July 21, 2014

Google Privacy Case Moves Forward

On July 21, 2014, Judge Paul Singh Grewal of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California allowed class action claims to move forward against Google concerning its new privacy policy, which went into effect on March 1, 2012. The lawsuit alleges that the new privacy policy allows Google to commingle user data across its various products without consumers’ consent. I...
May 22, 2014

Bursor & Fisher Wins Defamation Lawsuit

  In September 2013 lawyers from Bursor & Fisher, P.A. sent a presuit demand letter to Nicole Polizzi (a/k/a “Snooki”), the celebrity spokesperson for Zantrex diet pills, notifying her of an impending class action lawsuit alleging those pills were completely ineffective for weight loss. The company that sells these fake diet pills, Basic Research LLC and Zoller Laboratories, LLC, b...
May 9, 2014

Bursor & Fisher Announces A Class Action Lawsuit Against Blue Buffalo

Fisher, P.A. announced that it filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Blue Buffalo’s pet food products. The lawsuit alleges that despite Blue Buffalo’s “TRUE BLUE PROMISE” that its pet foods do not contain chicken/poultry by-product meals, corn, rice, or artificial preservatives, scientific tests r...
April 25, 2014

Payments Sent to Avacor Class Members

On April 25, 2014, payments were mailed to class members who participated in the Avacor class action settlement. Checks in the amount of $95 were mailed to each class member as part of the initial distribution of settlement proceeds. A second distribution in the amount of $95 to each class member will be made at a later date. Scott A. Bursor filed the Avacor lawsuit in the Alameda County Superi...
April 9, 2014

Nationwide Class Certification in Hyland’s Lawsuit

On April 9, 2014, Judge George H. King of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of purchasers of six Hyland’s homeopathic cold and flu remedies for children. Judge King also appointed Bursor & Fisher as class counsel to represent the millions of people who purchased the Hyland’s products at issue in the case. ...
February 28, 2014

Payments Sent To Class Members For Haier Freezer Settlement

On February 28, 2014, checks were mailed to class members who participated in the Haier Freezer Consumer Litigation settlement. Each class member who purchased the Haier HNCM070E chest freezer received up to $325.80 under the terms of the settlement. Bursor & Fisher, P.A. filed the case in June 2011 and alleged that Haier had misrepresented the energy consumption of its HNCM070E freezer o...
February 25, 2014

Bursor & Fisher Defeats Summary Judgment Motion In Olive Oil Lawsuit

On February 25, 2014, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in Ebin v. Kangadis Food, Inc. d/b/a The Gourmet Factory, clearing the way for a jury trial later this year on claims that Kangadis packed containers of Capatriti “100% Pure Olive Oil” with an industrially processed substance ...
December 17, 2013

Bursor & Fisher Announces A Class Action Against Snooki on Behalf of Zantrex Purchasers

Bursor & Fisher, P.A. announced that it filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Zantrex against defendants Basic Research, L.L.C., Zoller Laboratories, L.L.C., Dennis W. Gay, Daniel B. Mowrey, Mitchell K. Friedlander, and Nicole E. Polizzi a/k/a Snooki. The lawsuit alleges defendants’ representations ...
December 11, 2013

Nationwide Class Certification In Olive Oil Lawsuit

On December 11, 2013, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of purchasers of Capatriti “100% Pure Olive Oil” against defendant Kangadis Food Inc. d/b/a The Gourmet Factory. The class claims relate to Kangadis’s admitted practice of packing these containers with an industrially processed sub...