On September 7, 2022, Judge James V. Selna of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, […]
Read moreOn March 6, 2020, a federal court in Phoenix, Arizona certified a class action against Walgreens, Elizabeth Holmes, and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani in a series of lawsuits over patients’ claims that the defendants duped consumers into taking blood tests that were inaccurate and unreliable. The lawsuits were originally filed on behalf of patients who obtained Theranos blood testing services at Walgreens locations throughout Arizona and California in 2015 and 2016.
Read moreKaplan Fox is pleased to announce a proposed settlement of up to $500 million in the Apple iPhone “throttling” class actions originally filed in December 2017. As part of the proposed settlement, owners of iPhone models 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus, and SE may be eligible for payments of approximately $25 per device.
Read moreOn February 7, 2020, Kaplan Fox filed a class action lawsuit against French cosmetics manufacturer L’Oréal in federal court in San Francisco, California. The lawsuit alleges that L’Oréal violated consumer protection and warranty laws when it marketed and sold a series of liquid cosmetic containers in defective pumps.
Read moreOn January 31, 2020, a federal court in Oakland, California granted preliminary approval to a settlement with Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., over claims by consumers that Chipotle engaged in false and misleading advertising in connection with a marketing campaign over its allegedly “non-GMO” menu.
Read moreOn January 30, 2020, Judge Edmund Sargus, of the United States Court for the Southern District of Ohio, granted final approval to a $4.4 million settlement that will be distributed to 4,500 patients in Ohio who claimed that CVS/Caremark and its business affiliates mishandled and wrongfully disclosed their HIV status in connection with a mass mailing that took place in the summer of 2017.
Read moreOn January 28, 2020, Kaplan Fox filed a class action lawsuit against BA Nutrition in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Read moreOn May 3, 2019, Kaplan Fox filed a class action lawsuit against GNC in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. On behalf of a nationwide class of consumers, plaintiffs allege that GNC violated various state consumer protection laws because it 1) unlawfully sold drugs to them that had not been preapproved by the Food & Drug Administration and 2) deceptively marketed its proprietary brand dietary supplements as lawful and therapeutic.
Read moreOn November 7, 2019, Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of the U.S. District Court in New Jersey has appointed Laurence D. King to the steering committee to assist with the management and prosecution of a sprawling multi-district litigation arising out of a medical records data breach involving a number of major laboratory companies, including Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, CareCentrix, and Sunrise Medical Labs, among others.
Read moreKaplan Fox is currently investigating claims from workers in the so-called “sharing economy” that work for many app-based companies providing services such as driving, deliveries, pet-sitting and personal errands. Recently, a number of lawsuits have been filed against companies providing on demand services such as Uber, Lyft, Sprig, GrubHub, DoorDash, and Homejoy alleging that its “independent contractors” are actually employees entitled to wages and other benefits.
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