News Room

News Archive — All

BR&B Files Class Action Lawsuit Against St. Jude Medical, Inc.

12/7/2012 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine announces that it has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, Freedman v. St. Jude Medical, Inc., et al., No. 12-03070-RHK-JJG, on behalf of purchasers of common stock of St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) during the period from October 17, 2012 through and including November 20, 2012 (the “Class Period”).

Read Article

District Court Allows Claims Against Bank of America to Proceed

7/11/2012 - U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley, III, denied Bank of America Corporation’s motion to dismiss the claims in Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System v. Bank of America Corporation that it had violated section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The court held that the consolidated complaint filed by the lead plaintiff, BR&B client Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, properly alleges that Bank of America purposefully concealed its reliance on Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

Read Article

Court Gives Green Light to Allergan Derivative Case

6/11/2012 - Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Chancery Court gave the green light to a derivative action against the members of Allergan Inc.’s Board of Directors. Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, representing co-lead plaintiff Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System, serves as co-lead counsel in the action. BR&B filed this action on behalf of LAMPERS, an Allergan shareholder, after news reports that Allergan had paid a $600 million fine for off-label marketing and promotion of one of its primary products, BOTOX®Therapeutic.

Read Article

BR&B Clients Appointed Lead Plaintiffs in Green Mountain Litigation

4/27/2012 - The Honorable William K. Sessions, III has appointed a global institutional investor group, which includes BR&B clients the Mississippi Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Employees’ Retirement System of the Government of the Virgin Islands, as lead plaintiff and has appointed BR&B as co-lead counsel in Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System v. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., et al., case no. 2:11-cv-289, pending in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.

Read Article

Court Grants Final Approval of Agreement Resolving Apollo Litigation

4/20/2012 - Barrack Rodos & Bacine announces that on April 20, 2012, Judge James A. Teilborg of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona granted final approval of the $145 million agreement resolving the In re Apollo Group, Inc., Securities Litigation, noting that Class Counsel had obtained “an exceptional result for the class.” The court also commented that “Class Counsel have demonstrated a high degree of competence in the eight years of litigation of this case.”

Read Article

BR&B Clients Appointed Lead Plaintiffs in Omnivision Litigation

2/21/2012 - The Honorable Ronald M. Whyte has appointed an institutional investor group including BR&B clients as lead plaintiff and has appointed BR&B as co-lead counsel in In re Omnivision Technologies, Inc. Litigation, Civil Action No. 5:11-cv-05235-RMW, pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Read Article

Pages