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• REPORT: Honda plans to settle Civic Hybrid mileage suit out of court. Is it a fair deal?

  
  ITsky — Authority: 151
  2008 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery If you buy a hybrid, you’ll be rewarded with excellent fuel economy, right? Well, that’s the idea, but sometimes things don’t turn out exactly as we had hoped. Such is apparently the case with a number of Honda Civic Hybrid owners who claim ...
  4 hours ago

• REPORT: Honda plans to settle Civic Hybrid mileage suit out of court. Is it a fair deal?

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 739
  Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Government/Legal , Honda , Earnings/Financials 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery If you buy a hybrid, youll be rewarded with excellent fuel economy, right? Well, thats the idea, but sometimes things dont turn out exactly as we had hoped. ...
  4 hours ago

• Cellulite Supplements vs. Cellulite Creams

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  In the never ending quest to find the ultimate cellulite buster, women are now searching for that cure-all vitamin or herbal remedy that will literally make the cellulite on their abdomen, buns and thighs disappear. But are these cellulite supplements even effective? If so, how do they propose to elminate or reduce ...
  8 hours ago

• Why There Will Be No Year Of The Cloud

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Dwayne Melancon , Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development I recently got an email talking about “the year of the cloud.” I call shenanigans. You see, I remember back in the olden days (back in the 1980’s) when magazines and industry luminaries would regularly declare each year to be ...
  13 hours ago

• Honda plans to settle Civic Hybrid mileage suit out of court. Is it a fair deal?

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 666
  Filed under: Green Culture , Hybrid , MPG , Honda , Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , USA 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery If you buy a hybrid, youll be rewarded with excellent fuel economy, right? Well, thats the idea, but sometimes things dont turn out exactly ...
  17 hours ago

• ETF classs action new phenomenon

  
  FP Legal Post — Authority: 434
   Securities class actions related to the credit crisis are expected to hit 235 cases in 2009, down slightly from 253 filings  last year, according to NERA Economic Consulting .  However, while credit crisis suits have gradually declined this year, the company reports an increase in securities class actions ...
  19 hours ago

• MetroPCS faces class-action lawsuit over ‘Unlimited International Calling’ plan

  
  Boy Genius Report — Authority: 768
  So much for that MetroPCS tagline “Unlimit Yourself.” It turns out that the carrier’s unlimited international add-on, which sounded like a great deal for just $5 a month, excludes many countries and regions like Israel and the UK. Now MetroPCS has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the issue. The lawsuit ...
  22 hours ago

• Class action objection

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 632
  Eric Turkewitz, noted plaintiff’s-lawyer blogger, teams up with Ted Frank, noted Overlawyered.com blogger, to object to a Yahoo! class action settlement. Tags: class action settlements , legal blogs , Ted Frank Related posts September 23 roundup (1) Latest issue of Class Action Watch (2) Grand ...
  1 day ago

• I Object, Unless You Pay Me … One Million Dollars!

  
  ClassActionBlawg.com — Authority: 114
  Vanderbilt law professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick has published a great new research paper titled  The End of Objector Blackmail?   The paper discusses the problems of objectors blackmailing the parties to a class action settlement into paying them a portion of the fees at the threat of holding up final approval and ...
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• Ontario judge certifies IMAX class action

  
  FP Legal Post — Authority: 434
    In a groundbreaking case, an Ontario Superior Court judge hascertified a class-action law suit against IMAX Corp., the Canadianentertainment technology maven that pioneered giant-screen cinema. Thecase is notable because it is the first to test changes to the OntarioSecurities Act, which created civil liability ...
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• Aggregation Aggravation

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 583
  In our never-ending search for fascinating stuff to share with you, weve stumbled across two recent articles analyzing aggregate litigation. The first is " Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation ," by Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt). Nagareda thinks about situations where decisions made in individual cases affect ...
  2 days ago

• NFL Football and Class Actions, a Mix as Good as Chocolate and Peanut Butter?

  
  ClassActionBlawg.com — Authority: 114
  Two of my greatest passions are class action law and NFL football, although not necessarily in that order.  So, my interest is always piqued when the two are combined.  Much to my delight, I came across this article from Rebecca Mowbray of The Times-Picayune that Saints Coach Sean Payton is the lead plaintiff ...
  5 days ago

• Geist: (Canadas) Record industry faces liability over `infringement

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history. His estate, which still owns the copyright in more than 50 of his ...
  5 days ago

• ACORN Document Dump: Citibank Jeopardizes Customers for ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  What does the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai and ACORN have in common?  Both of them have some bankers on Wall Street worried.  When brokers and traders returned to work after the Thanksgiving Holiday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went on a wild rollercoaster ride dropping as much as 233 points during the trading ...
  6 days ago

• Indiana: City Threatens $2500 Fines for Challenging Traffic Tickets

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Motorists who receive minor parking or traffic tickets in Indianapolis, Indiana are being threatened with fines of up to $2500 if they attempt to take the ticket to court. A local attorney with the firm Roberts and Bishop was so outraged by what he saw in Marion County traffic court that he filed a class action suit ...
  6 days ago

• Make a difference

  
  Word Report — Authority: 131
  When someone experienced severe health issues, they curse themselves for not taking proper care. The same was the case with people who got affected on taking Yaz birth control pill. I am one of them, who started blaming me to rely on these tablets just to enjoy a sexual relationship. I did not know how to cure the ...
  6 days ago

• Class Action Filed Over Traffic Court Fines

  
  Bodily Injury Blog — Authority: 430
  An attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Indianapolis-area traffic court defendants who claim they received excessive punishments for seeking their day in court. According to the lawsuit, Marion County Traffic Court Judge William Young fined some defendants an additional $500 for challenging traffic ...
  6 days ago

• Subprime Suits Unlikely to Succeed, Insurer Says

  
  Bodily Injury Blog — Authority: 430
  Subprime mortgage-related lawsuits against company executives or board members have little chance of succeeding, according to a firm that provides insurance against such claims. XL Capital Ltd. CEO Michael McGavick said yesterday that it will be tough for investors to meet the legal threshold required to extract ...
  6 days ago

• Iran Whines, Indians and Government Come To Terms

  
  Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — Authority: 127
  Sarah Palin Kathleen Parker Dana Milbank Tarek Fatah A short while ago I wrote about the Iraqi authorities using a bomb detection device, the ADE 651. It was a hand-held wand, with an antenna on a swivel, and its makers also made the outrageous claims that it: "... can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, ...
  6 days ago

• Righting a Government Wrong, to the Tune of $3.4 Billion

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 524
  Yesterday, a years-long legal battle came to an end. The Obama administration announced a $3.4 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit that pitted Native Americans against the U.S. government. The winners: the Native Americans. (Shocking, I know.) The lawsuit stems back to the Dawes Act (1887), which broke up ...
  1 week ago

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