Jan Harrison, et al. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, et al., Case No. 5:13-cv-01180-BLF (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California). The $3.5 million settlement of this lawsuit was finally approved by Judge Beth Labson Freeman on October 22, 2018. It alleged that United States producers of titanium dioxide [...]
We served as co-lead counsel in numerous class actions on behalf of individuals who were strip searched in county jails after being arrested for minor crimes. These cases included invasions of privacy that the courts then regarded as illegal. Significantly, the Supreme Court interpreted the Constitution's Fourth Amendment more narrowly than nearly all federal appellate [...]
CGL brought a class action lawsuit against Congoleum Corporation in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit alleged that the Defendant’s floor tiles (“DuraCeramic”), which are used in residential and commercial floor applications, prematurely fail and that the Defendant did not honor its warranties. On September 18, 2015, the [...]
In Buttonwood Tree Value Partners, LP, et al. v. Jack A. Sweeney, et al., Civil Action No. 10-cv-00537-CJC-MLG (U.S. District Court for the Central District of California), CGL was appointed co-lead counsel to represent investors who filed a securities fraud class action against certain former officers and directors (the “Defendants”) of First Regional Bancorp (“FRB”), [...]
In 2008, CGL was counsel in a case in which United Healthcare paid $350 million to a settlement class of subscribers and providers for inadequate healthcare reimbursements and agreed to change its calculation techniques. In 2011, after extensive hearings, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York approved that settlement, which [...]
In John True v. American Honda Motor Co., Plaintiffs challenged claims of fuel efficiency in the Honda Civic Hybrid, as well as a software update that further degraded the advertised fuel efficiency performance of the vehicles. After several years of contentious litigation, the case settled for a package of settlement benefits that the reviewing Judge [...]
In re Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation, MDL 2670 (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California) CGL has been appointed lead counsel on behalf of a class of commercial food preparers in a lawsuit alleging the existence of a price-fixing conspiracy to artificially inflate prices for packaged tuna products. Together, Jonathan Cuneo, Joel [...]
Jonathan W. Cuneo received the American Antitrust Institute’s Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement at the AAI’s Annual Conference. The AAI lauded Mr. Cuneo's efforts to defend the antitrust laws even when there existed immense external pressure to weaken them in the 1980s, stating, “Mr. Cuneo was the only person outside of the government to be [...]
United States District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo denied Defendant Samsung Electronics America, Inc.'s motion to compel arbitration, dismiss the class claims, and stay the proceeding in Noble v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. in the District of New Jersey.
Subaru of America, Inc. recalls 82,661 Tribecas for the dangerous hood defect that is the subject of CGL's class action lawsuit.