As the new year approaches, everyone seems to be doing a “top ten” list for 2008, so of course, ClassActionBlawg has to have one too. However, this “top ten” list has two improvements. First, the rankings will be decided by reader vote. Second, and even better, it goes to 11! So, here are some key class action [...]
Posts Tagged ‘securities fraud’
2008 Recap of Class Action Decisions and Trends, America Votes
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, tagged Class Action Decisions, class action reform, class action scandal, Class Action Trends, class certification, FACTA, foreign cubed, International Class Action Law, pollution class action, RICO Class Action, rule 23, scheme liability, securities fraud, tila, wage and hour class action on December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
PR Campaign in Société Générale Class Action Reflective of Trend Toward Transnational Classes
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged French law, International Class Action Law, lerach, preclusion, res judicata, securities class action, securities fraud, transnational class action on July 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
As reported this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Book blog, among other news sources, the firm of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, recently named as lead counsel in a securities class action against French bank Société Générale, has sent a group of lawyers across the pond [...]
Are Claims for Failure to Disclose “Risks” to a Company’s Patents the Next Big Thing in Securities Fraud Class Actions?
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, tagged IP litigation, patent litigation, securities class action, securities fraud on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Law.com has an interesting article today by Zusha Elinson of California legal journal The Recorder entitled “Patents: The New Class Action Frontier?” The article discusses a recent settlement in a securities fraud case against Magma Design Automation. The fraud case arose out of a declaration signed by its chief scientist in connection with an earlier patent dispute that he had developed the patents [...]

