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Judicial Panel Grants Plaintiff Request, Unopposed by Defense and Supported by Plaintiffs in Other Cases, for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 Numerous class action lawsuits were filed against several defendants alleging “[a] conspiracy to fix the price of Static Random Access Memory.” In re Static Random Access (SRAM) Antitrust Litig., 473 F.Supp.2d 1384, 1384-85 (Jud. Pan.Mult.Lit. February 9, 2007). Plaintiff’s lawyer in one of the class actions moved the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) pursuant to 28 U.
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Judicial Panel Grants Unopposed Request for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 but Agrees with Defense Attorneys and Non-Moving Plaintiffs that Class Actions Should be Centralized in Southern District of California Six class action lawsuits were filed against Morgan Stanley in Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas federal courts alleging violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by misclassifying certain employees as exempt from overtime pay and/or by assessing improper deductions against employee compensation.
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Judicial Panel Grants Request, Unopposed by Defense, for Pretrial Coordination of Class Action Lawsuits Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 but Rejects Plaintiff’s Request to Transfer Class Actions to District of Delaware Three federal securities class action lawsuits (two in Delaware and one in Illinois) were filed against JP Morgan Chase alleging fraudulent misrepresentations relating to its merger in 2004 with Bank One Corp. In re JP Morgan Chase & Co.
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Judicial Panel Rejects Opposition to Defense Request for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 and Grants Defense Motion for Centralization of Three Class Action Lawsuits Numerous class action lawsuits were filed against several defendants alleging “that plaintiffs suffered injuries resulting from their use of Tile Perfect Stand ‘n Seal “Spray-On” Grout Sealer.” In re Stand ‘N Seal Products Liab. Litig., 469 F.Supp.2d 1351, 1351 (Jud. Pan.Mult.Lit. January 5, 2007).
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Judicial Panel Holds Pretrial Coordination of Class Action Lawsuits Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 Warranted and Concurs with View of Some Plaintiff and Defense Attorneys that Eastern District of Pennsylvania is Appropriate Transferee Court Six federal antitrust securities class action lawsuits were filed in Alabama, California, Illinois and Pennsylvania against several defendants “aris[ing] out of allegations that certain conduct by the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) defendants-including the negotiation of rates for the sale of prescription drugs by retail pharmacies-violated the federal antitrust laws.
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Judicial Panel Agrees with Defense that Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 is Warranted for Two State Labor Law Class Action Lawsuits Two class action lawsuits were filed against Terminix in the Central and Northern Districts of California alleging violations of state labor laws for failure to pay overtime to pest control technicians and for misclassifying the class members as exempt employees.. In re Terminix Employment Practices Litig., 466 F.
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Over Defense Objection Judicial Panel Grants Request for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 and Transfers Class Action Lawsuits to Central District of California Despite Settlement of Action Pending in that District Three class action lawsuits were filed naming Banc of America Investment Services, Quick & Reilly, Fleet National Bank and/or Fleet Investment Services for alleged violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and/or state labor laws alleging the failure to pay overtime to individuals who worked as securities brokers or broker trainees.
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Judicial Panel Grants Unopposed Request for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 and Agrees with Defense that Eastern District of Missouri is Appropriate Transferee Court Several class actions were filed against Bayer CropScience and others on behalf of rice farmers asserting various causes or action arising out of “the contamination of commercial rice stocks with LLRice 601, a variety of genetically modified rice.” In re LLRice 601Contamination Litig., 466 F.
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Judicial Panel Rejects Defense Request for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 in the Southern District of New York and Agrees with Plaintiffs that Central District of California is Appropriate Court Several class action lawsuits were filed in New York, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota and Pennsylvania against Wachovia Corp., Wachovia Securities, First Union Securities and/or Prudential Equity Group alleging violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and/or state labor laws for failure to pay overtime to securities brokers.
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Judicial Panel Rejects Defense Opposition to Request for Pretrial Coordination Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 and Grants Motion for Centralization of Three Class Action Lawsuits Class action lawsuits were filed in California, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, in addition to an action filed in the Court of Federal Claims, against the federal government and others seeking “reimbursement of the communications excise tax on long-distance telephone service, where the charge for such service was not based on the distance of the telephone call.
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