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February 24, 2017October 19, 2017 BRIEF
California, Class Action, Labor, Overtime, Restaurants, Top Download

SAN DIEGO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
The Cheesecake Factory faces class action by prep cooks or cooks who say the restaurant chain failed to pay overtime or to provide meal and rest breaks, among other violations of California labor law, “while openly degrading them based upon their ethnicity, national origin and/or race.”

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February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 ROBERT KAHN
Class Action, Nike, Top Download

ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A former employee of Nike Retail Services claims in a class action that the athletic shoe giant requires employees to buy and wear Nike brand clothing at work.

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Business 

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February 22, 2017February 22, 2017 BRIEF
automatic renewal, California, Class Action, Top Download

SAN DIEGO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A subscriber of Study.com claims in a class action that the website failed to obtain affirmative consent as required by California’s Automatic Renewal Law.

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Business Consumers Government National 

Class Accuses Ocwen of Illegal Interest Charges

February 16, 2017May 10, 2017 ELLEN ROBINSON
breach of contract, lending, Ocwen, Top Download

Ocwen Loan Services faces a federal class action accusing it of masking illegal prepayment penalties as post-payment interest on federally insured loans.

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Business Consumers 

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February 15, 2017August 18, 2017 BRIEF
arbitration, automatic renewal, California, Class Action, food, Top Download

ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A class accuses Blue Apron of relying on an unconscionable arbitration clause to resolve a dispute over the meal-delivery service’s billing practices under California’s Automatic Renewal Law.

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Employment Technology 

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February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 BRIEF
Class Action, data breach, hacking, phishing, privacy, Solar power, Top Download

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
Sunrun faces a class action by employees who say the rooftop solar company disclosed W-2 tax forms containing their personal information in response to a phishing scheme by hackers posing as Sunrun’s CEO.

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Business Technology 

Sunrun’s Tax-Season Data Breach Has Employees Fuming

February 13, 2017April 4, 2018 MARIA DINZEO
Cyberattacks, data breach, hacking, phishing, privacy, Solar power, Taxes, Top Download

Sunrun employees whose W-2 tax forms were sent to hackers posing as its CEO brought a class action over the rooftop solar company’s failure to protect employee information and inform them of the data breach.

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Employment 

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February 10, 2017 BRIEF
retaliation, Top Download, Whistleblower

ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A California man accuses medical-device manufacturer Edwards Lifesciences of firing and defaming him because he blew the whistle on gaps and inaccuracies in the process of vetting and reporting suppliers.

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Employment 

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February 9, 2017February 9, 2017 BRIEF
California, Class Action, Labor, Top Download

ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

A California man who worked as an hourly employee on Precision Drilling’s public works projects wants to represent a class, saying Precision failed to pay a prevailing wage, keep accurate records or provide adequate pay stubs.

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Employment 

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February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 BRIEF
banks, California, Class Action, Overtime, Top Download

VENTURA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

A branch service manager of 32 years at MUFG Union Bank has brought a class action, saying she was systematically denied meal and rest breaks as well as overtime.

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Consumers 

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February 7, 2017November 13, 2017 BRIEF
California, Class Action, coffee, Restaurants, Top Download

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
Hoping to represent a class, a California man says Peet’s Coffee and Tea offers a subscription service that fails to make required disclosures about automatic renewals.

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Business Civil Rights 

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February 3, 2017February 7, 2017 BRIEF
blind, Class Action, disability, Restaurants, Top Download

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

A blind woman claims in a class action that the parent company behind Panda Express, the Chinese fast-food chain, has not made its website accessible to screen readers, in violation of California civil rights law.

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Employment 

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February 2, 2017February 2, 2017 BRIEF
sex discrimination, Sexual harassment, Top Download, women's rights

ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A woman claims in court that she took stress leave because her manager was sexually harassing and discriminating against women, and that Johnson Controls eliminated her position to retaliate against her for complaining.

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Employment 

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February 1, 2017June 19, 2018 BRIEF
California, Class Action, computer, Hewlett Packard, Labor, Overtime, Top Download

SANTA CLARA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A class claims that HP Inc., spun off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015, failed to pay overtime to software testers and business analysts, among other violations of California labor law.

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Business Law 

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January 27, 2017October 20, 2017 BRIEF
Audit, certification, Georgia, lawyers, Real Estate, Top Download, trade secrets

FULTON COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
Saying it began developing an entity to certify firms as compliant with the best-practices framework laid out by the American Land Title Association, the bankruptcy & foreclosure division of McCurdy & Candler claims in court that Habif, Arogeti & Wynne squeezed them out of the ALTA product.

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Employment Technology 

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January 26, 2017October 27, 2017 BRIEF
banks, privacy, Top Download, Whistleblower

ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
A woman claims in court that Opus Bank fired her after she refused to hand over her personal cellphone as part of the bank’s investigation of a whistleblowing co-worker.

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Securities 

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January 25, 2017May 22, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
banks, California, Class Action, Fraud, SEC, Top Download

USDC Central District of California

Citing the resignation this week of Banc of California CEO Steven Sugarman, in the face of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, shareholder Fernando Garcia slapped the bank and three officers with a federal class action.

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Education Securities 

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January 20, 2017November 17, 2017 BRIEF
Class Action, for-profit schools, Top Download

SAN DIEGO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
In a derivative shareholder complaint against Bridgepoint Education, Randy Larson claims that the for-profit education company behind Ashford University and University of the Rockies misstated revenue as well as bad debt expense and accounts receivable.

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Business 

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January 18, 2017December 6, 2017 BARBARA LEONARD
Class Action, labeling, misrepresentation, sugar, Top Download

A California man claims in a class action that Zico Beverages misleads consumers by affixing a “no sugar added” label on bottles of 100 percent coconut water.

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Business Entertainment 

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January 17, 2017 BARBARA LEONARD
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A civil complaint against the founder and CEO of Relativity Media accuses Ryan Kavanaugh of persuading Hollywood executive Adam Fields to become a co-president in 2015 without revealing the dire state of his company’s finances.

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