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In order to assist California defense attorneys anticipate the types of class action lawsuits against which they will have to defend, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We include only those categories that include 10% or more of the class action filings during the preceding week.
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Following its Original Panel Opinion Reversing Trial Court Denial of Plaintiff’s Class Action Certification Motion, California Court of Appeal Grants Defense Petition for Rehearing in Ticconi v. Blue Shield Class Action The Los Angeles Times reports today that the California Court of Appeal has agreed to reconsider its opinion in Ticconi v. Blue Shield of Cal. Life & Health Ins. Co., 157 Cal.App.4th 707, 68 Cal.Rptr.3d 785 (Cal.App. 2007), which reversed a trial court order denying class action status to a lawsuit against Blue Shield.
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As a resource to class action defense attorneys, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We include only those categories that include 10% or more of the class action filings during the preceding week. In light of the holidays, this report covers the two-week period of December 21, 2007 – January 3, 2008, during which time 57 new class action lawsuits were filed.
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District Court Awards Class Action Counsel Record $464 Million following $3.2 Billion Settlement in Class Action Against Tyco and its Auditors Characterizing the case as “enormously complex,” United States District Court Judge Barbadoro awarded counsel for class action plaintiffs $464 million in legal fees and $29 million in costs arising out of the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Tyco and its auditors. The underlying class action settled for $3.2 billion, so the fee award to class action counsel represented 14.
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The Wall Street Journal reports today that Travelers Cos. Has reached a tentative class action settlement of a shareholder class action, and that the company has separately agreed to “pay $6 million to settle several state investigations over how it paid brokers.” The amount to be paid to settle the class action has not yet been disclosed. The settlement follows a failed attempt by defense attorneys to obtain dismissal of the class action complaint.
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The author of the Class Action Defense Blog wishes all of you a very Happy New Year. A new class action article will be published tomorrow.
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The Associated Press reports today that U.S. District Court Judge Harry Barnes of Arkansas has denied plaintiffs’ class action certification motion, but has permitted the lawsuit to proceed on an individual basis. According to AP, the class action complaint was filed following the 2005 derailment of a Union Pacific train; the derailment caused an explosion that killed a woman. Judge Barnes ruled that the lawsuit failed to satisfy the requirements for a class action, AP reports, but permitted that the four named plaintiffs may proceed to trial on June 2, 2008, on their individual claims.
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As frequent visitors to this site know, each Saturday we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We include only those categories that include 10% or more of the class action filings during the preceding week. However, in light of the limited number of court days this past week and this upcoming week, we have decided to delay today’s class action filing report.
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The author of the Class Action Defense Blog wishes all of you a very happy holiday season. A new class action article will be published tomorrow.
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The Wall Street Journal reports today that U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik of Seattle, Washington, has dismissed a putative class action against lawyer-rating website Avvo. The class action complaint challenged Avvo’s method of rating lawyers, and was filed by two lawyers who objected to the ratings they had received. According to The Wall Street Journal, the district court “ruled that there was no basis for cracking down on a lawyer-rating Web site merely because some of its rates didn’t like how they were portrayed.
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