http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Hagens Berman Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132806 Citing critical differences among the plaintiff blocs, a group of pension funds has urged a federal judge to reconsider a recent decision to consolidate actions accusing KeyCorp.’s investment management unit of channeling $186 million into Madoff feeder funds. http://www.law360.com/articles/132806 http://www.law360.com/articles/130769 Two former of counsel at Hagens Berman Sobol & Shapiro LLP accused of violating a $360,000 employment contract and refusing to divulge the identities of potential clients after the firm hired them to expand its practice are appealing a Washington district court's denial of their attempt to transfer the suit to Pennsylvania. http://www.law360.com/articles/130769 http://www.law360.com/articles/130404 A federal judge has tapped Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP to serve as co-lead counsel in multidistrict litigation accusing KeyCorp’s investment management subsidiary of blindly sluicing millions of dollars into the Madoff Ponzi scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/130404 http://www.law360.com/articles/130452 A judge has given leave in part to a group of Charles Schwab Corp. investors to amend a class action complaint accusing the bank and several affiliates of committing securities violations by misrepresenting the risk profile of Schwab’s YieldPlus Fund and by improperly changing the fund’s investment policies. http://www.law360.com/articles/130452 http://www.law360.com/articles/129758 Postal workers have said they will appeal the dismissal of their claims against their employer, the U.S. Postal Service, which they had accused of unjust enrichment and privacy violations for allegedly selling personal information from their employee files to private marketers for profit. http://www.law360.com/articles/129758 http://www.law360.com/articles/129313 Members of the committees that oversaw Washington Mutual Inc.'s employee savings plan are challenging a judge's order denying their bid to toss a class action claim that they mismanaged the plan's assets by investing in the failed financial giant's own stock. http://www.law360.com/articles/129313 http://www.law360.com/articles/129021 The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly begun an investigation into whether Toys R Us strong-armed suppliers into stifling discounts by rivals, prompted by evidence in two pending civil antitrust cases against the toy retailer. http://www.law360.com/articles/129021 http://www.law360.com/articles/128820 A federal judge has dismissed a public nuisance lawsuit brought by the tiny Alaskan village of Kivalina against 24 energy and utility giants, breaking from a federal appeals court's take on whether companies can be held liable for historic greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. http://www.law360.com/articles/128820 http://www.law360.com/articles/128563 Charles Schwab Corp. is facing a possible enforcement action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over two mutual funds that invested heavily in mortgage-backed securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/128563 http://www.law360.com/articles/127959 A group of homeowners in Washington state is seeking class certification in a consolidated truth-in-lending suit accusing Countrywide Financial Corp. of misleading borrowers about the terms of their mortgage loans. http://www.law360.com/articles/127959 http://www.law360.com/articles/127486 Interstate Fire and Casualty Co. has asked a judge to dismiss a suit it filed over its duty to defend Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP in litigation related to the firm's wrangle with clients and co-counsel over the right strategy for false advertising suits against Nestle Waters North America Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/127486 http://www.law360.com/articles/126780 In a dispute over whether the agreement was unfair, a federal appeals court is considering whether to reject a $24 million settlement in a suit brought by consumers against AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP over alleged gross inflating of prices for prostate cancer drug Zoladex. http://www.law360.com/articles/126780 http://www.law360.com/articles/126696 The federal judge overseeing a consolidated putative class action brought by participants of Washington Mutual Inc.'s savings plan has dismissed JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a defendant, saying its acquisition of the failed financial giant's banking unit did not include the transfer of fiduciary liability. http://www.law360.com/articles/126696 http://www.law360.com/articles/125218 Eli Lilly & Co. is set to fork over $25.1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Connecticut Attorney General's Office for allegedly marketing its antipsychotic Zyprexa for unapproved uses and concealing the drug's serious side effects for more than a decade. http://www.law360.com/articles/125218 http://www.law360.com/articles/124975 A federal appeals court has vacated the dismissal of a class of nationwide consumers’ claims that Johnson & Johnson and its units inflated the average wholesale prices of certain drugs and offered secret discounts and rebates to physicians. http://www.law360.com/articles/124975 http://www.law360.com/articles/124967 Direct purchaser plaintiffs in an antitrust class action alleging Biovail Corp. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC conspired to stifle the market for a generic version of antidepressant Wellbutrin XL have asked defendants to turn over market projections depicting how the generic would affect sales and prices for the branded bupropion. http://www.law360.com/articles/124967 http://www.law360.com/articles/124468 A Canadian stock promoter investors accused of helping fraudulently boost fledgling biotechnology company CellCyte Genetics Corp.’s stock price has been dropped from a lawsuit over the alleged pump and dump scheme, as a federal judge has found the plaintiffs had failed to attribute any false or misleading statements to him. http://www.law360.com/articles/124468 http://www.law360.com/articles/124202 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP has lost an appeal of a $12.9 million decision in litigation over average wholesale drug prices and earned a fresh rebuke from the appeals court for its “unfair and deceptive” pricing policies. http://www.law360.com/articles/124202 http://www.law360.com/articles/124172 Less than a week after asking a court to dismiss Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. from a suit, the state of Arizona has revealed that the parties have reached a $900,000 settlement that will put to rest allegations that the pharmaceutical giant schemed to artificially boost average wholesale drug prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/124172 http://www.law360.com/articles/123950 Shareholders of BigBand Networks Inc. have secured final court approval of an $11 million cash settlement resolving their securities class action against the cable equipment provider. http://www.law360.com/articles/123950