The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the voluntary payment doctrine is not a defense for a violation of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. The court, in an opinion issued on Tuesday, allowed a class action against Charter Communications to proceed. ...

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FedEx Corp. must face more state class action lawsuits by contract drivers who claim they deserve benefits because the company treats them as full-time workers by mandating their clothing, hours and prices, a judge said. U.S. District Judge Robert Miller ...

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Best Buy misled consumers by falsely advertising laptops’ battery lives, a lawsuit alleges. F. Damon Barton filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court after he purchased a Dell Studio Laptop model T6400 from a Best Buy ...

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A Missouri lawsuit before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is challenging a decision that essentially prevents class actions against the federal government. Judge Christine Miller of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that the statute ...

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Charter Communications Inc., the bankrupt cable company, hasn’t paid as much as $73 million in wages, current and former employees alleged in a court filing that seeks to estimate the size of a claim for 2,800 workers. A group calling ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District says a class action lawsuit against Merck & Co. over its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx can go forward. The lawsuit in Jackson County Circuit Court sought damages for Missouri residents who purchased the popular ...

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An appeals court has reinstated a $17.3 million jury verdict that a Jackson County trial judge had thrown out after trial. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District said Tuesday that the class of about 314,000 plaintiffs had established a ...

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St. Louis-based Panera Bread Co. agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a wage-and-hour class action lawsuit filed on behalf of general managers who work in the company's California cafes. The lawsuit began as a nationwide class action suit alleging violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act and California law. It was originally filed in federal court in San Francisco, but Panera had it moved to the St. Louis federal court last summer. The suit alleged that Panera misclassified its general managers as exempt from overtime requirements but that they performed the duties of nonexempt employees.

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Merck & Co. need not defend a lawsuit in which the company is accused of defrauding millions of users of its painkiller Vioxx, a New Jersey judge ruled, dealing a “death knell” to class-action claims by consumers. Consumers who sued ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Tuesday denied an attempt to remove thousands of plaintiffs from a $36.3 million class action lawsuit settled in 2007. The appeals court said a Jackson County Circuit judge no longer had jurisdiction ...

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FedEx Corp.’s contract ground drivers, who claim the company is denying them overtime pay and treating them like full-time workers, agreed to the terms of the job when they signed up, a lawyer told a Washington state jury. “The bottom ...

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