It was the first financial institution to resolve class-action claims brought by investors who say they lost billions of dollars in Enron's collapse.
The settlement, preliminarily approved by Judge Kaplan, would resolve class-action claims by more than 100,000 customers that grew out of a four-year Justice Department investigation into price fixing of commissions and other business practices at the auction houses.
It has generally been difficult to resolve class-level relationships among red algae (i.e., Compsopogonophyceae, Porphyridiophyceae, and Stylonematophyceae) and intraclass relationships (i.e., Nemaliophycidae and Rhodymeniophycidae) using multigene data (Saunders and Hommersand 2004; Yoon et al. 2006; Le Gall and Saunders 2007; Verbruggen et al. 2010; Scott et al. 2011).
Resolving class II molar relationships by distalizing maxillary molars may be indicated for patients with minor skeletal discrepancies [1].
On the 2D level, reference-free alignment and classification of all particles results in well resolved class averages, with fine details on both the head and body domains of the 30S subunits (Fig. S1A).
The model aims to enhance existing manual scheduling and timetabling approaches that are often accompanied with arduous combinatorial tasks such as resolving class conflicts, dealing with parking and traffic congestion, and ensuring an efficient utilization of facility and human resources.
Alexander H. Schmidt, a lawyer who represented the original nine plaintiffs in the class-action case, said he hoped the current and former owners would quickly resolve the class members' rent overcharge claims by "settling this case, and ending the litigation".
The House Judiciary Committee's report on the bill said that "state courts typically resolve most class actions" today.
Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google have agreed to a new settlement that would resolve a class action lawsuit by tech workers who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid recruiting each other's employees.
