http://www.law360.com/classaction Latest articles for: Class Action Copyright 2012 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:54:40 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312317 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312317 An unhappy Hotels.com LP customer filed a putative class action against the company in Texas court Friday, claiming the online hotel booking tool does not honor its promise to match any published room rate lower than its own. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:40:48 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312312 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312312 A judge erred when he refused to compel arbitration in an overtime suit against Citigroup Inc. and held that an arbitration agreement couldn't waive the right to proceed collectively under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Citigroup told the Second Circuit on Tuesday. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:20:07 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312183 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312183 The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of almost all of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit on behalf female drivers at CRST Van Expedited Inc. but vacated a $4.5 million attorneys' fee award to the trucking company. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:19:06 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312158 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312158 The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court's dismissal of a putative class action alleging State Street Bank & Trust Co. violated federal employment law by allowing General Motors employees to invest in the company's stock even after GM's impending bankruptcy became public knowledge. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:18:32 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312126 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312126 The Screen Actors Guild and the players’ associations of the major professional sports leagues on Friday asked the Third Circuit to reverse a ruling that the First Amendment protects Electronic Arts Inc. in a proposed class action over EA’s use of college athletes’ likenesses in video games. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:44:32 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311966 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311966 The Federal Circuit again denied federal judges a cost-of-living pay raise Friday but held that the judges' class action was not barred by a previous ruling, clearing the way for the suit to possibly return to the U.S. Supreme Court. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:34:21 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311585 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311585 A class of consumers asked a California federal judge Tuesday to sign off on an up to $6.25 million settlement to end a suit accusing Payless ShoeSource Inc. of violating federal law by sending unsolicited text messages. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:35:05 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312129 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/312129 A California federal judge on Wednesday refined Jaco Electronics Inc.'s antitrust claims in multidistrict litigation against a slew of liquid crystal display panel makers, clarifying that Jaco is only allowed to recover damages from entities directly involved in the massive price-fixing conspiracy. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:30:58 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311925 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311925 Hundreds of Virginia plaintiffs are taking a $2 billion swing at regional power company Dominion, which they accused in two lawsuits filed Tuesday of exposing them to toxic fly ash that was used as fill for a golf course built in the middle of their community. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:41:19 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311957 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311957 New York-based brokerage firm David Lerner Associates Inc. was hit with a putative class action Tuesday for allegedly misleading elderly and unsophisticated clients into buying more than $300 million worth of securities from two real estate investment trusts. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:59:49 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311850 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311850 A California federal judge refused Tuesday to revive a claim in a defunct class action accusing Facebook Inc. of improperly sharing consumers' personal information with advertisers, saying the claim's dismissal did not hinge on the nature of the plaintiffs' communications with the company. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:30:41 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311840 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311840 A California federal judge on Tuesday rejected Toyota Motor Corp.’s bid to throw out part of a putative class action alleging the carmaker inflated its stock price by misleading the public about a brake defect. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:58:34 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/310956 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/310956 A lawyer for a potential class of mortgage borrowers urged the Supreme Court in oral arguments Tuesday to find that the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act barred Quicken Loans Inc. and other lenders from collecting unearned fees, even if they weren’t shared with another party. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:34:19 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311421 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311421 The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act requires no stamp of approval from state legislatures before private actions can be brought in state courts. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:25:44 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311604 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311604 Ex-Walgreen Co. workers who allege the company discriminated against Latinos are not only short on facts, but their putative class claims are at odds with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Dukes, the drugstore giant told an Illinois federal court Tuesday. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:51:18 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311489 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311489 A Deepwater Horizon worker aboard the vessel during the April 2010 Macondo well explosion said Monday that she had settled her injury claims against companies targeted in ensuing multidistrict litigation, including BP PLC, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Energy Services Inc. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:02:40 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311529 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311529 New York's highest court on Tuesday ruled that an excess insurance policy Federal Insurance Co. issued to IBM Corp. didn't cover the settlement of class claims over the company's alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:43:15 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311689 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311689 A California federal judge has greenlighted the testimony of two expert economists in multidistrict litigation alleging a major price-fixing conspiracy in the liquid crystal display panel industry, ruling Tuesday the LCD makers failed to establish that the experts' findings should be barred. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:58:43 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311486 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311486 Plaintiffs in one of six lawsuits claiming Proskauer Rose LLP protected accused Ponzi schemer Robert Allen Stanford's bank protested a motion to stay the suit Monday, calling it a ploy to prevent the court from remanding the suit before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation reaches a decision. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:24:25 +0000 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311398 http://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/311398 Panda Express Inc. was hit with a putative class action in California court Thursday claiming the fast-casual restaurant chain doesn't provide seating for its cashiers and workers while they're on duty in violation of the state's labor code.