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On September 7, 2017, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment against Hearst for violating the Michigan Preservation of Personal Privacy Act by disclosing Plaintiff’s subscription information without her consent. Bursor & Fisher filed this action in 2015 on behalf of a class of Michiga...

On September 6, 2017, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of persons who received prerecorded messages and robocalls from Rash Curtis, a debt collector. Plaintiffs allege these calls violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Judge Gonzalez Rogers also appointed Bursor & Fish...

On August 23, 2017, Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted final approval to the $8.25 million class action settlement in Retta v. Millennium Products, Inc. Bursor & Fisher, P.A. filed the lawsuit in 2015 alleging that Millennium misrepresented the alcohol, sugar and antioxidant content of its kombucha tea products. The ...

On August 14, 2017, Judge Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted final approval to the class action settlement in Forcellati v. Hyland’s, Inc. Bursor & Fisher, P.A. filed the lawsuit in 2012 alleging that Hyland’s misrepresented the efficacy of six of its homeopathic cold and flu medicines for children. The settlement followed mor...

On July 7, 2017, Judge William H. Pauley III of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of purchasers of Bell + Howell Ultrasonic Pest Repellers. Judge Pauley also appointed Bursor & Fisher, P.A. as class counsel to represent the millions of Repeller purchasers. The case involves claims that Bell + Howell Ultrason...

approval to the class action settlement in Dei Rossi v. Whirlpool. Bursor & Fisher filed the lawsuit in 2012, alleging that Whirlpool misrepresented two of its refrigerators as Energy Star qualified when they were not. The settlement followed nearly five years of litigation and allowed each class member to receive a $55 cash payment to recoup the excess energy costs of their KitchenAid ref...

On April 11, 2017, the first round of payments were sent to class members as part of the $4.5 million settlement in In re NVIDIA GTX 970 Graphics Chip Litigation. The settlement was approved by Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on December 7, 2016, and provides for cash payments of $30 for each NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics chip purchas...

On January 27, 2017, Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the Southern District of New York appointed Bursor & Fisher, P.A. as interim class counsel in In re Welspun Litigation, a nationwide consumer class action against Welspun. The lawsuit alleges that Welspun falsely represented its linen products as “100% Egyptian Cotton,” when in fact these products are not made from 100% Egyptian Cotton. ...

Yesterday Judge Winifred Smith of the Superior Court of California granted final approval to a $79 million settlement in Ayyad v. Sprint Spectrum, bringing an end to 13 years of litigation, including two jury trials and more than a dozen appeals. After a month-long trial in 2008, the class represented by Bursor & Fisher prevailed on all of their claims challenging Sprint’s termination fe...

On September 29, 2016, Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of a $12 million class settlement in Hendricks v. StarKist Co. The lawsuit alleged that StarKist had underfilled certain 5-ounce cans of StarKist tuna. The settlement resulted in the nationwide submission of more than 2.4 million claims, the la...