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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. ...

On January 18, 2017, Justice Salvatore Modica of the Supreme Court of New York, Queens County, granted the Defendants’ motion to dismiss a retaliation claim brought under the New York State and New York City Human Rights Laws against a small business, its owner, and an employee. In his Order, Justice Modica adopted the Defendants’ argument that “Plaintiff failed to make allegations that s...

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...

Bursor & Fisher is pleased to announce that Scott A. Bursor has been selected to the 2015 New York Super Lawyers list, and that Joshua D. Arisohn and Neal J. Deckant have been selected to the 2015 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 recogniti...

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...

On August 26, 2016, Chief Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California preliminarily approved a proposed class settlement in In re NVIDIA GTX 970 Graphics Chip Litigation. The case alleges that Defendants sold GeForce GTX 970 graphics processing units (“GTX 970 GPU’s”) to consumers based on inaccurate or misleading information regarding ...

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...