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...Thousands of lawsuits from municipalities, school districts, tribes, parents and others were consolidated into a class action complaint heard in the federal court for the Northern District of California....
...JPMorgan also faces a lawsuit from the US Virgin Islands, where the disgraced financier had a home. The cases have been consolidated for pre-trial proceedings....
...After all, the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued, since the orders were the customers' property, why should the profit from the sale be given to the broker and the HFTs?...
...“Volkswagen believes that the consolidated securities class action complaint is without merit,” said Pietro Zollino, a VW spokesperson....
...in exchange an “intergalactic” waiver that prevents any other misconduct claims against them from being litigated anywhere else....
...The complaint from Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund, for example, analyses price data from auctions and compares it with the price of similar securities that are already trading....
...Last month the claims were consolidated into one group class action with the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the £40bn UK pension fund, selected as the lead plaintiff....
...New investor lawsuits seeking damages from the company are filed, while a class-action suit is consolidated....
...HSBC, the fixing company and the other participating banks are also facing potential class-action lawsuits that have been consolidated in New York federal court....
...But what interested us more from the Nomura note was the useful overview it provided of the defences that the banks have used thus far in lawsuits that were consolidated into one case earlier this month....
...It’s a bit like paying someone to steal from you. (Insert lawyer joke here.)...
...This week, plaintiffs’ attorneys consolidated the suits into a single complaint and sought class action status in federal court....
...And while E&Y’s alleged failure to follow up on the Lee interview arguably would have been a departure from GAAS, the only subsequent E&Y statement at issue is the report on the interim...
...Some have multiple plaintiffs and relate to injuries, exposure to oil or dispersants, property damage or economic loss from the blast and the ensuing oil spill into the Gulf....
...Overall, complainants from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have filed more than half a million cases between them....
...John Coffee, professor at Columbia Law School, said the selection of New Orleans was a “victory for plaintiffs”....
...While total stock market losses from the technology and telecoms bust ran to the hundreds of billions of dollars, and drew more than 1,000 individual legal complaints, the consolidated class-action case...
...Mr Walsh said the airline was engaged in non-binding mediation with lawyers for the civil plaintiffs in the US over the passenger surcharges. The claims had been consolidated into a single action....
...Tyco’s settlement ends the consolidated class action lawsuit that was being heard in federal court in New Hampshire....
...Air India, which is allowed to carry passengers in the London-New York market, is resisting attempts to draw it into the class-action suits, which are being consolidated into a single action expected to...
...“There has apparently been an offshoot of regional cartels,” said Michael Hausfeld at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll in Washington, lead attorney for plaintiffs in a number of the cargo suits....
...“There has apparently been an offshoot of regional cartels,” said Michael Hausfeld at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll in Washington, the lead attorney for plaintiffs in a number of the cargo suits....
...About 45 per cent of the current tally of 6,400 outstanding lawsuits against Merck have been consolidated in federal court, and about 43 per cent will be in state court in New Jersey, before an Atlantic...
...All lawsuits filed in federal courts from across the US against Merck have been consolidated in a process called multi-district litigation (MDL) to help streamline massive litigation proceedings....
...A consolidated claim filed two months later added nine banks and two law firms to the defendants....
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