ACCT Holdings, Inc. ESOP Litigation
Tripp v. ACCT Holdings, Inc. (E.D. Pa.): Cohen Milstein represents employee participants in and beneficiaries of the ACCT Holdings, Inc. ESOP in an ERISA class action against the ESOP trustee, ACCT’s board of directors, and the former owners of company for allegedly breaching their fiduciary duties and participating in prohibited transactions, including selling ACCT common stock to the ESOP at the over inflated price of $320 million without doing adequate due diligence.
In Re Nike, Inc. Securities Litigation
In Re Nike, Inc. Securities Litigation (D. Or.): Cohen Milstein represents investors in a securities class action against Nike and certain directors and officers for making misstatements and omissions about the success of a key corporate strategy called “Consumer Direct Acceleration,” which had the purpose and effect of propelling long-term sustainable financial growth for the benefit of Nike and its shareholders. However, when Nike’s alleged fraud was finally revealed Nike’s stock collapsed nearly 20%—the largest stock price drop in Nike’s history, wiping out billions of dollars in shareholder value.
Elite Wall Systems Wage Theft Litigation
Calderon, et al. v. Elite Wall Systems LLC, et al. (D. Md.): Cohen Milstein represents construction workers in a class action case brought against Elite Wall Systems and multiple general contractors that retained Elite, in a wage theft action involving numerous construction projects across Maryland and Washington, D.C. The workers claim that Elite engaged in an unlawful wage theft scheme by misclassifying them as independent contractors, failing to pay overtime wages, and failing to pay workers prevailing wages.
U.S.A. v. RegalCare False Claims Act Litigation
U.S.A. v. RegalCare False Claims Act Litigation (D. Mass.): Cohen Milstein represents the whistleblower in a FCA case against a skilled nursing management company, RegalCare, and its affiliated companies and executives, alleging that they systematically overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for years. Allegedly, during just three years, RegalCare received nearly $260 million in reimbursement for claims that were billed at the highest-level of therapy services. On February 18, 2025, the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts intervened in the case with the filing of their own complaint.
DOD EEOC Age Discrimination Class Action
Schildgen v. Hegseth (EEOC): Cohen Milstein is representing overseas contractors who were removed from their positions during or after April 2020, when the Department of Defense deemed those over the age of 65 unfit for duty because of the risk of COVID-19 in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Rehabilitation Act.
In re Capital One Financial Corporation, Affiliate Marketing Litigation
In re Capital One Financial Corporation, Affiliate Marketing Litigation (E.D. Va.): Cohen Milstein represents online creators and influencers in a consolidated consumer protection class action against Capital One. Plaintiffs claim that when a consumer makes a purchase via the Capital One Shopping browser extension, instead of crediting the creator’s affiliate marketing identify code, it automatically substitutes its own affiliate marketing identity code to receive the commission – even if the consumer made the purchase directly from the creator’s affiliate web link.
Bumble Bee Foods Longline Fishing TVPRA Litigation
Akhmad, et al. v. Bumble Bee Foods, LLC (S.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein represents four Indonesian men in a Trafficking Victims Protection Act lawsuit against Bumble Bee Foods. The men, who are from rural villages in Indonesia, applied for commercial fishmen jobs but, instead allege that they were subjected to forced labor on vessels that are part of Bumble Bee Food’s “trusted fleet” of longline tuna fishing vessels.
JPMorgan Chase Prescription Drug Litigation
Stern v. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (S.D.N.Y.): Cohen Milstein represents participants in the JPMorgan Chase Health Care Insurance Program for Active Employees and its component Medical Plan in a proposed class action. Plaintiffs allege that JPMorgan systematically mismanaged its prescription-drug benefits program by agreeing to pay its pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark, grossly inflated prescription drug prices, costing the health plan and its participants millions of dollars through higher payments for prescription drugs, higher premiums, higher out-of-pocket costs, higher deductibles, higher coinsurance, higher copays, and suppressed wages.
NAACP, et al. v. U.S. & U.S. Dept. of Education, et al.
NAACP, et al. v. U.S. and U.S. Dept. of Education, et al. (D. Md.): Cohen Milstein represents the NAACP and parents of public school students in a case brought with the National Education Association that challenges the efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to dismantle the agency, pursuant to an Executive Order issued on March 20, 2025. Plaintiffs allege that these actions constitute a de facto dismantling of the Department by executive fiat. These actions are alleged to be unconstitutional and to violate the Administrative Procedure Act.