Class action

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Putin signs law on commencement of class action lawsuits

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill allowing citizens to lodge class action lawsuits with general jurisdiction courts into law.

09:58 19.07.2019

Russian senators approve initiative on commencement of class action

Russian senators on Wednesday backed an initiative allowing citizens to lodge class action lawsuits with general jurisdiction courts

13:58 10.07.2019

Lower house of Russian parliament passes class action bill

The State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, adopted a bill allowing citizens to file class action lawsuits with general jurisdiction courts in the third and final reading on Thursday.

14:33 27.06.2019

US senator sues Obama over NSA surveillance

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against US President Barrack Obama and various other high-ranking officials over the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance activities.

17:45 13.02.2014

Relatives of Russian hockey team perished in air crash demand $3 million

Relatives of the Lokomotiv ice hockey team members who died in a airplane crash in 2012 filed a class action lawsuit demanding 104,8 million rubles ($3 million) in compensation, according to the notification posted on attorney Igor Trunov’s website.

10:52 24.01.2014

Shareholders file $2.8 bln class action suit against Starbucks – report

Starbucks shareholders filed a $2.8 billion class action suit alleging that the coffee giant’s board of directors and executive officers breached their fiduciary duties and grossly understated a contract breach with Kraft in SEC filings.

16:12 23.01.2014

Complaint over inaction in the Dubrovka terror case investigation to be reviewed

The Moscow City Court has returned for review the lower court's ruling that the dismissal of the complaint over the negligence of the authorities during the Dubrovka Theater Center hostage crisis in 2002 was illegitimate.

13:26 04.02.2013

Carnival, et al. move to dismiss US Costa Concordia suit

Carnival Corporation and co-defendants on Monday filed to dismiss for forum non conveniens a civil case arising from 2012’s deadly Costa Concordia cruise ship crash off the coast of Italy, which was launched in a federal district court in Illinois.

17:16 15.01.2013

Madonna to receive statement of claim from St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg's Moskovsky District Court will send Madonna the statements of claim from the concerned individuals seeking to recover about $10.8 million in moral damages after she expressed her support for the LGBT community during her performance in St. Petersburg on August 9.

12:06 17.10.2012

Madonna might be sued for $10.45 million after her concert in Russia

Several NGOs, which claimed that Madonna violated a law on promoting homosexuality among minors during her concert in St. Petersburg, plan to file a lawsuit for 333 million rubles ($10.45 million) against Madonna.

10:08 16.08.2012

Muscovites unite in class action suit against metro construction

The Moscow Dorogomilovsky District Court combined the claims launched by a group of Moscow residents in Ramenki district into a single class action suit. The suit revolves around the construction of a metro station.

12:50 13.08.2012