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Class Action Certification Motion Granted by Federal Court in California Class Action Attacking Target’s Failure to Permit “Screen-Reading” Software to Work on its Website Molly Selvin of the Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has granted plaintiffs’ class action certification motion in a California class action against Target challenging the accessibility of the company’s website to the blind. According to Ms. Selvin, the class action complaint alleges that Target’s website violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as well as California state law because “screen-reading software doesn’t work on parts of its website, essentially making it unusable to blind people.
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Molly Selvin of the Los Angeles Times reports today that a California federal district court has granted class action status to a lawsuit against Target seeking website accessibility for the blind. The class action complaint alleges that Target has failed to upgrade its website by implementing “technologically simple and not economically prohibitive” code that would allow screen-reading software to vocalize content on the Target website. In certifying the class action, the federal court reportedly noted that this is “an age when commerce is increasingly conducted on and through the Internet.
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Following $78.5 Million Jury Verdict in Labor Law Class Action, Pennsylvania Court Awards an Additional $62.3 Million for Wal-Mart’s Withholding of Employee Pay for More than 30 Days The Associated Press reports that a Pennsylvania court yesterday awarded an additional $62.3 million against Wal-Mart in a labor law class action. The class action resulted in a jury verdict of $78.5 million, but an additional 125,000 members of the class qualified for additional damages because Wal-Mart withheld their pay for more than 30 days.
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Michigan State Court Concludes that Residents Living Near Landfill Satisfied Requirements for Certification of Class Action Against Landfill Owners The Class Action Defense Blog has learned that a Michigan court certified a class action lawsuit brought by residents of Monroe and Wayne counties against Carleton Farms because it “consistently releases noxious odors and interferes with their [quiet] use and enjoy[ment] [of] their properties.” While the landfill has been in use for years, residents claim that the odor problem was exacerbated by the decision of Carleton Farms to accept municipal sewage sludge from Toronto.
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In order to assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the cases against which they will have to defend in California, 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 relevant timeframe.
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As a resource for California 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 relevant timeframe. This report covers the time period from September 14 – September 20, 2007, during which time 48 new class action lawsuits were filed in these California state and federal courts.
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Molly Selvin of the Los Angeles Times reports today that class action plaintiff lawyer Melvin Weiss has been indicted “on charges that he participated in a kickback scheme that allegedly netted millions of dollars in illicit legal fees.” The federal indictment comes on the heels of a guilty plea by class action plaintiff lawyer William Lerach, who was once a partner at Milberg Weiss, to charges of criminal conspiracy. The recent indictment added to the criminal charges filed against the law firm of Milberg Weiss and two of its named partners, Steve Schulman and David Bershad, last year.
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Nathan Koppel of the Wall Street Journal reports today on the long-anticipated criminal charges leveled against well known class action plaintiff lawyer Melvyn Weiss. The criminal charges are contained in an amendment to the federal indictment handed down last year against the plaintiff class action law firm of Milberg Weiss and two of its named partners, Steven Schulman and David Bershad. The criminal charges against Weiss comes just days after former Milberg Weiss attorney William Lerach, himself a well-known class action plaintiff lawyer, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges, and to the guilty plea of Steve Schulman to federal racketeering and conspiracy charges.
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Nathan Koppel of the Wall Street Journal reports today on the guilty plea by leading class action plaintiff lawyer William Lerach to criminal conspiracy charges arising out of illegal kickbacks to plaintiffs in class action shareholder lawsuits. The plea arises from the criminal indictment filed last year against the well known plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss and two of its named partners, Steven Schulman and David Bershad. The guilty plea was announced just days after Lerach resigned from his law firm to reportedly focus on his defense against the as-then uncharged allegations of criminal wrongdoing.
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Heather Won Tesoriero of the Wall Street Journal reports today that the State of New York and New York City have filed a lawsuit against Merck seeking tens of millions of dollars for payments made from 1999 through 2004 on Vioxx through Medicaid and a prescription-drug assistance program for the elderly. According to the lawsuit, “Merck tried to distort each negative disclosure about Vioxx. Merck cherry-picked outcomes from its own research, omitting material information that would have communicated Vioxx’s real cardiovascular dangers.
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