This page has a list of lawsuits brought as class actions.
Class action lawsuits
[edit]Lawsuit | Subject of lawsuit | Court of decision | Year of decision |
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Alperin v. Vatican Bank | conversion, unjust enrichment, restitution, the right to an accounting, human rights violations and violations of international law | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
In re American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. Litigation | violations of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
Anderson v. Jackson | demolition of public housing damaged by Hurricane Katrina | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | 2009 |
Cobell v. Salazar | Indian trust assets | United States District Court for the District of Columbia | 2009 |
Collins v. United States | honorable discharge under "Don't ask, don't tell" | United States Court of Federal Claims | 2013 |
Conant v. McCaffrey | right to recommend medical marijuana | United States district court | |
Daniels v. City of New York | racial profiling and unlawful stop and frisk | ||
Daniela Apostol v. Eastman Kodak Company | false advertising, unfair enrichment, fraudulent concealment, unfair competition[1] | ||
De Beers Diamonds Antitrust Litigation | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey | ||
Doe v. Chiquita Brands International | funding and arming known terrorist organizations | ||
Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores | discriminating against women in promotions, pay, and job assignments | United States Supreme Court | 2011 |
EEOC v. Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America[2] | creation and long-term toleration of a sexually hostile work environment | United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | 1998 |
EEOC (Janice Smith) v. Wal-Mart Stores | hiring decisions based on gender | ||
Fraley v. Facebook, Inc. | misappropriation of users' names and likenesses | United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
Gonzalez v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores | racial and gender discrimination in employment and marketing | ||
Gratz v. Bollinger | undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy too mechanistic in its use of race as a factor in admissions | Supreme Court of the United States | 2003 |
Greek Cypriots v. TRNC and HSBC Bank USA | denial of access to land and property | United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
GM Instrument Cluster Settlement | owners of vehicles with faulty instrument clusters receive "special coverage" | U.S. District Court in Seattle | 2008 |
Hepting v. AT&T | surveillance of telecommunications | ||
James v. Meow Media | video game responsibility for murders | ||
Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. | sexual harassment, abusive language, threats, stalking and intimidation | ||
Jewel v. NSA | surveillance | 2010 | |
Lane v. Facebook, Inc. | internet privacy and social media | United States District Court for the Northern District of California | 2010 |
Luévano v. Campbell | racial bias in written test for employment | ||
Madrigal v. Quilligan | involuntary sterilization | ||
Mauldin v. Wal-Mart Stores | health insurance not covering prescription contraceptives | United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia | |
Mochizuki v. United States | forcible kidnapping and imprisonment | ||
Morgan v. Hennigan | racial segregation and school busing | ||
Nasdaq Market Makers Antitrust Litigation | stock market collusion | ||
National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation | e-commerce website accessibility | ||
National Organization for Women v. Scheidler | anti-abortion activities | Supreme Court of the United States | 1994 |
Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation | price fixing and other allegedly anti-competitive trade practices in the credit card industry | 2012 | |
Pigford v. Glickman | racial discrimination in its allocation of farm loans and assistance | 1999/2010 | |
Price v. Philip Morris, Inc | cigarette company advertising class action led by plaintiff's attorney Stephen Tillery resulted in $10.1 billion judgement[3] | Madison County, Illinois | 2003/2006 |
Ritalin class action lawsuits | promoting disorder ADHD to increase drug profits | ||
Robbins v. Lower Merion School District | charged schools secretly spied on students through surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home; privacy rights | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | filed 2010 |
Ruiz v. Estelle | prisoners' rights | United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | 1979 |
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women (2003) | anti-abortion activities | Supreme Court of the United States | 2003 |
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women (2006) | anti-abortion activities | Supreme Court of the United States | 2006 |
Shell Canada lawsuit | gasoline additive damaging fuel supply systems of cars | ||
Shyamala Rajender v. University of Minnesota | employment discrimination based on sex | United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | 1980 |
Smiley v. Citibank | limiting credit card late fees and other penalties | Supreme Court of the United States | 1996 |
Sullivan v. Zebley | Social Security regulation on determining disability for children | Supreme Court of the United States | 1990 |
Swift v. Zynga | misleading advertising | United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
TNA Entertainment, LLC v. Wittenstein and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. | use of secret contact information to steal talent | ||
Turkmen v. Ashcroft | unlawful detainment | ||
Vroegh v. Eastman Kodak Company | false advertising, unfair business practices, breach of contract, fraud, deceit and/or misrepresentation | ||
World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks | retrieving deposits from dormant bank accounts | 2000 |
Lawsuits related to class action
[edit]Lawsuit | Subject of lawsuit | Court of decision | Year of decision |
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AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion | contracts that exclude class action arbitration | Supreme Court of the United States | 2011 |
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit | SLUSA preempting state law class action claims | Supreme Court of the United States | 2006 |
West v. Randall | required parties to class action | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
See also
[edit]Class action lawyers
[edit]- Kristina Baehr (class action lawyer)
- William Lerach (class action lawyer)
- Tim Misny (class action lawyer)
- David I. Shapiro (class action lawyer)
- Paul Sprenger (lawyer representing employees in class actions)
- Harvey Thomas Strosberg (Canadian class action lawyer)
- Ted Wells (lawyer representing corporations in class actions)
Class action law firms
[edit]- Center for Class Action Fairness (law firm representing consumers in class actions)
- Edelson McGuire (law firm representing consumers in class actions)
Other persons involved in class actions
[edit]- William Hohri (class action lead plaintiff)
- Harry Kalven (American jurist, a pioneer in class action)
Legislation
[edit]- Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act (in the US)
- Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (in the US)
Other related topics
[edit]- 2007 National Football League videotaping controversy#Willie Gary lawsuit
- 2007 pet food recalls#Litigation
- 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak#Class-action lawsuits
- 2009 Sidekick data loss
- 2009–2011 Toyota vehicle recalls#Litigation
- AOL search data leak#Lawsuits
- Aaron Broussard#Hurricane Katrina lawsuit
- Aeroplan#Class action lawsuit
- Agent Orange#U.S veterans
- Air France Flight 358#Passenger class action
- Airborne (dietary supplement)#Class actions and settlements
- Albany Law School#Controversy
- Algo Centre Mall#Lawsuit
- Amway#Class action settlement
- Apple Inc. litigation#Consumer class actions
- Audi TT#Lawsuits
- Aurora Bank#Lawsuits
- Banning Lyon#Class action lawsuit
- Benson & Hedges#Canadian class action lawsuit
- BigBand Networks#Class action lawsuit
- Billy Sullivan (American football)#Class action lawsuit
- Black Bike Week#Noise limit faces lawsuit
- Black Saturday bushfires#Lawsuits
- Blizzard Entertainment#StarCraft privacy lawsuit
- Bougainville Copper#US lawsuit
- Brazilian hair straightening#Class action lawsuits
- British American Tobacco#Canadian class action lawsuit\
- Brookfield Asset Management#Birch Mountain class action
- Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California#History
- CEMA (record label distributor)#Lawsuit
- California Uninsured Patient Hospital Pricing Litigation
- Cameron Inquiry#Lawsuit
- Chester Upland School District#Class action lawsuit
- Chinese drywall#Lawsuits
- Cineplex Entertainment#Class action lawsuit
- Clayton College of Natural Health#Closure and lawsuit
- Click fraud#Lawsuits
- Criticism of Coca-Cola#Racial discrimination
- Criticism of Facebook#Class action lawsuit[broken anchor]
- Criticism of eBay#eBay Motors class action lawsuit
- Deepwater Horizon litigation
- Denny's#Discrimination
- DirecTV#California class action lawsuit
- Dow Chemical Company#Nuclear weapons
- E18 error#Consumer response and class action
- Ed Fagan#2002 Slavery class action lawsuit
- Education Management Corporation#Securities fraud class action lawsuit dismissal
- Envision EMI, LLC#Lawsuit filed
- EverBank#Lawsuit
- Fastenal#Employee class-action controversy
- Foxtons#Foxtons USA
- Fuqi International#Class action lawsuit
- GM Instrument Cluster Settlement
- Global warming controversy#Litigation
- Google Book Search Settlement Agreement#Lawsuit
- Google Buzz#Legal issues
- Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks#Ground Zero workers' lawsuit
- Hitachi Deskstar#Lawsuit
- Honda Accord (North America eighth generation)#Brake wear class action lawsuit
- Hot Coffee mod#Civil class actions
- Howard Engle#Smoking class action suit
- Intelius#Class action lawsuits
- Japan Tobacco International#Canadian class action lawsuit
- Joe Arpaio#Melendres v. Arpaio racial profiling class-action lawsuit
- Judicial economy#Class action lawsuits
- Kaplan, Inc.#Class-action lawsuit
- Keele Valley Landfill#Resident class action lawsuit
- Kemper Corporation#Class-action lawsuit
- Kids for cash scandal#Victim lawsuits
- Kweku Hanson#Class action lawsuit against Ocwen Federal FSB
- Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water#Class-action lawsuit
- Long-term effects of benzodiazepines#Class-action lawsuit
- Lowe's#Lawsuits
- MMR vaccine controversy#MMR litigation starts
- Mannatech#Securities Exchange Act class-action lawsuit
- Match.com#Controversy
- McCullom Lake, Illinois#Class action lawsuit
- Medivation#Class action lawsuit
- Mercedes-Benz M156 engine#M156 lawsuit
- Metabolix#Lawsuit
- Money Mart#Lawsuits
- MyLife#Class-action lawsuit
- Myron W. Wentz#Shareholder lawsuit
- NebuAd#Class-action lawsuit
- No Fly List#ACLU lawsuit[broken anchor]
- Oath of Citizenship (Canada)#Public action
- Pacific Seafood#Incidents
- Panera Bread#Lawsuits
- Pefloxacin#Current litigation
- PlayStation 3 system software#Class action suit filed over update 3.0
- PlayStation 3 system software#Class action suits filed over update 3.21
- PlayStation Network outage#Legal action against Sony
- Polybutylene#Class action lawsuits and removal from building code approved usage
- R2C2#Class action lawsuit
- Raytheon#Securities litigation
- Resignation of Shirley Sherrod#Class action lawsuit
- Ringtone#Lawsuits
- RiverCity Motorway#Lawsuit
- Shannon, Quebec#Cancer cluster (in Canada)
- Shell Oil Company#Polybutylene lawsuit
- Singapore Power#Lawsuit
- Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal#New York and California class-action suits
- Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy#Legal action
- System access fee#Class action lawsuit
- Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois#Second class action lawsuit
- Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois#Third class-action lawsuit
- TD Ameritrade#Security breaches
- Tekelec#Shareholder class action lawsuit
- Tenaha, Texas#Class action
- Texas City Disaster#Legal case
- Texas Youth Commission#ACLU lawsuit
- The Brick#Lawsuit
- The Chiari Institute#Lawsuits
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law#2011 class action lawsuit against TJSL
- Thomas M. Cooley Law School#Class action against Cooley
- Three Cups of Tea#Lawsuits
- TracFone Wireless#Class action
- True (dating service)#:0
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Representative Office to the United States#Legal action
- Tyrone Hayes#Class action lawsuit
- United Parcel Service#Employment actions
- Vartkes Yeghiayan#Class-action lawsuits
- Volkswagen emissions scandal#Legal and financial repercussions
- White House FBI files controversy#Judicial Watch lawsuit
- WinFixer#Class action lawsuit
- Xbox 360 technical problems#Lawsuit
- YTB International#Lawsuits
References
[edit]- ^ "Class action complaint filing for case: 30-2011-00510342-CU-FR-CXC" (PDF).
- ^ "MMNA and EEOC reach voluntary agreement to settle harassment suit" Archived 2009-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, EEOC press release, June 11, 1998
- ^ Korein Tillery will retry light cigarettes case against Philip Morris, Market Watch, October 25, 2011
External links
[edit]- Judge certifies Wal-Mart class action - U.S. business- nbcnews.com
- The Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C) (Listing of racial discrimination class actions in the Federal government)
- Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers - The Boston Globe (December 3, 2009)
- Mississippi's first class-action lawsuit filed over oil spill - Oil Spill - SunHerald.com (30 April 2010)