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A jury of five men and three women heard opening arguments in the case against Faruqi & Faruqi, partner Juan Monteverde and the firm’s co-founders, siblings Nadeem and Lubna Faruqi. Plaintiff Alexandra Marchuk claims that Monteverde “quickly and forcefully” had sex with her following a December 2011 party, and that the firm tolerated Monteverde’s behavior because he was a top revenue p...

On October 29, 2014, Chief Judge Morrison C. England of the Eastern District of California appointed Bursor & Fisher interim class counsel in a consumer class action against Zicam, LLC. The lawsuit alleges that Zicam falsely represents its homeopathic cold medicines prevent, shorten, and reduce the severity and symptoms of the common cold. In selecting the firm as interim class counsel, Jud...

On October 13, 2014, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California allowed class action claims to move forward against StarKist. The case alleges that certain varieties of StarKist’s 5 oz. canned tuna fish are underfilled and thus substantially underweight. Judge Rogers previously denied StarKist’s motion to dismiss on March 25, 201...

On September 30, 2014, refunds were sent to class members as part of the $38 million settlement in In re: Pacific Bell Late Fee Litigation. The settlement was approved by Judge Judith Craddick of the Contra Costa Superior Court on October 22, 2013 and provides for cash refunds of late fees paid by more than half a million Pac Bell customers in California. Bursor & Fisher, P.A. filed the ca...

On September 18, 2014, 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 asserting alter ego/veil piercing claims against the shareholders of Kangadis Food Inc., a closely held company which declared bankruptcy in June, and a related company, Kangadis Family Management LLC. This ruling comes just three days ...

On September 15, 2014, Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Grossman of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York granted a motion to certify a nationwide class of purchasers of Capatriti 100% Pure Olive Oil, who allege they were defrauded because the product contained olive-pomace oil instead of pure olive oil. Judge Grossman also appointed Bursor & Fisher as class counsel...

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...

  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...

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...

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...