After 10 years of litigation, a class action settlement recovered $1.2 million in security deposit fees alleged to have been wrongfully withheld from more than 5,000 tenants.
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Read More »After 10 years of litigation, a class action settlement recovered $1.2 million in security deposit fees alleged to have been wrongfully withheld from more than 5,000 tenants.
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Read More »Where an automotive group, which was a defendant in a class action arising from its sale and marketing of hail-damaged vehicles as “brand-new” and “factory-fresh,” challenged the denial of its motion to stay a class action and compel the parties ...
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Read More »Where a trustee challenged the denial of his 2018 motion seeking payment from a 2002 class action settlement fund, the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying the motion and declining to reopen litigation in the case. Judgment ...
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Read More »Where in an ERISA class action an objector challenged the certification of a settlement class and the approval of the settlement agreement, the plaintiffs had standing to bring the class action, and the district court did not abuse its discretion ...
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Read More »Defendants appealed from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to plaintiff in the parties’ dispute involving their prescription drug benefit plan agreements, with plaintiff having filed suit to block defendants’ demand for class arbitration. The district court ruled that ...
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Read More »Where a vacuum manufacturer challenged an order certifying a nationwide class of plaintiffs in a case involving allegedly deceptive advertising practices and concluding that Missouri law applied to all claims, the only action that took place in Missouri was the ...
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Read More »Plaintiffs appealed the dismissal of their purported class action under the FDCPA. Where the least-sophisticated-consumer standard contained an objective element of reasonableness to avoid peculiar interpretations of debt-collector communications, the district court properly denied plaintiffs’ complaint. Judgment is affirmed. Carroll ...
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Read More »Where members brought a class action against a herbicide manufacturer alleging the company used misleading labeling on a concentrate herbicide, the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not err in approving the parties’ settlement and overruling the objections ...
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Read More »Where class representatives, who claimed an employer failed to pay overtime compensation, challenged the trial court’s denial of their amended motion for class certification, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the evidence was sufficient to fulfill the numerosity requirement ...
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Read More »Where a named plaintiff in a class action alleging the underpayment of gas royalties sought a new trial, arguing that the district court should have excluded the relevant royalty statements, the statements were relevant because they helped jurors to determine ...
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Read More »Where in a putative class action challenging oil and gas royalty payments for oil wells, 248 royalty owners moved to intervene to challenge the opt-out provisions, and the district court denied the motions, the judgment is affirmed because the owners ...
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