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1. OxyContin Buyers Resolve Purdue Antitrust Claims

Monday, Mar 08, 2010

Six plaintiffs seeking to certify indirect purchaser classes in multidistrict litigation accusing Purdue Pharma LP of excluding generic competition for the painkiller OxyContin by engaging in sham patent infringement litigation have resolved their claims with the drugmaker.

2. BDO Worker OT Action Stayed On Appeal To 9th Circ.

Thursday, Sep 17, 2009

A BDO Seidman LLP employee's putative class action alleging the accounting firm wrongfully exempted its unlicensed associate accountants from overtime pay and other benefits has been put on hold, pending a circuit court appeal of the denial of class certification in the case.

3. Overstock.com Class Action Sent To Arbitration

Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009

A terms and conditions notice at the bottom of a Web site is enough to lock an Overstock.com Inc. cell phone-insurance buyer into a contract that compels arbitration and scuttles his proposed class action, a federal court has said.

4. Class Cert. Sought In Grant Thornton Overtime Suit

Thursday, May 21, 2009

An audit associate for Grant Thornton LLP has asked a court to certify a class of employees in a wage-and-hour action alleging the accounting giant misclassifies its unlicensed associates as exempt from overtime pay under state labor laws.

5. Court OKs Deal Valued At $61M Over Faulty GM Parts

Friday, Apr 17, 2009

A federal judge has granted final approval to a settlement conservatively valued at $61 million that resolves litigation over allegedly defective transmission systems in certain Saturn VUE or ION models made by General Motors Corp. between 2002 and 2005.

6. PacBell, Call Center Workers' $1.5M Deal OK'd

Monday, Mar 30, 2009

A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $1.5 million settlement between Pacific Bell Telephone Co. and call center workers who alleged the company did not compensated them for overtime work.

7. PwC Associates Are Nonexempt: Class Action Judge

Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009

A class of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s unlicensed associates in California made some headway in its wage-and-hour action after a federal judge rejected the accounting firm’s arguments that the employees should be considered exempt.

8. Union Launches 'Overworked' PwC Litigation Site

Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008

Labor union Unite Here has set up a Web site detailing a pending, class-certified wage-and-hour lawsuit against PricewaterhouseCoopers.

9. Institute Fights Subpoena For Auto Transmission Info

Monday, Apr 14, 2008

A Texas research institute that performed work for General Motors Corp. has said it needs more time to produce documents related to allegedly faulty transmissions at the center of a purported class action against GM.

10. BDO Seidman Hit With Overtime Class Action

Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007

Accounting firm BDO Seidman LLP is fighting a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company of improperly classifying its unlicensed associate accountants as exempt from receiving overtime pay and other benefits.

11. GM Hit With Class Action Over Saturn Transmissions

Thursday, Oct 11, 2007

Owners of Saturn's Vue and Ion vehicles have filed a putative class action lawsuit against General Motors Corp. alleging that the “Vti” transmission GM introduced in 2002 came with an inherent design flaw that made it prone to breaking down prematurely, rendering the vehicles “virtually worthless.”

12. Alza Challenges Antitrust Claims In Ditropan Case

Friday, Jun 22, 2007

Alza Corp. has shot back at allegations raised by a purported class of indirect purchasers who claim that the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary violated federal and California antitrust laws by trying to keep generic versions of its bladder treatment Ditropan XL off the U.S. market.

13. UPS Settles California Overtime Suit

Tuesday, Nov 07, 2006

United Parcel Service Inc. has agreed in principle to settle an ongoing class action lawsuit brought by its package delivery drivers and has offered a settlement of $87 million, according to a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.