Class Action
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Home Depot USA Inc. asked new job applicants for permission to check their credit histories using forms that violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to a proposed class action in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Michigan State University won a bid on Friday to disqualify the Nichols Law Firm PLLC from representing women who claim they were sexually abused by former MSU sports doctor Larry Nassar when a federal judge ruled that Nichols’ representation of another school employee who once defended Nassar’s conduct created a conflict of interest… Read this…
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A gym chain that allegedly used an “autodialer” to send texts to customers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the Ninth Circuit erred by expanding the definition of “autodialer” to revive a putative class action against the company… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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Fairfield University and other religious entities said they would pay more than $60 million to settle allegations that they failed to stop a now-convicted child molester from sexually abusing dozens of boys at a school for disadvantaged children in Haiti, according to court filings made Friday… Read this piece at Law360.
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Several individuals who bought purportedly faulty Seagate Technology hard drives lost a renewed bid to pursue their claims as a class on Tuesday, with a California federal judge ruling they hadn’t shown the drives’ failure rates affected members of the proposed class in the same way… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 