In Toronto, a class action lawsuit has been filed against Maple Leaf Goods after a listeriosis outbreak caused by its tainted meat products. So far, 20 people have died because of this harmful bacterium.
Massachusetts Wal-Mart employees and former staff sued the retail giant in a class action law suit in 2001 for allegedly withholding their wages and cutting their breaks short.
The case was delayed in 2006 after a Middlesex Superior Court judge refused to certify the class action suit and tossed out some evidence. But in Sept 2008, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court overturned that ruling, and the case is now moving forward again.
Remember the furor over melamine-tainted pet food? It seems the issue is at rest and the news is abuzz with the China milk scandal.
For those who have not heard but were affected, you’ll want to know that the deadline this class-action settlement is coming up real soon.
New York state restaurant, T.K. Ribbing’s Family Restaurant of Falcone, has launched a lawsuit against 13 major U.S. egg producers and three egg trade groups, with the accusation that they deliberately fixed prices by reducing the supply of eggs in the last eight years.
The good news for Bayer is that they don’t have to deal with a class action from disgruntled farmers, but that doesn’t mean it is the end of litigation.
A federal judge denied a class action lawsuit to be filed against Bayer CropScience AG over the accidental release of experimental genetically engineered rice into the food supply.
Social network company Facebook has been slapped with a class action suit because of its controversial Beacon advertising system.
Lead plaintiff Patricia Wiener filed a class action lawsuit against yogurt company Dannon for making false claims on its probiotic products. She is represented by attorney Tim Blood from Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins.
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In July 2008, Wal-Mart lost a $6.5 million class action lawsuit in a Minnesota court after an arduous three-month trial. A state court judge ruled that Wal-Mart broke state labor laws more than two million times because the supermarket chain failed to provide its employees proper rest breaks. The damages were awarded to approximately 56,000 Wal-Mart employees in Minnesota.
In their battle over termination fees, mobile phone carrier Sprint was ordered to fork out $18.3 million to customers who filed a class action suit over fees charged for ending their contracts early.
Sprint must also pay out another $54.5 million to customers who were charged the fees but haven’t paid them yet, under the court ruling. This is a bad financial hit on already struggling Sprint.
American drug company Merck is facing a class action certified by The Ontario Superior Court of Justice over its troubled painkiller Vioxx.
The pharmaceutical company is paying out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits in the US.
