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In re: Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Mortgage Servicing Litig.

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit alleging numerous charges against mortgage companies, denial of motion to dismiss is affirmed where the case was largely unripe for a...

Williams v. Gover

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Law, Indian Law
In an action arising from a previously terminated rancheria's decision to organize a tribal government and the resulting exclusion of plaintiffs from...

Johnson v. Aljian

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In the context of insider trading liability under the federal securities laws, in order to maintain a claim under Section 20A of the Exchange Act, a...

DeBenedictis v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
In an action raising securities class action claims against Merrill Lynch alleging that its Fund Registration Statements misled investors by failing...

In re Allied Chem. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a class action alleging exposure to chemical fumes and leaks from several sites where pesticides were mixed or stored before the sites were placed...

Johnson v. City of Tulsa

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
A prevailing party in a class-action civil-rights lawsuit may be awarded attorney's fees for post-consent-decree efforts to preserve the fruits of the...

Discover Bank v. Vaden

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Debt Collection, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In case arising from defendant's failure to pay a credit card balance and one plaintiff suing her in state court, resulting in defendant's...

Anderson v. Cagle's, Inc.

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Order decertifying plaintiffs' collective action alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, severing defendants, and granting summary...

Avery v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts
In a class action suit for breach of contract and statutory consumer fraud, judgement in favor of plaintiff reversed where: 1) because of the various...

Gridley v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Insurance Law
In a class action for violations of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and for unjust enrichment, an interstate forum...