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"Modern wiretapping": Can the federal Wiretap Act protect consumers from the latest methods of online and mobile tracking?
By: David A. Holop, Brian R. Strange and Jennifer Lin
Anticipated release - July/August 2012
A class has been certified in a case involving uninsured Sharp Hospital patients.
You may be a member of the class, and your rights may be affected.
Click here to access the Notice of Pendency of Class Action.
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Located in Los Angeles, the law firm of Strange & Carpenter has represented plaintiffs in class action and other complex litigation for more than 20 years. As a boutique complex litigation firm, we represent clients in federal and state courts in California and nationwide. Our firm focuses on representing consumers, individuals and business entities that have been damaged by unfair business practices, anti-competitive conduct, defective products and prescription drugs, false advertising, and other instances of business and consumer fraud and wrongdoing.
We are committed to achieving justice and fairness and to rectifying corporate misconduct. To that end, our highly qualified Los Angeles complex litigation lawyers have obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements for our clients.
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Our law firm represents plaintiffs in complex and sometimes high-profile class action litigation against large corporations. Our track record of success in resolving these cases has earned our firm a national reputation, and we have the substantial resources that are sometimes necessary in order to take a class action lawsuit to a successful conclusion.
Court Grants Strange & Carpenter's Motion for Class Certification on Hospital Charges:
In a case in which Strange & Carpenter already successfully argued and obtained a published Court of Appeal opinion, on December 16, 2011, the San Diego Superior Court granted Strange & Carpenter's motion for class certification of a class of consumers in the case entitled Hale v. Sharp Healthcare on behalf of individuals who from August 11, 2003 to December 16, 2011: (a) received emergent-care medical treatment at Sharp Hospital and signed the defendant Sharp Healthcare standard form Admission Agreement; and (b) were not covered by insurance or government healthcare programs at the time of treatment. The court certified the class claims for violation of California's consumer protection statutes, based on allegations that Sharp Healthcare improperly charged uninsured emergency care patients amounts far in excess of what it charged patients covered by private insurance and government health care programs -- amounts in excess of the "regular rates" Sharp Healthcare agreed in its Admission Agreements to charge.
In re Sony Gaming Networks and Customer Data Security Breach Litigation:
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee of this Multi-District Litigation, a class action on behalf of all persons or entities that have or had a PlayStation Network, Qriocity and/or Sony Online Entertainment account containing Financial, Personal ID or Usage Data at the time Defendants suffered a security breach on or about April 17-19, 2011. This action arises from Defendants' failure to adequately safeguard certain financial, personal identification, and related data belonging to Plaintiffs and others similarly situated who provided this data as part of Defendants' PlayStation Network and Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment services. Plaintiffs allege that as a result of Defendants' actions and omissions, unauthorized third parties breached Defendants' security systems and were able to access the Financial, Personal ID and Usage Data of an estimated 101 million users.
Gram v. Intelligender, LLC: a settlement has been reached in a class action involving Intelligender's marketing and selling of its Gender Prediction Tests, which Intelligender represents will predict the gender of unborn children at a high accuracy rate well before an ultrasound or sonogram can do so. Plaintiff has alleged that Intelligender's advertising and marketing relating to the accuracy rates and scientific bases of the Gender Prediction Tests are false and misleading and that the Tests are not reliable and do not accurately predict the sex of an unborn baby. For more details, visit the settlement website at www.genderpredictionsettlement.com.
BREAKING NEWS
On May 8, 2012, it was announced that the entire fleet of Britain's Eurocopter EC-135 helicopters in the air ambulance fleet were grounded because of concerns about possible cracks in the rotor hub. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17993232) Strange & Carpenter represents the surviving family members of victims from the February 10, 2010 crash involving a Eurocopter EC-135 in Cave Creek, Arizona. If you have any information about the grounding of Britain's Eurocopter EC-135 air ambulances, or investigations into potential cracks in the rotor hubs of Eurocopter EC-135 helicopters, please contact attorney John Kristensen at Strange & Carpenter.
Apple e-Books
Strange & Carpenter is investigating Apple, Inc.; Hachette Book Group, Inc.; HarperCollins Publishers LLC; Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC dba Macmillan; The Penguin Group, a division of Pearson PLC and Penguin Group (USA), Inc.; and Simon & Schuster, Inc. for conspiring to raise retail e-book prices and limit competing e-book prices resulting in consumers paying millions of dollars more. If you purchased an e-book through your Apple device, please contact our office of a free consultation.
Yazaki Corporation, Furukawa Electric Company, Delphi Automotive, Lear Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries and S-Y Systems Technologies
Strange & Carpenter is investigating the price-fixing scandal that has shaken up the automotive supply industry. The Department of Justice announced on January 31, 2012, that Yazaki Corporation ("Yazaki") would pay the second largest anti-trust fine in U.S. history of nearly $500 million. Individual Yazaki executives will plead guilty and serve record prison terms for their role in fixing the automobile wire harness markets along with the markets for instrument panel clusters and fuel senders.
The Yazaki guilty pleas follow up on another large fine of approximately $200 million levied against its price fixing partner, Furukawa Electric Company ("Furukawa"). Yazaki and Furukawa are defendants in class action suits alleging price fixing by Yazaki, Furukaway, Delphi Automotive, Lear Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries and S-Y Systems Technologies.
If you purchased automobile wire harness systems, instrument panel clusters and fuel senders directly from any of these defendants in the class action suits, you may have paid higher prices as a result of such price fixing. If you are interested or would like to receive more information about this potential matter, please contact our office.
Strange & Carpenter is investigating potential antitrust claims by video game developers and others who have been forced to implement Facebook's new "Facebook credits" system. Please contact the firm with questions or if you think you might be affected by Facebook's new "Facebook credits" policy. For further information, please visit http://stopfacebookcredits.com.
HTC, Motorola and Samsung Mobile Devices
Strange & Carpenter is investigating HTC IQAgent software that was installed, without notice or consent on certain HTC, Motorola and Samsung devices, which allows third parties to log and collect confidential, unencrypted user data. If you purchased any of the following phones between January 1, 2009 and the present, please contact our office: HTC EVO, HTC EVO 4G, HTC EVO 3D, EVO Shift 4G, EVO Design 4G, Motorola Admiral, Motorola Titanium, Motorola Bravo, Motorola Atrix 2, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Galaxy SII Epic Touch, Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket and/or Samsung Epic 4G, Samsung Exhibit II 4G, LG Doubleplay, T-Mobile MyTouch, MyTouch Q for LG, BlackBerry 9900, BlackBerry9360 and BlackBerry 9810.
ZTE Avail, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Sanyo Zio Devices
Strange & Carpenter is investigating Carrier IQ software that was installed, without notice or consent on certain ZTE, Sony Ericsson and Sanyo devices, which allows third parties to log and collect confidential, unencrypted user data. If you purchased any of the following phones between January 1, 2009 and the present, please contact our office: ZTE Avail, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Sanyo Zio.
Polaris Ranger
Have you purchased a defective 2008 to 2011 Polaris Ranger vehicle (manufactured by Polaris Industries, Inc.), which generates excessive heat, including but not limited to the following areas: the front area of the radiator compartment, forcing hot air into the driver and passenger area through the pedals; the engine compartment, forcing hot air through the seat handle from the engine compartment as well as excessive heat to the passenger seat; the engine compartment generating excessive heat to what would be considered the engine fire wall, causing severe heat to the back of passengers' legs; and the excessive heat generated to the gas tank? If so, please contact us for a consultation.
Toyota
Strange & Carpenter has been appointed lead counsel in the California State Court consolidated class action, In re Toyota Motor Cases, JCCP 4621. Please contact us to consult with a lawyer on this issue.
Mortgage-Related Issues and Home Affordable Modification Program
Strange & Carpenter is investigating mortgage-related issues and whether Wells Fargo, CitiMortgage, American Home Mortgage, Litton Loan Servicing, OneWest Bank, Aurora Loan Services, Ocwen Financial Corp., Wachovia, Saxon Mortgage Services, and PNC Mortgage are complying with the loan modification requirements of the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Please contact us to discuss your case if you are the borrower of a mortgage loan with one of these lenders/loan servicers who applied for and were determined to be eligible for a HAMP loan modification, but did not receive a permanent loan modification.
Time Warner Telecom
Strange & Carpenter is investigating Time Warner Telecom's Ethernet/Internet services to businesses and whether the actual connection speed delivered is lowered by certain overhead factors resulting in a much lower connection speed than is paid for by customers and promised by Time Warner Telecom. Contact Strange & Carpenter to discuss your claim.
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At Strange & Carpenter, we pride ourselves on maintaining a high level of accessibility to our clients. If we accept your case, our lawyers will provide you with a high level of representation.
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