Pay Out Millions In Class-Action Suit Over Health Claims

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 04.27.2012 | Home

Well, it turns out that eating everything slathered in nutella isn't the healthiest thing for you. The manufacturers of the chocolate-hazelnut spr...