Law360 (March 14, 2019, 2:40 PM EDT) -- Sherman Joyce’s recent Law360 guest article, “Gov’t Opioid Suits Hide Attorney’s Personal Interests,” contained generalizations and oversimplifications — as well as some very creative assumptions around causes and effects. As a principal of a firm that takes pride in its track record of holding corporations accountable and [...]
Law360 (November 14, 2018, 4:27 PM EST) - By Bryan Koenig-- Kodak has hit Goldman Sachs, Glencore and others with a U.K. lawsuit accusing them of manipulating aluminum prices, echoing antitrust claims it has pursued so far without success in the United States. Several Eastman Kodak Co. units filed a claim on Nov. 7 in [...]
23 July 2015 London: Scott+Scott Attorneys At Law LLP will be opening its first European office and Belinda Hollway, joining from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, will be leading the office. Scott+Scott, with offices in New York, Connecticut, Ohio and California, has recovered billions of dollars on behalf of its clients in precedent-setting cases involving competition [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision on March 8, 2013 in a consumer fraud class action concerning Nestlé USA Inc.’s Juicy Juice Brain Development beverage health claims, finding Plaintiffs, represented by Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP (“Scott+Scott”), properly stated a claim under California’s unfair and deceptive trade practice and [...]
New York Supreme Court Judge, the Honorable Richard B. Lowe, III, recently praised Scott+Scott LLP for its representation of New York University ("NYU") in NYU's investor lawsuit against hedge fund Ariel Fund Limited, its partners and auditors, and J. Ezra Merkin who, as sole shareholder and employee of Gabriel Capital Group, had Ariel Fund invest [...]
NEW YORK, July 15, 2009 -- Capital One, N.A., one of the nation's largest banks, has been sued by a former North Fork Bank customer who alleges that, upon the acquisition of North Fork by Capital One, he and other banking customers were charged a number of improper bank fees. The action is currently pending [...]
Two class actions have been filed by Scott+Scott LLP on behalf of people that received insufficient reimbursement from their health insurance companies for out-of-network services. The individual members of the class were cheated, according to the allegations, out of full, fair and proper coverage for out-of-network medical services. Specifically, the class actions are on behalf [...]
Download Regions Financial TRO Alabama State Court Judge Houston Brown entered a temporary restraining order today, prohibiting Regions Financial Corp.'s 25 most highly paid executives for fiscal years 2006-2008 from dissipating tens of millions of dollars in incentive compensation they received based on the disastrous 2006 $10 billion AmSouth Bancorp acquisition. The Louisiana Municipal Police [...]
In one unforgettable week on Wall Street that ended on October 10, 2008, investors in the US financial market felt the full effects of the US housing market melt-down when they lost an estimated $2.4 trillion. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by 18%, bringing the total decline to 40%, roughly $8.3 trillion in shareholder [...]
Auditors can help their corporate clients by playing an important role in preventing and detecting securities fraud. Many auditors, however, fail to prevent and detect such fraud and have even been found to be complicit in certain circumstances in their clients’ fraudulent activities. As a consequence, a growing number of securities fraud lawsuits name the [...]