A class action lawsuit was filed against those who are responsible for the oil spill that leaked 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the San Francisco Bay last November 7, 2007.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of all the fishermen who have suffered losses due to the spill.
Steve Fitz is a Pillar Point Harbor fisherman who is part of the lawsuit filed last Tuesday against Hanjin Shipping Co. and other principals responsible for the oil spill. The suit was filed by the Burlingame firm, Cotchett, Pitre and McCarthy.
The lawsuit calls the spill a public nuisance and the result of negligence. It seeks unspecified damages to all the fishermen affected. It also seeks environmental monitoring so that none of this will happen again in the future.
Miley Cyrus has become quite a popular personality thanks to the Hannah Montana show on Disney. Thus it is not surprising that thousands of fans are trying their best to get to the Hannah Montana live show. Unfortunately, not all of them were able to get tickets despite the promise made by Miley Cyrus’ official website.
Now things get serious. Ticketless fans are now turning to the law for a resolution.
Two popular law firms have announced that they have filed class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against Interactive Media Marketing, Inc. and Smiley Miley Inc. This is on behalf of a New Jersey woman and anyone else who joined the Miley Cyrus Fan Club at mileyworld.com which promised that joining the fans club would make it easier to get Hannah Montana concert tickets.
A class action lawsuit was filed just recently in Orange Country Superior Court against S & F Management Company, Inc; S & F Management Company, LLC; Windsor Healthcare Management, Inc,; and its 15 nursing care facilities around the state. The suit was filed on behalf of Donald Boone by and through his representative, Atty. Virginia Boone.
The suit alleges that Windsor’s ads, web sites, and brochures, and other promotional materials great claims that the company could not really provide. The company just could not deliver. Windsor is even believed to be an elder abuse case in the making according to Attorney Stephen Garcia.
A class action lawsuit was filed against the city of Sioux Falls by owner and renters who suffered from flood damage in 2004. The lawsuit alleges that Sioux Falls did not keep up with storm and sanitary sewer maintenance, causing the water and sewage to back up into basements.
The owners and renters of the city suffered from flood damage in 2004 have mailed out almost 30,000 letters to the households in the area of Sioux Falls bordered by 57th street on the south, Russell avenue to the north, Kiwanis Avenue to the west and Southeastern avenue to the east. The letters will soon show up in thousands of Sioux Falls mailboxes. The letter explains how residents who had property damaged during the rainfall in May and June of 2004 can hold the city responsible.
A class action lawsuit was filed last Tuesday by a San Diego law firm against Tarragon Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit was done on behalf of the purchasers of Tarragon’s common stock between January 5, 2005, and August 9, 2007.
The law firm - Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, alleges Tarragon and certain officers and directors issued materially false and misleading statements concerning the company’s business and financial results.
A spokesman from Tarragon said that it’s company policy not to comment on pending litigation.
Genzyme Corporation, a U.S. biotechnology company announced on Thursday that it reached an agreement in principle to settle a shareholder class-action lawsuit for a whopping $64 million. The lawsuit in question seeks the consolidation of the biotechnology company’s tracking stock structure in 2003.
The company said that it used a formula in its charter to determine the share prices for the purpose of exchanging shares from the smaller oncology and biosurgery businesses.
However, some biosurgery shareholders felt that something was wrong with the move. The timing of the consolidation hurt the value of the shareholders’ holdings and a class- action lawsuit was filed on their behalf.
Tony Merchant of the Merchant Law Group is attempting to launch a class action lawsuit against the makers of Avandia, a popular Type 2 diabetes drug. He filed statements of claim Saskatchewan and Ontario on Monday, alleging that GlaxoSmithKline should have done more to warn consumers of the drug’s risks.
"(The plaintiffs) have suffered heart attacks or suffered loss of their vision, and in some cases they have died," Merchant alleged in an interview late Monday. "Every drug does some good or bad," he continued. "The question is whether people were sufficiently warned.
The drug in question, Avandia, is prescribed for Type 2 diabetes to control blood sugar by increasing the body’s sensitivity to insulin. The U.S. government health advisers made a recommendation to the Food and Drug Administration that evidence of an increased risk of heart attack from using Avandia does not merit its removal from the market.
Nine people have filed a class-action lawsuit against Egg Harbor Log Den. The lawyers of the said plaintiffs are seeking compensation for ailments caused by eating and drinking at the Log Den in Egg Harbor. The lawsuit is filed in the Door County Circuit Court and is seeking punitive damages and compensatory damages as well as lost wages, out-of-pocket expenses, medical expenses, lawyers' fees and court costs.
Brett Reetz, one of the three lawyers who filed the lawsuit said: "Restaurants are not supposed to serve food and drink that cause people injury. These injured people need to be compensated, and this action facilitates an efficient process to handle their claims."
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been attacked with quite a number of criticisms lately. Just last week, a class action lawsuit was filed in a Florida court alleging that Microsoft negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a way that causes the expensive game discs to be scratched, rendering the games unusable.
Just this Monday, a similar case was filed in the U.S. District Court for Southern California by two residents of the state: Christine Moskowitz and Dan Wood. The lawsuit is seeking not less than $5 million in damages for Xbox 360 buyers affected by the alleged glitch.
Moskowitz said in the California court filing that in March 2006, she bought for her son an Xbox 360, along with the popular games Gears of War, Crackdown, and Saints Row. Within a few months of using the game discs, they bore circular scratch marks and wouldn’t work properly.
Philip Morris USA and other cigar makers asked for an appeal concerning last year’s lawsuit over tobacco companies marketing of ‘light’ cigarettes. Altria Group Inc., owner of Philip Morris together with other companies made the appeal last Tuesday saying that a federal judge made a mistake of granting a class-action status to the said lawsuit.
There were 65 different brands of light cigarettes with hundreds of advertising campaigns for over 35 years covered by the class certification. Representatives of the tobacco companies said that the certification was overboard and the issues are so individualized for each brand or each smoker’s cases that the lawsuit cannot be and should not be grouped in a class.