It was a bit old-school – unpretentious, a repository of cycling wisdom, and the venue for some high-class action.
The New Yorker, July 24, 2000 P. 86 THE CURRENT CINEMA reviews of "X-Men" and "Chuck & Buck"... [W]hat, I wonder, will children's fantasies be like now, in the age of "The Matrix" and the new "X-Men," when a character who doesn't fight in midair, walk through solid surfaces, or transform himself from a movie star into a snouted beast and back again hardly qualifies for a high-class action picture?
IMF has funded some of Australia's most high profile class action cases including Aristocrat, Centro, Pan Pharmaceuticals, AWB and the Bank Fees class actions.
The likes of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo may be the names that you read about in terms of massive mortgage fraud or high-profile class action settlements, but there's plenty of garbage being dumped on us by small-time crooks.
These lawsuits have ranged from high-stakes class action lawsuits (the FPX lawsuit) to well-funded challenges by big trademark owners (e.g., the Rosetta Stone ($RST) and American Airlines lawsuits) to poorly funded lawsuits by no-name trademark owners like the case I discuss in this post.
Liability also arises for breaches of a civil duty of care and a couple of high-profile class actions have been launched on behalf of detainees.
This helps to explain why U.S. graduates are increasingly challenging the idea that they should work for free in order to gain a foothold in the global job market — most notoriously through a series of high-profile class actions against companies including Fox Searchlight Pictures, Atlantic Records and Condé Nast.
Leading the way is Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins (www.csgrr.com), the law firm that last month revealed it had squeezed $7.2bn£4.1bnbn) from Enron scoundrels — the highest recovery in a class action lawsuit in the US.
However, the changes described in an FCC press release and more than an hour of statements by FCC commissioners on Thursday generally confirm issues that previously led the Market Research Association to warn of "less accurate research results, higher costs, and more class action lawsuits" against survey call centers.
Nonetheless, Howard Fienberg, director of government affairs for the Market Research Association, warned that Wheeler had provided "enough information" to signal changes "that could seriously harm survey, opinion and marketing research conducted by phone," producing "less accurate research results, higher costs, and more class action lawsuits".
With both politicians and class action lawyers attacking high (and hidden) 401(k) fees, you're more likely to get results than in the past.
