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| In 2007, Lieff Cabraser attorneys,
with local co-counsel, obtained a $50
million verdict against Daimler Chrysler in a wrongful death
action. Our firm has participated in over forty-two $100 million-plus
settlements and verdicts, including eleven
cases in excess of $1 billion. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a fifty-plus attorney
law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and
Nashville. Since 1972, Lieff Cabraser has successfully represented plaintiffs
in class actions, group and individual cases in the fields of securities and
investment fraud, personal injury and mass torts, environmental
and toxic exposure, non-personal injury product defect,
antitrust, consumer protection, employment discrimination
and unfair employment practices, aviation disasters and
civil and human rights. Our comprehensive and diverse practice
is unique among law firms that represent only plaintiffs. |
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following is a partial list of our current cases: |
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| Antitrust |
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| Bank
ATM Fees |
We represent
bank customers in a class action lawsuit against
several of the nation's largest banks and automatic
teller machine (ATM) network companies alleging
that they conspired to double-charge ATM customers
when they withdraw funds from ATMs not owned
by the users' bank in violation of antitrust
laws.
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| Carbon
Brushes and Collectors |
We represent
the City and County of San Francisco in a lawsuit
against carbon brush and collectors manufacturers
for allegedly conspiring to sell these products
to consumers at inflated, agreed-upon prices.
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| City of Oakland Government Investment Contracts Price-Fixing |
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is serving as co-counsel for the City of Oakland in a federal antitrust lawsuit alleging that financial companies and brokers agreed among themselves to give cities artificially low bids for Guaranteed Investment Contracts.
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| Comdata
Class Action |
We represent
truck service clients in an antitrust class action
lawsuit against Comdata, the owner of a monopoly
credit card system used by practically every
truck stop in the U.S. Plaintiffs allege that
Comdata has used its market dominance to impair
competition and has charged independent truck
stops millions of dollars in excessive fees.
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| De
Beers Antitrust Class Action |
Plaintiffs
alleged that De Beers, a privately held group
of foreign-based companies, had monopolized the
international diamond business through its control
of mines and a web of agreements with diamond
suppliers in other countries.
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| International
Airfare Price Fixing |
International
air passengers who purchased airfare from 2004
to the present charge that American Airlines,
British Airways, United Airlines, and Virgin
Atlantic Airways conspired to raise passenger
fares and fix fuel surcharges.
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| Neurontin
Price Inflation |
We represent
patients prescribed Neurontin, a drug widely
prescribed to treat epilepsy, who charge its
manufacturers have illegally extended the patent
on the drug, depriving consumers from purchasing
cheaper, generic versions.
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| TFT
LCD Antitrust Class Action |
The complaint charges that the
world’s leading manufacturers of flat-panel
TV screens and other products incorporating liquid
crystal displays (LCDs) engaged in collusive
behavior that inflated the prices of their products.
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Environmental
and Toxic
Exposures |
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| Exxon
Valdez Disaster |
With co-counsel,
Lieff Cabraser represents 32,000 fishermen, Alaska
natives, landowners and others affected by the
11 million gallons of oil that poured into Prince
William Sound after the grounding of the Exxon
Valdez in 1989.
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| Civil & International
Rights |
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| Braceros
Workers |
Plaintiffs are workers
(known as "Braceros") from Mexico who
came to work in U.S. farms and rail yards from
1942 to 1949 and seek to recover wages withheld
for placement in savings accounts that were never
returned to them.
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| Global
Blood Factor Litigation |
On behalf of hemophiliacs,
or their families, who became infected with HIV
and/or Hepatitis C ("HCV") from contaminated
blood products, Lieff Cabraser has filed a lawsuit
in U.S. District Court against the American companies
that manufactured and exported the blood products.
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| Metropolitan
Transportation Commission Race Discrimination |
Lieff Cabraser represents
a coalition of organizations and individuals
charging that the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission discriminates against poor transit
riders of color who use or depend on AC Transit
bus service.
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| Talisman Energy Human
Rights Litigation |
Lieff
Cabraser represents
the Presbyterian Church of Sudan and current
and former residents of southern Sudan who
allege that that they were victims of genocide,
crimes against humanity and other violations
of international law by Talisman Energy, Inc.
and the Sudanese government.
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Products
Liability -
Personal Injuries |
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| AMO
Contact Lens Contamination |
Lieff
Cabraser is representing individuals who used
AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose contact
lens solution and have also been formally diagnosed
with Acanthamoeba keratitis.
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| Bausch & Lomb
ReNu MoistureLoc Contact Lens Solution Injuries |
We represent
patients that have developed serious injuries
including vision loss, following the use
of Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc
contact lens solution.
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| Blood
Factor Litigation |
We are
working on behalf of hemophiliacs inside and
outside the U.S. to bring potential claims in
U.S. courts against the manufacturers of blood
factor concentrate for allegedly repeatedly exposing
hemophiliacs to HIV and HCV.
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| Carbon
Monoxide Poisoning |
Learn
about dangers of carbon monoxide and how to protect
your family. Persons injured by carbon monoxide
may submit their claim for review.
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| Ford
Cruise Control Switch Fires |
Lieff
Cabraser is representing owners of Ford
vehicles who lost their vehicle due to fire
and suffered additional significant property
damage (such as the destruction of their house)
or were injured in the fire.
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| Medtronic Defibrillator Heart Leads |
Lieff
Cabraser's personal injury attorneys filed a
class action lawsuit on behalf of persons seriously
injured from Medtronic's allegedly defective
defibrillator heart leads.
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| Peter
Pan Peanut Butter Salmonella Contamination |
We represent
consumers seriously injured by peanut butter
contaminated with Salmonella Tennessee bacteria.
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| Popcorn
Workers Lung |
We are
investigating claims by workers in the popcorn
and snack industries who have developed lung
injuries due to exposure to artificial butter
flavoring fumes in their factories.
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| Rollover
Accidents |
We represent
families of loved ones who died in rollover accidents
involving the Yamaha
Rhino, Ford
Explorer SUV and 15
Passenger Vans, along with plaintiffs in "park to reverse" cases.
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| Silicone
Gel Breast Implants |
Since
1992, we have played a leading role representing
women who received silicone gel breast implants,
and suffered injuries due to defects in the design,
manufacture and marketing of these products.
We represent these claims on a classwide and
individual basis.
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| Trasylol
Blood Clotting Drug Injuries |
We are
investigating claims that the blood clotting
drug Trasylol caused thousands of patient deaths
during heart surgeries.
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| Yamaha
Rhino Accidents |
Lieff
Cabraser represents
persons across America who suffered serious injuries
in Yamaha Rhino side-by-side accidents.
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Product
Liability - Defective
Consumer & Homeowner
Products |
| Carrier
Home Furnaces Class Actions |
Homeowners
in Washington, Wisconsin and Ontario have filed
separate class action lawsuits against Carrier
Corporation alleging that beginning in the mid-1980s,
Carrier started manufacturing its high-end furnaces
out of inferior material that corrodes and prematurely
fails, without disclosing that fact to consumers. More...
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| Dell
Inspiron Notebooks Class Action |
In October
2006, customers who purchased Dell Inspiron 1100,
1150, 5100 and 5160 notebooks filed a class action
lawsuit against Dell, Inc. alleging misconduct
in connection with the design, manufacture, warranting,
advertising and selling of these computers. Learn
more...
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| Menu
Foods, Inc. Pet Food Recall |
Pet owners
have filed a class action lawsuit against Menu
Foods, Inc., maker of several brands of pet food.
The plaintiffs allege that Menu Foods is responsible
for the injuries and deaths of their pets from
eating contaminated products.
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| Viplex
4000 Windows Complaints and Lawsuit |
Lieff
Cabraser has filed suit on behalf of consumers
and homeowners in California who presently own
homes equipped with Viplex 4000 windows. The
consumers charge that defendants have misrepresented
the energy efficiency and overstated the "safety" and "security" of
the Viplex 4000 windows,
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| Consumer
Protection |
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| Ameriquest
Predatory Lending |
Lieff
Cabraser serves as Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel
for a certified class of Minnesota property owners
who obtained mortgage loans from Ameriquest Mortgage
Company.
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| Catholic
Healthcare West Uninsured Pricing Class Action |
A settlement
has been reached by the parties over allegations
that CHW charged uninsured patients excessive
and unfair prices for medical treatment and services
given at CHW-affiliated hospitals, and engaged
in aggressive and unfair collections practices.
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| Cingular
Class Action |
We represent
a Cingular Wireless customer in a nationwide
class action lawsuit alleging that Cingular unilaterally
changed its longstanding billing practices in
2005 and began charging its customers for making
calls from their mobile phones to their own mobile
phone numbers.
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| Federated
Vendors Chargebacks Class Action |
With co-counsel,
Lieff Cabraser represents vendors who sold goods
to the retail divisions of Federated, such as
Macy's and Bloomingdales. The vendors allege
that the defendants had a standard policy and
practice of deducting improper chargebacks from
monies owed to the vendors and that defendants
took improper discounts.
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| Intuit
QuickBooks Data Destruction |
With
co-counsel, we represent businesses that lost
their QuickBooks data and other files due to
a faulty software update sent by Intuit in December
2007.
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| Litton
Loan Servicing Class Action |
We have
filed a class action complaint charging the company
with unlawful and deceptive business practices
in its “servicing” of
residential mortgage loans nationwide.
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| Natural
Hazard Disclosure Statement Real Estate Fees |
Lieff
Cabraser represents homeowners in suits against
Property I.D. and major real estate brokerage
companies in California for alleged illegal kickbacks.
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| Nextel
Wireless Billing |
We represent
a subscriber to Nextel who alleges that charge
the company has unilaterally and without adequate
notice changed the terms of service agreements
to the detriment of Nextel subscribers.
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| NSA
Wiretapping & Privacy Violations |
Nationwide
class action lawsuit alleges AT&T violated
federal law in providing the NSA with its customers'
call-detail records and that plaintiff and the
class are entitled to damages.
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| Ocwen
Loan Servicing |
We represent
homeowners in California with loans serviced
by Ocwen Federal Bank, FSB. Plaintiffs allege
that Ocwen has engaged in a scheme of deceptive
business practices in its "servicing" of
residential mortgage loans in California.
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| Scripps
Uninsured Patients Class Action |
We represent uninsured
patients in a class action lawsuit against the
Scripps Health hospital system for overcharging. A
settlement has been reached.
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| Weekend
Warrior Trailers Consumer Protection Lawsuit |
We represent
California residents who purchased allegedly
defective new or used 1999-2005 model year FS
2600 or FS 3000 model trailers manufactured by
Weekend Warrior Trailers, Inc. with Zieman Manufacturing
Company frames.
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| Employment
Law |
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| A&P
Supermarkets Overtime Wages |
We represent
employees in a class action lawsuit against The
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.,
which operates A&P, The Food Emporium and
Waldbaum's. The plaintiffs charge that the chains
fail to pay overtime wages and delete hours actually
worked from time records.
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| Best
Buy Race & Gender Discrimination |
Lieff
Cabraser represents current and former employees
of Best Buy in a federal class action civil rights
lawsuit against the multi-billion dollar national
electronics chain. The lawsuit charges Best Buy
with violating federal and state laws against
race and sex discrimination in employment.
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| Cadence
Design Systems Overtime Wages |
Lieff
Cabraser represents current and former employees
of Cadence in a suit charging that Cadence unlawfully
deprives workers of overtime pay.
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| Caterpillar
Retirees Healthcare Benefits |
We represent
retirees of Caterpillar, Inc. in a class action
to preserve promised employee health care benefits.
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| Costco
Gender Discrimination |
Lieff
Cabraser and co-counsel represent plaintiffs
in a nationwide employment discrimination class
action lawsuit filed against Costco Wholesale
Corporation alleging that Costco operates a "glass
ceiling" at the store-management level which
precludes women from obtaining promotion to assistant
manager and general manager positions.
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| Smith
Barney Gender Discrimination |
Lieff
Cabraser and co-counsel represent female financial
consultants in a national class action lawsuit
charging sex discrimination at Smith Barney,
the retail brokerage arm of Citigroup. The
lawsuit charges that Smith Barney discriminates
against its female financial consultants in
compensation, account distribution, sales support,
and other terms and conditions of employment
throughout the company.
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| Tata
Workers Tax Refund Practices |
Lieff
Cabraser represents former and current employees
of Tata in a suit that charges that Tata has
unjustly enriched itself by requiring all of
its non-U.S.-citizen employees to endorse and
sign over their federal and state tax refund
checks to Tata.
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| Wal-Mart
Employment Practices |
Lieff
Cabraser represents present and former Wal-Mart
Stores employees in a class action lawsuit alleging
that Wal-Mart systematically avoided paying employees
their full earned wages.
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| Securities & Investment
Fraud |
| Broadcom
& Stock Options Backdating |
Lieff
Cabraser serves as court-appointed lead counsel
in a stockholders' derivative action against
the Board of Directors of Broadcom.
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| Brooks
Automation Securities Litigation |
Lieff
Cabraser serves as Court-Appointed Lead Counsel
in a class action lawsuit
on behalf of all persons who purchased securities
of Brooks Automation between July 25, 2001 and
May 22, 2006. Plaintiff charges that
Brooks Automation violated federal securities
laws by participating in a scheme to backdate
Brooks Automation stock options over a six year
period.
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| In re
Cablevision Systems Corp. Shareholder Derivative
Litigation |
Lieff
Cabraser serves as Co-Lead Counsel in a stockholders’ derivative
action against the board of directors of Cablevision.
The suit alleges defendants intentionally manipulated
their stock option grant dates between 1997 and
2002 in order to enrich themselves at the expense
of Cableivision and Cablevision shareholders.
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| Qwest
Communications Securities Litigation |
Lieff
Cabraser represents numerous Funds in individual
securities fraud actions filed in federal court
against Qwest Communications International, Inc.
Defendants are charged with significantly overstating
Qwest's publicly-reported growth, revenues, earnings,
and earnings per share from 1999 through 2002.
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| Deutsche
Bank/Alex. Brown Investor Fraud Lawsuit |
On behalf
of investors in two investment funds controlled,
managed and operated by Deutsche Bank and advised
by DC Investment Partners, Lieff Cabraser filed
lawsuits for alleged fraudulent conduct that
resulted in an aggregate loss of hundreds of
millions of dollars.
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| Peregrine
Investors Lawsuit |
| Lieff
Cabraser represents Lawrence L. Garlick, the
co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer
of Remedy Corporation and 24 other former senior
executives and directors of Remedy Corporation
in a private (non-class) securities fraud lawsuit
against Stephen P. Gardner, the former Chief
Executive Officer of Peregrine Systems, Inc.,
other former executive officers of Peregrine
and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a fifty-plus
attorney law firm that has represented plaintiffs nationwide
since 1972. We have offices in San Francisco, New York
and Nashville. We represent plaintiffs in class and
group actions and in individual lawsuits in cases involving
substantial losses. For the last five years, the National
Law Journal has selected Lieff
Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in
the nation. |
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