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To assist defense attorneys in California predict the type of cases against which they may 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 relevant timeframe.
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The American Conference Institute is sponsoring a two-day seminar on “Defending Fraud Claims in Consumer Class Actions.” The conference will be held in New York on October 15 and 16, 2007. The details of the conference, its location and its topics may be found here. More information about the American Conference Institute may be found at its website: www.americanconference.com.
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FedEx reports that on August 14, 2007, Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave final approval to a class action settlement in Satchell v. FedEx Express, a class action that alleged racial discrimination by the company. In part, the terms of the class action settlement require FedEx discontinue its use of a Basic Skills Test (BST), which the company believed necessary to “ensure that customer-facing employees possess the basic skills required for successful job performance”; the class action alleged that the BST acted as a barrier to minority advancement in the company.
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As a resource to California 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 relevant timeframe. This report covers the time period from August 3 – August 9, 2007.
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In a case of “boy bites dog,” plaintiff class-action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman was named August 2, 2007, as a defendant in a class action complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by six individuals who were class members in class action lawsuits where Milberg Weiss served as lead class counsel. The putative class action also names the well known plaintiff class action law firm of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins as a defendant.
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In order to assist California class action defense attorneys anticipate the new class action claims 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 relevant timeframe.
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As a resource to California 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 relevant timeframe. This report covers the time period from July 20 – July 26, 2007, during which time 41 new class action cases were initiated in these California state and federal courts.
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The American Conference Institute is sponsoring a two-day seminar on positioning the class action case for early success. The conference will be held in Phoenix on September 26 and 27, 2007. The details of the conference, its location and its topics may be found here. More information about the American Conference Institute may be found at its website: www.americanconference.com.
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To aid class action defense attorneys anticipate the claims 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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Enforcement of Class Action Waiver in Cingular’s Mandatory Arbitration Clause Reversed by Washington Supreme Court and Class Action Reinstated because Class Action Waiver was Unconscionable under the Circumstances A Seattle newspaper reports that the Washington Supreme Court has held that Cingular Wireless cannot enforce a class action waiver as part of an apparently mandatory arbitration clause. As prior articles reveal, class action waivers are frequently part of company-drafted mandatory arbitration provisions.
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