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1 day ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
Business groups want the justices to put a stop to overly broad class actions that include people without injuries. But a group of scholars have identified a procedural flaw that could derail a ruling in the case currently set to be heard this month. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider a case that business groups are hoping will stem the tide of class actions they say are swamping corporate defendants in recent years.
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1 day ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
A Maryland federal judge granted final approval Thursday to settlements worth nearly $400 million for poultry processing workers who claimed that the nation’s biggest chicken producers conspired to suppress their wages. In an order, U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher of the District of Maryland said there were no objections to the various settlement agreements, though more than 3,300 exclusion requests had been submitted by class members.
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3 days ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
InnovAge Holding Corp. and a class of stockholders have agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve claims that the senior-health care company made misleading statements in an initial public offering that later caused stock prices to tank after a government audit exposed the falsehoods.
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3 days ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
Capital One Financial Corp. cannot ditch all of a proposed class action alleging its coupon-search browser extension steals commissions from social media creators who drive customers to affiliated merchants, a Virginia federal judge ruled, saying the plaintiffs plausibly alleged Capital One knew it was diverting their “rightfully earned” commissions. In an order Monday, U.S. District Judge Anthony J.
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1 week ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
Benjamin D. Brown of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped cement his reputation as a respected thought leader in his field last year when he wrapped up multiple career-defining cases, including a landmark $375 million settlement in a wage suppression class action brought against Ultimate Fighting Championship, earning him a place among Law360’s 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.
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1 week ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
At least some fired feds can pursue their case through a class action, administrative judge says. At least one agency’s staff impacted by the mass dismissals of probationary workers can pursue their reinstatements as a class, the panel that hears federal employees’ challenges to firings has for the first time ruled, creating a new path for sweeping reversals of those terminations.
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2 weeks ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
The class certification brings fired probationary employees one step closer to potential reinstatement and sets back the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the federal workforceWASHINGTON, D.C. – In what is believed to be a first since the Trump administration issued government-wide layoffs, the Merit Systems Protections Board (MSPB) today granted class certification to fired probationary employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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2 weeks ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
The Lawdragon Legends are our most prestigious group of lawyers, having been honored in our flagship Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America over 10 times. So, we always take notice when there’s a concentration of several Legends in one firm, especially a small or mid-sized one. That’s the case with the four Legends at Washington, D.C.-based Cohen Milstein.
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3 weeks ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
A Massachusetts federal judge has granted final approval to National Student Clearinghouse’s proposed $9.95 million settlement resolving allegations that the student data company’s lax security practices exposed Social Security numbers and personal information in the hack of Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer tool. U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs certified a nationwide settlement class of all individuals whose Social Security number was exposed in the 2023 incident.
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3 weeks ago | 
cohenmilstein.com | Kate FitzGerald
“Nobody likes the plaintiff’s lawyer until they need a plaintiff’s lawyer,” Leopold said. “When it comes to important cases, socially just cases, I think people realize the importance of what we do.”After five years of litigation over the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, Leopold co-led a legal team that in November 2021 obtained a $626.25 million settlement for residents and businesses.
