Mr. Wyatt, who died on Tuesday at 57, became the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action federal lawsuit protesting conditions in the hospital.
Last year, the National Federation of the Blind reached a settlement of a landmark class-action lawsuit against one company whose site advocates found unusable, Target.
The original plaintiff in the landmark class-action lawsuit seeking to reclassify Uber drivers as employees has spoken out against the settlement and accused the drivers' attorney of obtaining his support for the agreement "under false pretenses, duress, and misinformation".
Dr. Howard A. Engle, a Miami Beach pediatrician and a lifelong smoker who was the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action suit against the tobacco industry, died at home on Wednesday.
But after the settlement of a landmark class-action lawsuit this week, Medicare will soon begin paying more often for physical, occupational and other therapies for large numbers of people with certain disabilities and chronic conditions like Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
Uber could have been forced to pay $852m in damages to California and Massachusetts drivers if it had lost the landmark class-action lawsuit over employment classification that the company settled in April for up to $100m, according to new court documents.
In 2005, Chen gained international recognition for organising a landmark class-action lawsuit against authorities in Linyi, Shandong province, for the excessive enforcement of the one-child policy.
His profile rose further in 2005 when he filed a landmark class-action suit taking on abuses of the one-child policy.
Now, in a landmark class-action federal lawsuit which includes the Staten Island precinct and others across the city 12 minority officers are suing the New York City Police Department over what they say is a rampant quota system.
David Ourlicht is one of the four named plaintiffs in the landmark class-action lawsuit Floyd et al. v. City of New York et al., challenging the constitutionality of the New York Police Department's practice of Stop, Question and Frisk.
