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WEBB v. ADA COUNTY

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Class Actions
Class action attorney fees were compensable under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, however, the amount set by the district court was vacated because...

NEHMER v. VETERANS' ADMIN. OF THE US

Class Actions, Government Benefits, Military Law
The VA is required to provide retroactive benefits to any class member who submitted a claim after May 3, 1989, based on disease that is service...

STROUGO v. BASSINI

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
Where alleged injuries resulting from the coercive nature of a rights offering were to shareholders alone, and did not derive from an injury to the...

MCMEANS v. SCRIPPS HEALTH

Class Actions, Health Law, Insurance Law
Where the liens defendant placed on plaintiffs' California's Hospital Lien Act recoveries were based upon charges that were greater than the amounts...

HARLEY v. MINNESOTA MINING AND MFG. CO.

Class Actions, ERISA
Where an ERISA defined benefit plan's surplus was sufficiently large that particular investment loss did not cause injury-in-fact to plaintiffs'...

GLOVER v. STANDARD FED. BANK

Banking Law, Class Actions
Certification of a class comprised of anyone who obtained a mortgage financed by defendant was reversed because a loan-specific analysis is required...

LIPTON v. PATHOGENESIS CORP.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
Where allegations in a securities class action complaint, taken as a whole, fail to raise a strong enough inference of scienter to meet the heightened...

FISCHER v. THE VANTIVE CORP.

Class Actions, Securities Law
Where a securities fraud class action complaint is not sufficiently particularized and does not raise a strong inference that misleading statements...

KRUMAN v. CHRISTIE'S INT'L PLC

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions
The Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act of 1982 does not alter the rule announced in National Bank of Canada v. Interbank Card Assoc., 666 F.2d...

WEST v. PRUDENTIAL SECS., INC.

Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
Where no causal link could be shown between non-public information, in the form of false statements made by a stockbroker to a handful of his clients,...