http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Coughlin Stoia Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132757 A judge has tossed all claims against Constar International Inc., citing its filing for Chapter 11 protection, in a consolidated securities fraud class action alleging the plastic container maker and several financial firms made misleading statements to investors about Constar's 2002 initial public offering. http://www.law360.com/articles/132757 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/132660 A pension fund that sued VeriFone Holdings Inc. for allegedly overstating its income for three 2007 quarters by more than $37 million is opposing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed settlement related to the alleged fraud. http://www.law360.com/articles/132660 http://www.law360.com/articles/132475 Hansen Medical Inc. has been hit with a putative class action alleging the company issued materially false and misleading statements to shareholders regarding its financial results and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles. http://www.law360.com/articles/132475 http://www.law360.com/articles/132326 Wachovia Corp. and the underwriters and auditor of 30 of the company's public offerings have denounced a consolidated class action alleging they downplayed Wachovia’s parlous subprime exposure when selling some $35 billion bond class securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/132326 http://www.law360.com/articles/131984 Two insurance companies seeking to rescind defense coverage to Milberg LLP and several former partners caught up in an alleged kickback scheme have appealed their claims to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit following a district judge's ruling that they waited too long to act. http://www.law360.com/articles/131984 http://www.law360.com/articles/132075 A federal judge has denied a request to dismiss a proposed securities class action accusing mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc. and its leaders of misleading investors about losses in the housing market downturn. http://www.law360.com/articles/132075 http://www.law360.com/articles/131409 A federal appeals court has upheld the certification of a securities class action claiming that Constar International Inc. and several financial firms misled investors about the plastic container manufacturer’s 2002 initial public offering by touting the company as strong and competitive when its business was allegedly deteriorating. http://www.law360.com/articles/131409 http://www.law360.com/articles/131228 Direct mail marketing products company Advo Inc. and some of its directors and officers have reached a $12.5 million settlement in a securities class action alleging that they issued false and misleading information in relation to a new operating system and a merger with Valassis Communications Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131228 http://www.law360.com/articles/131133 Pitney Bowes Inc., the Connecticut-based maker of mail processing equipment, has been hit with a proposed securities class action alleging that the company made false and misleading statements about its financial condition that artificially inflated its stock price. http://www.law360.com/articles/131133 http://www.law360.com/articles/131106 A federal appeals court has reinstated a class action accusing Matrixx Initiatives Inc. of concealing from investors hundreds of consumer reports claiming cold medication Zicam caused users to lose their sense of smell. http://www.law360.com/articles/131106 http://www.law360.com/articles/130862 Down but not yet out, shareholders of optical networking provider Finisar Corp. have appealed a federal judge’s decision to toss a derivative suit accusing the company’s brass of improperly backdating stock option grants. http://www.law360.com/articles/130862 http://www.law360.com/articles/130318 Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, underwriters for the bank’s share offerings and individual defendants have lambasted a consolidated shareholder complaint they say opportunistically alleges fraud in the aftermath of the financial crisis. http://www.law360.com/articles/130318 http://www.law360.com/articles/130591 Farmers Group Inc. has won its bid for an en banc review of an appeals court panel's 2-1 decision to revive a homeowner's putative class action alleging the insurer charged minorities higher premiums than their white counterparts. http://www.law360.com/articles/130591 http://www.law360.com/articles/130622 A federal judge has denied class certification to shareholders accusing Intervoice-Brite Inc. of securities fraud, ruling on remand that the lead plaintiffs failed to show that the company’s alleged misrepresentations about a 1999 merger caused classwide losses. http://www.law360.com/articles/130622 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/130434 Investors alleging The Blackstone Group's withholding of information from them led to steep losses after its more than $4.5 billion public offering in 2007 have filed a notice of appeal of a federal judge’s dismissal of the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/130434 http://www.law360.com/articles/130197 Five Midway Games Inc. executives are off the hook in a suit accusing them of selling off millions of dollars of artificially inflated stock in 2005 to the detriment of a putative class of shareholders. http://www.law360.com/articles/130197 http://www.law360.com/articles/129960 A $336 million settlement a class of consumers reached with credit card companies and banks accused of breaching federal and state antitrust laws by colluding to fix foreign currency fees has been granted approval by a federal judge, three years after the defendants put the money away in escrow to repay the plaintiffs. http://www.law360.com/articles/129960 http://www.law360.com/articles/129787 Plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation alleging that Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G underperforms on AT&T Mobility LLC’s 3G data network have filed a consolidated complaint accusing the technology giant of fraud and negligence, and of violating a number of state consumer protection statutes. http://www.law360.com/articles/129787