The number of class action lawsuits is increasing both nationally and in the Carolinas, according to recent research and law firms in both states. Jim Werner, of Parker Poe in Columbia, said his firm has seen “more than four ...

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This action involves cable installers who contend they were misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees. This court’s ruling on the parties’ arbitration agreement was appealed, and plaintiffs diligently pursued their rights. Therefore, equitable tolling is appropriate, and the conditionally ...

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  Shareholders of the medical device manufacturing company Medtronic Inc. have reached a securities fraud settlement worth $43 million in a lawsuit in Minnesota federal court. The class action lawsuit was brought on behalf of shareholders against the company, which ...

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  South African gold miners and their employers have reached a class action settlement, the first of its kind in that country, thanks in part to the work of a South Carolina attorney. The settlement, if certified by the court, ...

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Where the stucco homes in question were built over a 10-year period with different building codes and industry standards, using three different types of stucco systems, individual issues predominate over the few common issues. The court denies plaintiffs’ motion to ...

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Since this case involves the disclosure of personal and potentially sensitive information (that the plaintiff-children are adopted) for which there would be no appellate remedy likely to repair any damage done by an improper disclosure, the circuit court’s certification of ...

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COLUMBIA (AP)  South Carolina’s prisons agency is subjecting inmates to cruel and unusual punishment by not testing them for a potentially fatal liver disease, according to a lawsuit filed March 14 by one of the state’s inmates. The federal lawsuit filed ...

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A Dorchester County judge has granted a request to certify a class action lawsuit against a Columbia law firm that’s accused of misrepresenting the debt that property owners owe their homeowners’ associations in violation of the Fair Debt Collections Practices ...

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Carbone v. Zen 333 Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-008-17, 24 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:16-cv-00108; D.S.C. Holding: Since tips are given as compensation for labor, they plainly fall within the scope of the phrase “all amounts at which labor is ...

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Fejzulai v. Sam’s West, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-176-16, 11 pp.) (Bruce Howe Hendricks, J.) 6:14-cv-03601; D.S.C. Holding: Although Rule 23, FRCP, can trump a state procedural rule against class actions, the federal rule does not trump a state substantive ...

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