Article: Class action against Ponderal's manufacturers (weight loss drug).

Article: A CLASS ACTION AGAINST PONDERAL'S MANUFACTURERS.
Alberta Report;  October 23, 2000 ;     405 words ... ... representative plaintiff in a class action against French drug ... Wilson took the weight-loss drug Ponderal for 12 months ... Canada to loin this class action, in which an Ontario ... for advertising the class action in the Globe and Mail ...

Article: Are We Becoming More American? Class Action ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... ancestor, the Australian class action emerged on the back ... accommodated by the class action vehicle. In the United ... Fen-Phen (a weight loss drug), heart pacemakers ... history of the Australian class action is a case study in the ...

Article: Cauley Geller Announces Class Action Lawsuit ...
PR Newswire;  June 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... announced today that a class action lawsuit has been filed ... the Company's weight loss drug AXOKINE and its effectiveness ... you can join this class action online at http ... investors and consumers in class action and corporate governance ...

Article: First weight loss drug suit against makers of ...
Lawyers USA;  May 13, 2009 ;     643 words ... ... who is seeking to certify the first class action in the U.S. against the manufacturer ... Three days after the initial recall, a class action was filed in Canada alleging that Iovate ... safety. The firm that initiated the class action, Juroviesky and Ricci LLP of Toronto ...

Article: Judicious class action reform.(COMMENTARY)
The Washington Times;  July 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... corroboration in a spiraling number of class action lawsuits in plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions ... blunderbuss, through enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2003 (CAFA). Class ... distinguishing between valid and frivolous class action claims before saddling the defendants ...

Article: Class Action
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      700+ words ...CLASS ACTION A lawsuit that allows a large number ... matter to sue or be sued as a group. The class action suit began in the equity courts of seventeenth ... The bill of peace, and later the class action, provided a convenient and efficient ...

Article: Banning class action bans: class ...
Trial;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... dollars. Without being able to file a class action, those consumers will be left with ... illustrates the central problem of bans on class action lawsuits. Unfortunately, a large and ... ever bringing, or participating in, a class action. Such bans are usually embedded in ...