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PAPER SYS. INC. v. NIPPON PAPER INDS. CO., LTD.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions
Even if plaintiffs did not purchase paper directly from specific defendant, it was improper to dismiss that defendant while its status as a member of...

SPAULDING v. UNITED TRANSP. UNION AND UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Because plaintiffs failed to establish the asserted violation by union of its constitution, its claimed selection of a biased administrator, and its...

STIRMAN v. EXXON CORP.

Class Actions, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
In putative class action wherein plaintiffs alleged defendant breached its lease obligations to them and to a class of similarly situated individuals...

GREENLESS v. ALMOND

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Due to recent amendment of Medicaid law, in claiming that federal law required State to pay class of Medicaid recipients a portion of the proceeds...

CULVER v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
For class action purposes, plaintiffs who never received an employment application because of their race are not similar to plaintiffs of the same...

IN RE: US BANCORP LITIGATION

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
A 36 percent attorney's fee award to class counsel is appropriate for obtaining a significant recovery for class.

FERGUSON v. LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP

Class Actions, Professional Malpractice
Prior to appointment of lead attorney as class counsel, there is no duty of the lead attorney to class members that have retained other counsel.

PATON v. NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIV.

Class Actions, Education Law
In a class action alleging discrimination against female college athletes, plaintiff who had an athletic scholorship at defendant university and...

MANGUNO v. PRUDENTIAL PROP. & CAS. INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Under Louisiana law, claim that insurer intentionally failed to fully pay proceeds allows recovery for attorneys fees such that a class action based...

IN RE: NAVIGANT CONSULTING, INC.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In a class action suit, an objector's request to intervene and receive party status, in order to appeal a judgement, should not be granted when the...