Nuclear Power Antitrust Litigation
Dorrell, et al. v. Constellation Energy Corp. (D. Md.): Cohen Milstein, as co-lead class counsel, is representing nuclear power plant employees in a wage suppression class action against the country’s largest nuclear power generation companies. The workers claim that these companies implemented, monitored, and enforced this wage fixing and compensation suppression scheme through compensation comparison reports, annual meetings, and direct communications. They also allege that two consulting companies helped the companies exchange this data.
Early Decision Antitrust Litigation
D’Amico, et al. v. Consortium on Financing Higher Education, et al. (D. Mass.): Cohen Milstein represents college students and recent college graduates in a landmark antitrust class action against 32 of the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities for allegedly conspiring to use “early decision” to reduce or eliminate competition for top students. Plaintiffs argue that the colleges colluded to increase tuition rates and to decrease financial aid, thereby increasing the net price of attending these institutions and entrenching patterns of inequitable access to these elite schools.
Equal Rights Center v. Jefferson Apartment Group, et al.
Equal Rights Center v. Jefferson Apartment Group, et al. (D.C. Sup.): Cohen Milstein and Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs represent the Equal Rights Center, a Washington, D.C. civil rights and fair housing organization, in bringing a fair housing discrimination lawsuit against a large property management company and its residential luxury properties in the Shaw, NoMa, and Navy Yard neighborhoods for alleged widespread and unlawful discrimination against prospective renters on the basis of source of income, eviction records, and criminal history.
Willis Group Holdings Gender Discrimination Litigation
Hnot et al. v. Willis Group et al. (S.D.N.Y.): Cohen Milstein represented a certified class of 180 current and former female officers in the Northeast Region of Willis Group Holdings Ltd., a global insurance and reinsurance brokerage firm, in this high-profile pay and promotion gender discrimination class action. On November 19, 2007, the court granted final approval to an $8.5 million settlement, roughly $50,000 for each class member, an amount covering 100% of the lost wages plaintiffs claimed. The settlement was reached weeks before a jury trial was scheduled to start.
Amedisys FLSA Litigation
Cook et al v. Amedisys, Inc. (D. Conn.): Cohen Milstein represented approximately 2,000 home health care workers in a certified FLSA collective action and state wage and hour class action against Amedisys, Inc., a national home health care provider. Home healthcare workers alleged that Amedisys used a hybrid per-visit compensation model that violated FLSA and state wage and hour law requirements for overtime-exempt employees. On January 21, 2016, the court granted final approval to an $8 million settlement, approximately $2,400 per class member.
The Trade Desk, Inc. Securities Litigation
In re The Trade Desk, Inc. Securities Litigation (C.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein, as lead counsel, represents investors in a securities class action against The Trade Desk and certain executive officers for allegedly making repeated misstatements and omissions about the success of the company’s new ad-buying platform called Kokai, as well as insider trading based on those misstatements. As the truth was fully revealed, investors lost a staggering $42 billion in shareholder value.
BNBuilders ESOP Litigation
Schlueter v. BNBuilders, Inc., et al. (W.D. Wash.): Cohen Milstein represents an employee participant of the BNBuilders ESOP in a class action, alleging that Brad Bastian and the former owners of BNBuilders created the ESOP for the express purposes of selling 100% of their shares of the company for $206,508,990 to provide themselves liquidity while retaining ownership and control of the company in violation of ERISA.
ARCO/Murray ESOP Investigation
Our firm is investigating whether ARCO/Murray ESOP participants have suffered financial harm as a result of the ESOPs purchasing ARCO/Murray companies at inflated prices. These purchases may have caused multi-million-dollar losses. ESOP participants may have legal claims entitling them to compensation. If you worked for ARCO or an ARCO subsidiary for at least one year […]
Nielsen v. TVision Antitrust Counterclaim Litigation
Nielsen v. TVision (D. Del.): Cohen Milstein represents TVision Insights Inc., a pioneering TV data and analytics company, in an antitrust counterclaim against Nielsen for, among other things, allegedly filing baseless patent infringement lawsuits against potential competitors to assert its dominance in the TV audience measurement services in the United States.