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Bursor & Fisher, P.A. is pleased to welcome Joel D. Smith, who will join the firm’s Walnut Creek office as a partner. Joel previously practiced at Crowell & Moring in San Francisco, where he represented Fortune 500 companies, privately-held businesses, and public entities in commercial litigation and nationwide class actions. While at Crowell & Moring, Joel litigated some of the firm...

On June 17, 2016, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Hearst’s motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that Hearst violated the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act by selling its subscribers’ personal information without their consent. In her ruling denying Hearst’s motion to dismiss in its entirety, Jud...

On June 16, 2016, Chief Judge Rodney Sippel of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted final approval of a $32 million class settlement in In re Blue Buffalo Company, Ltd. Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation. The settlement provides for cash payments ranging between $100 to $2,000 for consumers nationwide who purchased Blue Buffalo pet foods since 2008. ...

On March 31, 2016, Chief Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California granted a motion to certify a class of purchasers of Zicam Pre-Cold Products, clearing the way for a jury trial later this year on claims that Zicam misrepresented the effectiveness of its Pre-Cold Products. Judge England also denied Defendants’ Motion for Summary Ju...

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On October 6, 2015, Judge Paul Gardephe of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted final approval of a $38 million class settlement in Rodriguez v. CitiMortgage, Inc. The settlement provides a recovery of $116,785 plus lost equity for each military servicemember whose property was foreclosed while they were on active duty military service. In July 2011, Bu...

Bursor & Fisher is pleased to announce that Scott A. Bursor has been selected to the 2014 New York Super Lawyers list, and that Neal J. Deckant has been selected to the 2014 New York Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional ach...

Bursor & Fisher, P.A. is pleased to welcome Joshua D. Arisohn to the firm as a partner. Over the last nine years, Josh has litigated precedent-setting cases in the areas of mass torts, terrorism, and commercial disputes. He participated in the first-ever trial to take place under the Anti-Terrorism Act, a statute that affords U.S. citizens the right to assert federal claims for injuries arisin...

On June 17, 2015, Judge Jesus Bernal of the United States District Court for the Central District of California allowed nationwide class claims to move forward against Colgate-Palmolive Co. The lawsuit alleges that Colgate falsely represents that Colgate Optic White Toothpaste goes beyond surface stain removal to deeply whiten teeth in violation of a host of California consumer protection statutes...

Legal news site AboveTheLaw.com scored the first interview with a juror from the Marchuk trial. On Marchuk’s claim that Mr. Monteverde raped her in Faruqi’s offices after the firm’s 2011 holiday party, the juror stated: “We don’t believe she was raped. She willingly went up there. She said that once she went into his office, he decided to push her or throw her to the ground — but th...