A food safety inspector said Wednesday that most, if not all, of the prepackaged salad mix that sickened hundreds of people in Iowa and Nebraska wasn’t grown in either state. Iowa Food and Consumer Safety Bureau chief Steven Mandernach said …
It’s clear that Mark Brown is a smart guy, maybe even borderline brilliant. But what’s astounding is the way prosecutors say he apparently pulled off a major, years long financial fraud, taking in big corporations, courts and attorneys across the …
Hundreds of residents from two Des Moines, Iowa apartment buildings may move forward with a class action lawsuit over a bedbug infestation in what may be one of the nation’s first class action cases against apartment owners and managers regarding …
Across industries and practice areas, class action lawsuits continue to affect companies, and corporate legal departments are devising better and more innovative matter management and cost control tools to combat them. According to the 2nd Annual Carlton Fields Class Action …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a homeowner seeking to sue his insurer could not file suit in a state court considered friendly to plaintiffs. In a unanimous ruling that marks a setback for lawyers who file certain …
Beer lovers across the U.S. have filed $5 million class-action lawsuits accusing Anheuser-Busch of watering down its Budweiser, Michelob and other brands. The suits were filed in Pennsylvania, California and other states on behalf of consumers allegedly cheated out of …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday weighed whether to impose new limits on class action lawsuits, as it reviewed whether a homeowner’s lawsuit against his insurer belonged in a state court considered friendly to plaintiffs. During oral argument, several justices …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend against class-action lawsuits, in a case it will review in the term that starts on Oct. …
It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill. Four years later, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had turned the case into a …
About 600 victims of a flood caused by the failure of a century-old irrigation canal in Fernley, Nevada, in 2008 have received their share of a $10 million settlement. The settlement funds distributed last month stemmed from class-action lawsuits against …