In addition, an intern paid a stipend filed a class action suit against his employer.
In 1992, victims won a class action suit against the Marcos estate in Hawaii.
Carnival's contract prohibits a class action suit, but Hickey said he's not sure whether it is legally enforceable.
Harwood Feffer, a New York based law firm, filed a class action suit in federal court in New York.
Last September Groupon employees filed a class action suit against the company alleging they were owed money for unpaid overtime and bonuses.
The lawsuit was filed first in 1993 in the form of a class action suit in a New York Federal court .
In 2007 Morgan Stanley agreed to settle claims in a class action suit alleging discrimination against thousands of female employees in compensation and promotion.
And its new 5.0 software, dubbed the "Upgrade of Death, " is the subject of a class action suit alleging that it interferes with rival ISPsoftware loaded onto a PC.
The suit was originally filed against the company in 1993 in a New York court as a class action suit, primarily on behalf of the private citizens affected by the pollution.
In the US a retired woman sued banks in a class action suit claiming unjust enrichment under the tenets that it made payments far more expensive than they should have been.
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It's a class action suit filed on behalf of a bunch of doctors, nurses, counselors, sex educators who say that this law now implicates everytime a teenager comes to them seeking birth control.
One of the lawyers bringing a class action suit against Google alleges that the company filed a patent for using the sort of payload data it collected, proving that this was no accident.
Sirius XM Radio is facing a class action suit filed by a nationwide group of the company subscribers that alleges antitrust law infringement because the company has abused its monopoly position and increased its fees by 30%.
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In the second decision, a federal judge in New York chucked out a class-action suit after discovering that the plaintiff, a labor-union pension fund, never owned the shares it claimed it lost money on.
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In a 1998 class action suit, the city was sued for the same billing errors.
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Holders of its American Depository Receipts have filed a class-action suit in America.
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But filing a class-action suit was one way of avoiding the self-regulatory route.
Odom is one of two lead plaintiffs in a class-action suit involving thousands of consumers with similar claims, said Girard.
They are hoping to get retribution by a proposed class action suit filed in San Francisco court on Monday.
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Rosenthal -- whose Miami-based firm represents 137 other players and their families who've filed a class-action suit against the league -- said Turner has likely suffered from undiagnosed concussions.
On April 15, four Second Life property owners filed a class-action suit against Linden Lab, the online world's creator, alleging the company misled players into thinking they owned their virtual lands.
But in the course of one week in October, Uber was sued by taxi and limousine companies, and Chicago regulators sent citations and filed a class-action suit on behalf of passengers.
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The two other stop-and-frisk-related cases in front of Judge Scheindlin are a lawsuit over trespassing in public housing projects and a class-action suit challenging the constitutionality of the broader stop-and-frisk practice, which is slated to go to trial in March.
According to Stephen Rosenfeld, a lawyer with the Prescription Access Litigation Project, which has launched a class-action suit against AstraZeneca and Barr Laboratories over Tamoxifen, an anti-cancer drug, delays to generic drugs mean that 42m Americans who lack health insurance pay a high price, and may not get essential medicines at all.
We expect one or more lawsuits to be filed over this matter, with a class-action suit likely, though (and be sure to note this is not legal advice) most owners would be better served accepting the proposed gift-card settlement than becoming involved in a long-term suit that might ultimately prove to be of little value.
It's not clear whether they have any actual shareholders on board yet (or at least any willing to serve as lead plaintiff), but a law firm in New York has filed a class action shareholders suit against Sierra alleging that the company's introduction of the Voq was so bungled and incompetent that they violated their responsibilities to shareholders.
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Those that have staked out an extreme position on this issue have run into trouble: The Huffington Post has had to endure a boycott and a class-action suit over its refusal to pay any of its bloggers, while Demand Media is trying to rid itself of paid writers whose low-quality output earned it a spanking from Google.
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Microsoft and Best Buy failed to get a racketeering case against them dismissed Monday, and now face trial in a class-action RICO suit.
Wal-Mart was favored by a Supreme Court decision to reject a massive class action law suit against the retail giant for sexual discrimination.
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And yesterday authors objecting to Google stealing and copying their books without their permission filed a class action copyright infringement suit against Google.
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