Ceridian

1. Ceridian Seeks Sanctions In Trucker Fleet Card Suit

Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009

Ceridian Corp. has asked a judge to sanction a group of truck stop owners that filed a putative class action against it over an alleged anti-competitive scheme in which Ceridian unit Comdata Corp. supposedly charged independent outfits like the plaintiffs inflated fees to process Trucker Fleet Card transactions.

2. Truck Stops Seek Cert. In Fleet Card Antitrust Suit

Monday, Jul 20, 2009

The lead plaintiffs have filed a motion for class certification in a suit accusing credit card company Comdata Corp. of monopolizing the market for trucker fleet payment cards, which provide special benefits to trucking companies.

3. Talks Ordered In Trucker Fleet Cards Feud

Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009

A federal judge has sent the parties to the table for settlement talks in a lawsuit by a group of independent truck stop owners who claim Ceridian Corp. and several major multistate truck stop chains conspired to monopolize the market for credit cards for truckers that provide special benefits to trucking companies.

4. 2 Years After Tellabs: 'Core Operations' Pleading

Friday, Jun 05, 2009

As the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Tellabs Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights Ltd. approaches, a critical mass of circuit court decisions has begun to suggest some trends in how Tellabs has affected plaintiffs’ reliance on pleading scienter based on “core operations,” say Karen Pieslak Pohlmann and A. Lauren Carpenter of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

5. 8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Ceridian Shareholder Suit

Friday, Sep 12, 2008

An appeals court on Thursday affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a consolidated shareholder suit against Ceridian Corp., holding that the plaintiffs failed to show that the payroll processing company and its officers acted recklessly or with intent to defraud.

6. Equifax Subsidiary Settles FTC's Antitrust Charges

Monday, Apr 28, 2008

TALX Corp. has reached a deal with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the agency's concerns that TALX's acquisition spree in the first half of the decade “substantially lessened competition” in two outsourced data management services markets.

7. Comdata Hit With Suit Over Trucker Fleet Cards

Thursday, Jun 21, 2007

Comdata Network Inc. is engaging in anti-competitive behavior in order to secure a monopoly in the U.S. market for trucker fleet cards, according to a putative class action brought by a small gas station chain.

8. Court Tosses Ceridian Shareholder Suit

Thursday, Jun 07, 2007

A district court has thrown out a securities lawsuit against human resources firm Ceridian Corp., dismissing it as a “sprawling jumble” of an action that mistakes incompetence for fraud.

9. Truck Stop Unloads Antitrust Suit On Comdata

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2007

The owner of an independent truck stop is taking aim at credit card company Comdata Corp. and its parent Ceridian Corp. for allegedly monopolizing trucker fleet cars, consumer credit cards for truckers that provide special benefits to trucking companies.

10. Gift Card Patent Deemed Invalid, Unenforceable

Monday, Nov 06, 2006

A four year patent infringement lawsuit over gift card technology seeking over $10 million in damages turned into a worst case scenario for the plaintiff, who not only lost on the two counts it was arguing, but had its entire patent deemed invalid in a jury verdict handed down on Friday.