Class Action Litigation Report® Index-Summary

BACKDATING STOCK OPTIONS

BANKING

– Checks

– – Convenience checks included in credit card billing statements, Cal. disclosure law preempted (9th Cir.), 105
– – Paychecks drawn on out-of-state banks subject to holds or fees to cash, Regis Corp. violated state law (N.D. Cal.), 24

– Consumer credit

See CONSUMER CREDIT

– Credit cards

See CREDIT CARDS

– Job discrimination by Tex. bank against minority applicants, settlement (DOL), In Brief, 473
– Loans

See LOANS

– Mortgages

See MORTGAGES

– Overtime, U.S. Bancorp sales representatives denied certification of FLSA collective action (N.D. Cal.), 185
– Privacy

See FINANCIAL PRIVACY

– Securities fraud

– – Bank of America sued for breaching fiduciary duty to trust beneficiaries, claims preempted (8th Cir.), 455; similar suit dismissed (8th Cir.), 518
– – Countrywide Financial sued for inflating share price, financial services firms added as defendants (C.D. Cal.), 90
– – Enron shareholders suit against investment banks, class properly decertified (U.S., rev den), 65
– – Merger challenged for misrepresentations in prospectus, pension fund's motion to intervene untimely (7th Cir.), 585
– – Parmalat collapse, banks settle claims that they helped conceal debt and inflate income, 516

BENEFITS

– Disability

See DISABILITY BENEFITS

– Employee

See EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

– Medicare and Medicaid

See MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

BEVERAGES

– Brew pubs settle workers' suit over missed meal and rest breaks (Cal. Super. Ct.), 344
– False advertising

– – Diet Coke purchasers class decertified (Mo.), 322
– – Fruit juice snacks for toddlers, deceptive packaging claims against Gerber reinstated (9th Cir.), 381

– Job bias, pattern-or-practice claims against Coca-Cola dismissed (11th Cir.), 136
– Securities fraud class counsel found unfit to serve after buying documents stolen from defendant Coca-Cola (N.D. Ga.), 186; suit settled, court gives preliminary approval, 555
– Takeover offer for Anheuser-Busch brewery, board of directors sued for lack of good faith consideration of (Mo. Cir. Ct.), 497

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION

– Asbestos

See ASBESTOS

– Border wall along Tex. boundary with Mexico, coalition of cities and counties sues Homeland Security Dep't (D.D.C.), 409
– Hiring of undocumented workers and misclassifying them as independent contractors, home construction firm sued (N.J. Super. Ct.), 228
– Job discrimination, union bias against black and Hispanic members, partial settlement approved (S.D.N.Y.), 109
– Layoffs, construction workers may proceed with suit over lack of WARN Act notice (W.D. Ark.), 243
– Prevailing wage claims, construction firm's demurrer judgment to class certification reversed (Cal. Ct. App.), 235
– Product liability

– – Composite decking material prone to mold and mildew stains, homeowners file nationwide class suit (W.D. Wash.), 229
– – Windows

– – – Expert testimony fails to show common issues would predominate, homeowners class denied certification (Cal. Ct. App.), 535
– – – Inert gas-filled window purchasers class certified (E.D. Wis.), 375

– Toxic torts, cement plant sued for not warning of chromium emissions (Cal. Super. Ct.), 557