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On behalf of small business clients, Girard Sharp on May 27 filed the first class action lawsuit against Google for acquiring and maintaining a monopoly in digital advertising markets.

Plaintiffs allege that Google engages in illegal monopolistic behavior in the ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit against energy companies Vitol Inc., SK Energy Americas, Inc., and SK Trading Co., Ltd. for conspiring to increase and maintain gasoline prices at supra-competitive levels. Plaintiffs seek to represent all people in ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit against TikTok following recent reports that the company may have violated the privacy rights of those who use the app, infringing the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Access a copy of the filing here.

As reported in Law360, end-payors of the prescription drug Restasis won class certification in pending antitrust litigation in Brooklyn federal court. The court also appointed Girard Sharp to serve as co-lead class counsel.

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Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit charging British Airways with unlawfully denying refunds to customers whose flights were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Access a copy of the complaint here.

Adam Polk has been appointed to serve as Co-Lead Counsel in a class action lawsuit against Subaru for an alleged battery drain defect in certain Subaru vehicles.

Access a copy of the leadership order, entered on May 5, 2020 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider.

The ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action lawsuit following reports that certain Subaru vehicles may have a defective battery system and that Subaru, though aware of this defect, has been unable or unwilling to eliminate it. Access a copy of the filing here.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer today denied Intuit’s attempt to force three consumer plaintiffs to drop their class action claims against Intuit and proceed individually in private arbitration.

Girard Sharp is co-lead counsel for the consumer plaintiffs ...

The American Law Institute on March 10 recognized Girard Sharp partner Jordan Elias for his new book chapter on the Supreme Court’s class action jurisprudence.

The chapter appears in the American Bar Association’s authoritative treatise Survey of Class Action ...

Partner Adam Polk has been appointed to serve on the Executive Committee in the In re: Allergan BIOCELL Textured Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation.

The lawsuit follows a worldwide recall of BIOCELL products following reports that Allergan’s BIOCELL ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that Partner Dan Girard and Associate Elizabeth Kramer have been recognized for their work by The Best Lawyers in America in its 2020 rankings.

Dan and Elizabeth were both recognized by Best Lawyers for Mass Tort Litigation / Class ...

Girard Sharp partner Jordan Elias on February 4, 2020 filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Association for Justice in a pending Eleventh Circuit appeal. The brief addresses the class action doctrine known as ascertainability and is available here.

The National Law Journal and ALM Media honored partner Dena Sharp at the 2020 Elite Trial Lawyer awards gala, which took place at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach on Monday, January 20.

Dena was recognized as an “Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar,” one of nine female ...

On January 6, 2020, a federal judge in Los Angeles said that he was inclined to grant final approval of the landmark $215 million class action settlement that recognizes all survivors of former student health center gynecologist George Tyndall, and establishes ...

Dena Sharp has been appointed to serve as Co-Lead Counsel in the JUUL MDL.

The litigation against JUUL alleges in part that the company sold and marketed its nicotine-delivery pods in a manner designed to attract minors, that JUUL’s marketing misrepresents or omits ...

A federal judge has granted final approval of a $7.25 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google regarding its Pixel smartphones. The plaintiffs alleged that Pixels manufactured before January 4, 2017 have a defect that leads to microphone or speaker ...

A federal judge has granted final approval of a $17.85 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo concerning automated calls and texts. Access a copy of the order here.

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @GirardSharp for settlement ...

After hearing oral argument on Apple’s motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila rejected Apple’s second attempt to end a class action brought by individuals who purchased MacBook laptops equipped with a butterfly mechanism keyboard.

Plaintiffs ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a finalist by ALM Media and National Trial Lawyers in several categories of the 2020 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards, and Dena Sharp has been honored as an “Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” for the second ...

A federal judge has granted final approval of a $9.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google concerning its Nexus 6P smartphones.

Dena Sharp has been appointed to the interim leadership team by a federal judge in the JUUL MDL. Follow us on Twitter @GirardSharp for future case-related updates. 

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that it has earned national Tier 1 rankings in Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions ‒ Plaintiffs and has been named to the U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Firms” list for the seventh year in a row.

The firm also earned a regional ...

Girard Sharp is pleased to announce that firm partner Dena Sharp has been selected as one of six new Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council. Lawyer Representatives are responsible for fostering open communications between judges and attorneys ...

Girard Sharp attorneys Dena Sharp and Scott Grzenczyk will be presenting at the 13th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference and Antitrust Enforcement Awards Dinner, a yearly event organized by the American Antitrust Institute (AAI). The event ...

Girard Sharp attorney Angelica Ornelas presented at the Electronic Discovery Seminar this week, an event hosted by the California Employment Lawyers Association. The event took place Thursday, October 17, at the Doubletree Hilton in San Jose.

Girard Sharp has filed a class action complaint charging JUUL with unlawfully marketing dangerous e-cigarettes and manipulating nicotine delivery to maximize addiction, causing a public health crisis and harming tens of thousands of minors and adults across the ...

Girard Sharp partner Adam Polk will be presenting at the 23^rd Annual National Institute on Class Actions, a yearly conference organized by the American Bar Association (ABA). The event will take place October 17-18 at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

Adam is slated to ...

On August 29, U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton largely denied LG’s attempt to dismiss a consumer protection lawsuit brought against the company by plaintiffs represented by Girard Sharp.

Plaintiffs allege that LG sold and continues to sell refrigerators ...

Girard Sharp has jointly filed a class action complaint asserting that DXC Technology Corporation violated federal law by making false and misleading statements and omissions about the benefits from its “strategic roadmap” for conducting business following ...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer on August 19 appointed Daniel C. Girard of Girard Sharp to serve as co-lead counsel alongside Norman E. Siegel of Stueve Siegel Hanson in a class action charging that Intuit Inc., maker of TurboTax, deliberately impeded access to ...

Girard Sharp has filed a class action complaint asserting a global conspiracy among manufacturers to fix prices of and allocate market shares for a key hard disk drive (HDD) component. If you purchased a hard disk drive in the United States between May 2008 through ...

The settlement website is now up and can be accessed here. The deadline to submit a claim is October 7, 2019. Information about how to submit a claim and answers to frequently asked questions can be found on the website. Follow us @GirardSharp for updates.

Girard Sharp attorney Elizabeth A. Kramer is quoted in this article regarding the firm's recently filed lawsuit against UCLA and Dr. James Heaps. Heaps has been charged with sexual battery and exploitation of patients while working as a UCLA gynecologist.

Girard Sharp has jointly filed a class action lawsuit with Gibbs Law Group following recent reports that CannTrust Holdings may have operated a cannabis facility without proper licensure. On news of the licensing issues and government scrutiny, the trading price of ...

Lawsuit Follows Reports of Auditor Resignations and Raids by Regulators

Girard Sharp LLP and Gibbs Law Group LLP have filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in New York on behalf of certain GPB investors. The lawsuit seeks, among other things, to require GPB to ...

Bustle magazine has published a moving opinion piece written by USC alumna and Girard Sharp client Shannon O’Conner, one of the thousands of women who allegedly suffered sexual abuse by the former head gynecologist at the USC student health center. Ms ...

Daniel Girard has been appointed to serve as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies.The Restatement will address tort damages, injunctions against torts, and other remedies. Advisers work closely with the ...

The National Law Journal and ALM Media honored Girard Sharp and firm partner Dena Sharp at the 2019 Elite Trial Lawyer awards gala, which took place at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City earlier this month.

Girard Sharp was the sole winner of an Elite Trial ...

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $7.25 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google concerning the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. The plaintiffs allege that Pixels manufactured before January 4, 2017 have a ...

Preliminary approval for the amended settlement in the USC Tyndall class action has been granted, and the claims period is now open. Survivors can make claims or get help and information by visiting the settlement website here. 

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of an $18 million settlement in the Wells Fargo TCPA litigation. Follow us @GirardSharp for updates. 

Daniel Girard talks about his journey from paralegal to leading plaintiff’s advocate in the second part of his Leading Litigators interview with Steven Weisbrot and The Angeion Group.

Firm founder Daniel Girard sat down recently with Steven Weisbrot to share his experiences as one of the country’s leading plaintiff’s advocates for the latest installment of The Angeion Group's Leading Litigators interview series.

U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. on June 18 denied Uber’s attempt to force a consumer plaintiff to drop his class action claims against Uber and proceed individually in private arbitration.

Our client—the consumer plaintiff—alleges that Uber ...

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of the settlement in a class action with the University of Southern California, its board of trustees, and Dr. George Tyndall. Follow us @GirardSharp for updates. 

The law firms of Girard Sharp LLP and Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP announce that on May 3, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order granting preliminary approval to a $9.75 million settlement ...

On June 4, 2019, a federal judge appointed Girard Sharp partner Dena Sharp as interim co-lead counsel in In re: Humira Antitrust Litigation. The case centers on allegations that pharmaceutical companies AbbVie and Amgen engaged in anticompetitive ...

Adam E. Polk

In Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977), the Supreme Court held that only those who purchase goods or services directly from an alleged violator of the antitrust laws can maintain a Clayton Act claim for damages. Ever since, this “direct ...

Trevor Tan

The California Supreme Court will soon issue a decision that could significantly alter tort liability under California law.

The Southern California Gas Leak Cases present the court with the opportunity to clarify whether a plaintiff who suffered purely ...

Name Partner Daniel C. Girard was one of four members newly elected this week to the American Law Institute’s Council, which determines projects and activities to be undertaken by the ALI and approves the work as representing the position of the Institute.

The ...

Girard Sharp LLP and its co-counsel filed a motion on May 10 seeking approval of a proposed $7.25 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Google concerning the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. The plaintiffs allege that Pixels ...

Girard Sharp has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Intuit Inc., the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block colluded to defraud taxpayers in low-income brackets and deliberately impeded access to a free online tax filing program required by the IRS. Read the consolidated ...

A federal judge today granted preliminary approval of a $9.75 million settlement of product defect claims involving Nexus 6P smartphones.

The settlement with Google and its joint venturer, Huawei, will provide up to $400 to phone owners who experienced sudden ...

Court grants final approval of settlement in HP Printer Firmware Update Litigation; printer owners will receive full refunds for misuse of digital security update.

Court grants final approval of $8.3 million settlement in Lenovo Adware Litigation; claimants will recover 100% of out-of-pocket losses plus $45 per laptop.

On April 22, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted in part and denied in part Apple’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ Consolidated Class Action Complaint against Apple.  The Court found that the plaintiffs ...

On February 12, 2019, plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary approval of a class action settlement with the University of Southern California, its board of trustees, and Dr. George Tyndall, and an accompanying motion to appoint a special master to oversee the ...

On April 10, 2019, Girard Sharp LLP and its co-counsel filed a motion seeking approval of a proposed $9.75 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Google and Huawei concerning the Nexus 6P smartphone.

The plaintiffs allege the Nexus 6P is defective and can ...

Girard Sharp LLP and Gibbs Law Group are pleased to announce that the Court has denied in large part Defendants’ motion to compel their clients’ claims to arbitration in In re Pacific Fertility Center Litigation, a case pending in the Northern District of ...

Girard Sharp has filed a complaint against pharmaceutical companies AbbVie and Amgen alleging the companies engaged in anticompetitive practices with respect to the biologic drug Humira. Plaintiff Fraternal Order of Police Miami Lodge 20 Insurance Trust ...

Elizabeth A. Kramer

On March 20, 2019, the Supreme Court vacated the Ninth Circuit’s decision upholding a cy pres-only class action settlement and remanded for further proceedings—not on the merit of the settlement, but regarding whether the plaintiffs have ...

Trevor Tan

On December 1, 2018, several amendments to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect. While not transformative, the amendments clarify the process by which federal courts assess and approve class action settlements.

Most ...

Jordan Elias and Adam E. Polk

In two January 2019 opinions written by the two newest Justices, the Supreme Court added to its ever-growing body of arbitration jurisprudence.

The unanimous decisions in Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. and New Prime Inc. v ...

Scott Grzenczyk

In individual litigation, a plaintiff files a lawsuit on his or her own behalf and can only bring legal claims under the laws of states with a connection to the harm suffered or the defendant’s illegal conduct. But in a class action lawsuit, a plaintiff ...

Scott Grzenczyk

Class action lawsuits allow plaintiffs to pursue the legal rights of a large group of consumers—sometimes hundreds of thousands—who were all affected by the same illegal conduct. But what happens when a small portion of that group wasn’t harmed ...

Elizabeth A. Kramer

University of Southern California (USC) students and alumni today filed a class action settlement agreement resolving claims related to gynecologist George Tyndall, M.D. that will require USC to adopt and implement procedures for ...

Simon S. Grille

Last year, a group of consumers sued Uber for flooding their cell phones with unwanted text messages.  The consumers claimed that they had never signed up for Uber’s services but were still getting bombarded with Uber text messages, even after telling ...

If you are wondering what a class action lawsuit is, you’re not alone. Class action lawsuits tend to be highly complex, and they require an experienced lawyer at the helm. The actual definition of a class action, though, is fairly simple: in a class action, a person or ...

The Supreme Court agreed last month to address whether district courts must accept the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) interpretations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)—the statute that protects consumers from receiving marketing ...

The American Law Institute announced that Dena Sharp has been elected as a new member of the Institute.

ALI members are prominent judges, lawyers, and law professors who are confidentially nominated by their peers, vetted by ALI’s Membership Committee, and ...

Girard Sharp Lawyers Adam E. Polk and Scott Grzenczyk recently presented on the First Circuit’s decision in In re Asacol Antitrust Litigation for the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, Class Action and Derivative Suits subcommittee. Adam and ...

Jordan Elias— November 28, 2018

Many of the largest and most significant class actions wind up in a multidistrict litigation. What’s an “MDL” and how is it different from a regular court proceeding?

The MDL Statute

A federal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1407, governs ...

Trevor Tan — November 15, 2018

Class action attorneys often seek to represent many thousand potential class members. Identifying them can sometimes pose a challenge. In some cases, class members can only be identified based on the defendant’s records. 

But what if ...

Elizabeth A. Kramer— November 9, 2018

On October 31 the Supreme Court heard argument in a “cy pres only” settlement case. Based on the argument, the original cy pres question that was presented in Frank v. Gaos may be eclipsed by questions about whether the class ...

Simon S. Grille— November 8, 2018

A hidden arbitration provision can’t help Viacom defend claims that it illegally collected the personal information of kids who played its “Llama Spit Spit” cell phone game, a federal judge ruled last month.  

The ...

Jordan Elias— October 25, 2018

For forty years, consumers haven’t been able to bring antitrust claims under the Sherman Act. Depending on how the Supreme Court decides a case this term, that may be about to change.

Illinois Brick

In its 1977 Illinois Brick decision ...

Angelica Ornelas— October 23, 2018

Class actions are an effective way to hold banks, corporations, and others accountable for unlawful practices, defective products, and other wrongdoing. (For more details about how a class action works, please see our ...

Simon S. Grille— October 22, 2018

In a win for consumers, the California Court of Appeal has revived a class action lawsuit about “One A Day” vitamins that are actually “two a day” vitamins. It turns out that “nano-type print” on the back of the jar says ...

Elizabeth A. Kramer— October 19, 2018

The term cy pres is from the French phrase “cy pres comme possible,” which means “as near as possible.”  In the class action context, it refers to distributing settlement funds to third-party organizations when those ...

Jordan Elias— October 15, 2018

When many people think of class actions, they think of a postcard describing a settlement in tiny print and often offering little in the way of a payment. At Girard Sharp we believe class actions can be a vital tool to get money back to ...

Simon S. Grille— October 11, 2018

Girard Sharp has filed a consolidated complaint against Apple alleging that Apple manufactured and sold MacBook laptops that have defective “butterfly” keyboards.  The complaint asserts that minimal amounts of dust or debris ...

Together, Daniel Girard and Eric Gibbs built Girard Gibbs’s national reputation for innovation and excellence in complex litigation. Over 20 years, the firm’s lawyers earned the trust of clients and courts and helped shaped the law in a variety of practice areas ...

Hosted by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and the Electronic Discovery Institute (EDI), Dena Sharp served as a co-chair and faculty member for the Fourth Annual Judicial Training Symposium for Federal Judges. The event, taking place on November 14, 2018, brought ...

A California federal court appointed Girard Sharp lawyers to lead a consumer class action alleging that Apple sold defective MacBook laptops. The Court’s order gives the firm and its co-counsel “sole authority over all matters concerning the prosecution of ...

A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York has denied a motion to dismiss complaints filed on behalf of purchasers of a prescription dry eye treatment called Restasis. The complaints allege that the pharmaceutical giant Allergan, maker of Restasis, has ...

Girard Sharp and its co-lead counsel have delivered settlements of more than $104 million for end purchasers of a prescription pain patch called Lidoderm. A California federal judge on September 12, 2018 approved the “excellent” settlement ending claims that ...

The National Law Journal has named Girard Sharp as a 2018 Elite Trial Lawyers finalist in the areas of Financial Products and Privacy/Data Breach. The NLJ’s editors and researchers published the finalists on July 26, 2018, and the honorees were selected from among ...

On July 10, 2018, Northern California Super Lawyers released its annual listing of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, which honors “outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional ...