NEW YORK — A group of retailers and trade groups has launched a last-ditch effort to stop a settlement worth at least $6 billion that Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and major banks have agreed to pay retailers for alleged fee ...

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WASHINGTON — Bank of America says it has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch at the height of the financial crisis. In the lawsuit, shareholders alleged that Bank of ...

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The Court of Special Appeals should vacate its decision striking down a significant portion of the $150 million in damages awarded to 88 Jacksonville households from Exxon Mobil Corp., according to a motion filed by the plaintiffs’ lawyers. The reason, ...

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A U.S. division of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG says it will pay $99 million to settle a class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for U.S. sales representatives. Attorney David Sanford says the case involves about 7,700 current and former sales representatives ...

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TORRANCE, Calif. — A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the high mileage it promised. But rather than joining other owners in a class-action lawsuit, she ...

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Two Baltimore lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of at least 75 families they say were poisoned while participating in a lead-paint abatement study performed by the Kennedy Krieger Institute in the mid-1990s. Thomas F. Yost Jr. of ...

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An attorney representing a class of about 3,500 Marylanders in a case against South Carolina collections agency LVNV Funding LLC said a settlement reached Friday should serve as a warning. “Going forward we think the law is very clear in ...

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Antitrust Price-fixing allegations BOTTOM LINE: Plaintiffs’ complaint alleged a sufficiently plausible case of price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act and, therefore, Defendants’ motion to dismiss was denied. CASE: Haley Paint Company v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Co., ...

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WASHINGTON — Christine Kwapnoski hasn’t done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days. But Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam’s Club stores ...

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Within hours of the announcement that Hughes Communication Inc. would be acquired by EchoStar Corp. in a $2 billion deal, no fewer than seven law firms announced they would be opening an investigation into the agreement, with a possible class-action ...

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