Posts tagged Class Action

• Products from China Continue to Harm American Consumers

  Michael Myers | January 25, 2008 10:07 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Retailers selling products from China have been beleaguered by claims arising from defects in the Chinese-made products. One of the most publicized cases involved dog and cat food. We filed the first nationwide class action lawsuit in that case against Menu Foods and the companies that sold tainted pet food. Now another Chinese-made product is harming American consumers, the seemingly...

• Vacation Internationale--Class Action

  Michael Myers | December 16, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  We recently met with an owner of points in Vacation Internationale. When upgrading his ownership interest from a term of years to perpetual, representatives of Vacation Internationale advised that it owned the various vacation properties in fee simple. Based on information obtained from a former VI employee, it appears that this was a material misrepresentation and VI does not own many of its...

• Four Deaths Linked to Powerful Pain-Killer, Fentora

  Chelsea Gilbert | September 19, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On Thursday, September 13, Cephalon Inc. announced that four deaths have been linked to the powerful cancer pain drug, Fentora, which they manufacture. Fentora was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last September for use by specific cancer patients. The Fentora fatalities allegedly all involved patients using the drug improperly. Two of the patients who died were reportedly using...

• Attorney General Cautions Use of Chinese Tires

  Mark McLean | August 16, 2007 3:01 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna is one of 24 attorneys general throughout the country warning consumers to be wary of defective tires sold by Hangzhou Zhongce, or "HGR" , a Chinese tire manufacturer. Apparently, defective HGR tires have been suspected in causing a litany of car accidents in recent months. A recall is expected soon. Even though HGR is a foreign corporation, it is still...

• Apple and AT&T Sued Over iPhone

  Mark McLean | August 07, 2007 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Apple and AT&T are facing a potential class-action lawsuit over the battery life of the new iPhone. The suit alleges not only that the iPhone was defective, but also that corporate officers knew of the defects and fraudulently withheld that information from customers. The lawsuit follows a complaint sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs by the New York State Consumer Protection Board which asks him to...

• Samsung Sued for Faulty Camcorders

  Mark McLean | August 02, 2007 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Samsung customers recently filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging that it knowingly sold faulty camcorders, forcing customers to pay as much as $150 to fix them.In a lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Samsung is accused of ignoring customer complaints that its camcorders with an image sensor device known as a CCD imager...

• BarBri Settles Class Action Lawsuit

  Mark McLean | August 02, 2007 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  BarBri, the nation's leading preparation course for bar examinations throughout the country, recently settled a class action lawsuit brought by its customers, alleging BarBri violated antitrust laws by, among other things, colluding with Kaplan (an LSAT preparation course) to stay out of each other's dominant areas of emphasis. The case settled for $49 million.

• Tainted Ginger Recalled from China

  Mark McLean | August 02, 2007 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In the latest scandal involving Chinese food exports, tainted ginger has recently been recalled. Apparently, the ginger contained a toxic pesticide.State and federal health officials are now working to determine how the ginger got into this country and how widely it has been sold. It's not the first time that contaminated Chinese ginger has been a problem.U.S. port inspectors in Seattle have...

• Castleberry Foods Recalls Toxic Hot Dog Chili Sauce

  Mark McLean | July 26, 2007 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Castleberry Foods recently recalled cans of its hot dog chili sauce after the toxic Botulism poison was found in the sauce and caused four hospitalizations. Botulism is similar to Botox in the face--causing a muscle-paralyzing disease that comes from the extremely toxic Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium commonly found in soil.The toxin often originates from under-processed and under-heated...

• Washington Supreme Court Prohibits Class Action Waivers

  Mark McLean | July 20, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Washington's Supreme Court gave consumers a victory this month by ruling that companies may not disclaim class action liability. In a significant victory for consumers, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the former Cingular Wireless, now AT&T, cannot enforce a waiver in its contract that prohibits customers from pursuing a class action.The Supreme Court ruled that the waiver...