Congress's move to shift class-action cases from state courts to federal ones will probably mean hundreds more cases.
Prosecutors say that in more than 150 of the firm's class-action cases from the 1970s to 2005, the law firm earned more than $216 million in lawyers' fees, paying $11 million to these on-call plaintiffs.
Jared the Galleria of Jewelers and Kay Jewelers' parent company, Sterling Jewelers, is facing a class-action arbitration case from thousands of former and current employees, 250 of whom allege the company "fostered rampant sexual harassment and discrimination," The Washington Post reported Monday.
It also differs from other "state action" cases in which the challenged conduct consists of enforcement of state laws or regulations by state officials who are themselves parties in the lawsuit; in such cases, the question typically is whether the private motives which triggered the enforcement of those laws can fairly be attributed to the State.
brought a class-action case against officers from Border Patrol and ICE in Southern California, alleging the widespread use of coercion, threats, and deception to get immigrants to sign their own expulsion orders, including a form called the I-826.
From the civil rights movement through to affirmative action cases in the 1990s.
In 2006, when it helped distribute payments from a class-action case involving title insurance costs, some consumers complained that the checks bounced.
In the recent University of Michigan affirmative-action case, the Supreme Court received amici briefs from a variety of groups, including military officers, saying that affirmative action was necessary to make their institutions work because without it their leadership would not enjoy legitimacy.
Using the findings of liability from the class-action case, about 8,000 litigants filed lawsuits under the Engle progeny umbrella — and according to Douglas, nearly 70percentt of the Engle cases that have been decided have been decided in favor of the plaintiffs.
