CGL is a leading member of a consortium of law firms representing acute care hospitals across the country in cases in federal and state courts against opioid marketers, distributors and national chain pharmacies. CGL has filed complaints in In Re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation (N.D. Ohio MDL 2804) on behalf of a Florida hospital. CGL [...]
In American Small Business League vs. Department of Defense (N.D. Cal. 2018), Mr. Cuneo and Ms. Miller, representing a small business advocacy group, recently prevailed in an action brought under the Freedom of Information Act seeking public disclosure of information concerning Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation’s small business subcontracting practices. The Court, in determining that CGL’s client was entitled [...]
In re: Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2724 (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania) CGL is court-appointed Lead Counsel in this case against what “might be the biggest price-fixing scheme in U.S. history,” according to 60 Minutes / CBS News. On behalf of a class of independent pharmacies and hospitals, CGL [...]
In re: Pork Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 18-01776 (U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota) Mr. Finley and CGL serve as putative co-lead counsel on behalf of commercial and institutional indirect purchasers, as per the group’s pending motion for class certification in a lawsuit alleging the existence of a price-fixing conspiracy to artificially inflate [...]
In re Big Heart Pet Brands Litig., Case No. 4:18-cv-00861-JSW (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California). Zeiger v. WellPet LLC, Case No. 3:17-CV-04056-WHO (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California). Leppert, et al. v. Champion Petfoods USA, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:18-cv-04347 (U.S. District Court for the Northern District [...]
“FIGHTING FOR FAIR PAY” CGL and its Missouri co-counsel fought for a decade to secure fair pay for corrections officers working at Missouri state prisons. These workers, among the lowest paid in the nation, were denied pay for critical work they performed before and after every shift. CGL and its co-counsel won a $113 [...]
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 [...]