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Class Action Lawsuits: Plaintiffs
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Class action cases are made up of multiple plaintiffs who all have been harmed by the same product, company, investment, or other source. If you are the only injured/damaged party, you may be the victim of a personal injury tort and should submit your case through
Unlike class-action lawsuits that take years of legal wrangling, the group suit seeks direct relief for all 35 plaintiffs that can be obtained within a year. In the forthcoming months, the consumer advocacy group will be filing other group suits to force hospitals to provide charity care to those that qualify and offer reasonable pricing and payment terms to other uninsured patients.
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Last summer, plaintiffs were given the green light to proceed with a consolidated class-action lawsuit in federal court in New Hampshire, where Tyco was formerly headquartered. Tyco ... agreed to let the shareholders continue to puruse claims against Tyco’s former auditor PwC, and said shareholders will also receive 50% of anything the company recovers from Tyco’s imprisoned former executives, Dennis Kozlowski (pictured) and Mark Swartz.
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Class actions are designed to promote efficiency and fairness in handling large numbers of similar claims, ensuring that similar claims are decided uniformly, without sacrificing procedural fairness. Oftentimes, by combining numerous claims in a single class action suit, plaintiffs with relatively small claims can nonetheless vigorously assert their rights.
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A settlement has been approved in the class action lawsuit filed against Accelr8 Technology on behalf of investors who purchased shares of the company's common stock between October 1997 and March 1999. Under the terms of settlement, the company will pay $450,000 and issue 375,000 common shares to a settlement fund for plaintiffs.
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Plaintiffs brought a class action against an arts and culinary school in New York and across the nation, on behalf of similarly situated admissions officers under 29 U.S.C. ยงยง 216(b), the Fair Labor Standards Act (the "FLSA"), and the New York State Labor Law, for denial of statutory time and a half payment for their services over 40 hours per week.
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