Class Actions

Experience Highlights

• 7-Eleven in obtaining dismissal of class action alleging that the labels on snack food products were not in compliance with FDA regulations for food labeling.

• ​​​​​​Honeywell in the defense of a consolidated class action and approximately 45 individual toxic tort suits arising out of the presence of PFOA in the groundwater and municipal water supply of Hoosick Falls, New York. 

• Hologic and Cynosure in defeating class certification and obtaining summary judgment in a purported class action regarding the efficacy of the SculpSure® device. 

• General Electric in securing dismissal of putative class action alleging personal injuries from radiation exposure arising out of the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown. 

• Carnival Corporation and its subsidiaries as co-lead counsel in defense of multiple class actions and 200+ individual wrongful-death and personal injury claims arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Secured dismissal with prejudice and favorable resolution of all actions and established ground-breaking precedents in COVID claims.

• Yelp in successfully defending the company and three of its senior officers in a consolidated securities class action.

• Samsung in successfully resolving all claims relating to a nationwide class action MDL involving a voluntary recall of 34 top-load washing machines, including a victory in the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

• McDonald's Corporation, Coty Inc., Shiseido America Corp. in securing precedent-setting victories in first PFAS class actions against cosmetic and fast-food companies.

• Atlantic Richfield as national counsel in numerous lawsuits against former manufacturers of lead pigment, including non-injury public nuisance cases brought by state and local governments and a statewide class action on behalf of parents seeking to recover medical screening costs.

• Gilead Sciences, HBO, Honeywell, and Tandem Diabetes in obtaining dismissal of putative data breach class actions.