Doe v. St. Anselm’s Abbey School, Inc.
Cohen Milstein, with co-counsel from Public Justice and Correia & Puth, represents John Doe, a former student at St. Anselm’s Abbey School, as well as his mother, Jane Doe. John and Jane Doe claim that St. Anselm’s failed to take meaningful action to address relentless harassment, to which John Doe was subjected because of his […]
Block Inc. Securities Fraud Litigation
Gonsalves v. Block, Inc., et al. (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein, as co-lead counsel, represents investors in a putative securities class action against Block, Inc., a financial technology company best known for its Square and Cash App platforms. Investors allege that Block and Block’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, and CFO/COO, Amrita Ahuja, misled investors about the strength of Block’s compliance protocols and the reliability of its reported user metrics for the Cash App platform. As investors came to realize that Cash App’s reported growth was illusory, Block’s stock price plummeted more than 80%, erasing billions of dollars in market value.
Apple Inc. iOS App Antitrust Litigation
Proton AG v. Apple, Inc. (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein is representing Proton AG, a global leader in privacy focused software, in a putative antitrust class action against Apple Inc. for allegedly monopolizing the iOS app distribution and iOS app payment processing markets. Proton claims that Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies, has eliminated competition and extracted supracompetitive profits from app developers through a web of exclusionary conduct.
In re Valve Antitrust Litigation
In re Valve Antitrust Litigation (W.D. Wash.): Cohen Milstein, as Interim Lead Class Counsel, is representing consumers who purchased personal computer video games from third-party game publishers via Valve, Inc’s online retail platform Steam. The consumers allege Valve has abused and unlawfully maintained its decades-long dominant position in the PC game platform market, forcing consumers to pay higher prices for fewer and lower-quality games – all in violation of federal and state antitrust laws.
In re SanDisk Securities Litigation
In re: SanDisk LLC Securities Litigation (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein represented investors in this certified securities class action against SanDisk, and the company’s former CEO and CFO. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendants made false and misleading statements regarding SanDisk’s supposed success integrating a key corporate acquisition for its all-important enterprise solid-state drive business and the strength of SanDisk’s enterprise sales team and strategy, among other things. A host of undisclosed problems with the integration and the enterprise business, however, caused SanDisk’s enterprise revenue to fall, including revenue derived from the acquisition, and to badly miss internal sales forecasts. On October 23, 2019, the court granted final approval of a $50 million settlement.
In re Orthofix Medical, Inc. Securities Litigation
In re Orthofix Medical, Inc. Securities Litigation (E.D. Tex.): Cohen Milstein, as sole Lead Counsel, represents investors in a securities fraud class action against Orthofix Medical Inc. and SeaSpine Holdings Corporation and certain senior executives for entering a merger without conducting thorough due diligence. The newly appointed CEO, CFO, and CLO of Orthofix, formerly with SeaSpine, had allegedly fostered a hostile and misogynistic workplace at SeaSpine and were defendants in a California state court gender discrimination class action, which settled in 2021 — information that was publicly available. When the market learned that Orthofix terminated the executives, the stock plummeted by more than 30%.
In re Parmalat Securities Litigation
In re Parmalat Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.): Cohen Milstein, as co-lead counsel, represented European institutional investors in this high-profile securities fraud class action. Plaintiffs claimed that Parmalat, the company’s executives, accountants, and outside auditors, Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu, Deloitte S.p.A., Deloitte & Touche – U.S., and Grant Thornton, S.p.A., helped facilitate a massive Ponzi scheme – one of the largest corporate frauds in history. Cohen Milstein successfully negotiated several settlements totaling over $90 million. The court remarked that plaintiffs’ counsel “did a wonderful job [. . .] I wish I had counsel this good in front of me in every case.”
Mann v. Caron of Florida, Inc.
Mann v. Caron of Florida (Palm Beach Cnty. Circ. Crt., 15th Circ.): Cohen Milstein represented Denise and Francis Mann, the parents of Nathan Mann, in a wrongful death and medical negligence lawsuit, centering on the events that led to Nathan’s death. A high-achieving student and talented cellist, Nathan was fatally struck by a train after walking away from the Caron Renaissance facility in 2020. On August 27, 2025, a confidential settlement was reached.
United States ex. rel. Detroit Integrity Partners v. Detroit Nursing Center, LLC, et al.
United States ex. rel. Detroit Integrity Partners v. Detroit Nursing Center, LLC, et al. (E.D. Mich.): Cohen Milstein represented Detroit Integrity Partners, a whistleblower, who brought a False Claims Act and Michigan Medicaid False Claim Act qui tam lawsuit against the owners and operators of six Detroit area nursing homes. The whistleblower alleged that the defendants defrauded the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Specifically, the nursing homes were severely understaffed and provided grossly substandard care to residents and submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for payment for the noncompliant services. On June 17, 2025, the United States and Michigan reached a $4.5 million settlement with the defendants.