Campbell was an All-American swimmer in high school, national class in karate and was named the world's greatest high school athlete in 1952.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 22 (AP) — Thousands of federal lawsuits claiming death or injury from the drug Vioxx cannot be pooled into one national class action, a judge ruled Wednesday.
An employee at the Costco Wholesale Corporation filed a national class-action lawsuit against the company yesterday, accusing it of discriminating against women in promotions to store manager.
Attempts to launch national class-action lawsuits on behalf of smokers have failed, partly because the courts have decided that American smokers are too different to be grouped together.
Mr. Siping is an actor with some 40 years of experience: "entitled as national class B actor," his program biography informs ominously, suggesting the weird rigidities of even the arts in China.
He wants to cap non-economic damages at $250,000; shift national class-action lawsuits from state to federal courts to stop plaintiffs shopping among the states for the highest pay-outs; and reform the rules for asbestos compensation.
[World Business, Section W.] Costco Is Accused of Sex Bias A Costco worker filed a national class-action lawsuit against the company, accusing it of discriminating against women in promotions to the position of store manager.
But the lawyers chosen to represent the plaintiffs in the national class-action case said yesterday that the settlement covered any person who had taken the drug for more than 60 days.
He is leading a team filing national class-action lawsuits in federal courts attacking H.M.O.'s, which he contends coerced doctors to withhold medically necessary treatments promised to patients.
Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out their national class-action lawsuit, lawyers representing women who claimed that Wal-Mart Stores had discriminated against them filed a new lawsuit on Thursday that narrowed their claims to the California stores of the retail chain.
