Consumer complaints under attorney investigation; no lawsuits filed yet. When certain consumer complaints affect a larger number of individuals, an attorney may begin a class action investigation. The number of people affected in order to begin an investigation can and will vary depending on the nature of the product in question and the complaint involved. For example, a serious auto defect can lead to a loss of many lives and prompt a class action investigation based on a small number of complaints; a mislabeled food product might be recalled but not result in actual injury to anyone and, therefore, not prompt a class action investigation. If an attorney determines there is cause for legal action, a class action investigation can lead to a class action lawsuit being filed.
The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to file a class action lawsuit regarding a reported fivefold increase over the number of people stopped and frisked by city police. The New York Times reported that the New York Police Department stopped more than 500...
A lawsuit has been filed against the vegetable grower for allegedly failing to pay farm workers back wages. The lawsuit is seeking class action status on behalf of more than 3000 farm workers from Mexico and Central America who picked tomatoes for...
According to recent press reports, some of the biggest companies on the Internet are failing to cancel online subscriptions after being requested to do so by their customers, or these companies are making cancellation so difficult that customers are...
A lawsuit has been filed and is seeking class action status in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against WiMAX solutions provider Alvarion and some of its officers and directors. The lawsuit claims Alvarion...
A lawsuit has been filed against some of Canada's largest supermarket chains claiming grocery workers' pension plans have lost more than $1 billion due to trustee negligence. The defendants include Loblaw Cos. Ltd., George Weston Ltd., the Great...
Two class action lawsuits have been filed against the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners for allegedly violating the Personal Information Protection Act. More than 1.3 million voters in Chicago had their Social Security numbers released to...
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Lafayette County Judge Frank Scroggins, former county attorney Danny Rodgers, and current county attorney John Griffin for allegedly deliberately keeping money belonging to private citizens. The...
Genentech's new drug for an age-related disease that causes blindness has been linked to an elevated risk of stroke. The company's own large scale study of the eye drug, Lucentis, confirmed tentative findings from earlier clinical trials showing...
Ebek has issued a voluntary nationwide recall of the dietary supplement product sold under the name Liviro3. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lab analysis of Liviro3 samples found the product contains tadalafil. Tadalafil is an FDA approved...
Bullitt County residents have filed a lawsuit against the railroad alleging negligence and failure to warn citizens regarding a fiery train derailment on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. A dozen tanker cars derailed and spilled various chemicals;...