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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Western District Court of Oklahoma against Dungarvin Oklahoma, Inc. for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Class members seek unpaid overtime compensation, prejudgment interest, damages, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

Price-fixing by powerful cartels occurs in unlikely-seeming places. The jury has returned a $56 million verdict in an antitrust class action filed against three Maine blueberry processing companies on behalf of Maine wild blueberry growers who directly or indirectly sold wild blueberries to them from February 28, 1996, through February 28, 2000. The money will not be distributed until all possible appeals have been exhausted.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Southeast Milk, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees of Southeast who have not been paid overtime wages for all hours worked in excess of 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory and liquidated damages as well as back pay, injunctive and declaratory relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants must "opt-in" and consent to be members of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants.

Federal civil rights law gives you the right to sue if you are discriminated against on the basis of your race, color, national origin, or gender. The class has been certified in a class action filed against Combined Insurance Company of America on behalf of current and former female sales agents and managers who, after March 8, 2002, were members of Combined's "Seventh Essential Enhanced Sales Force." The action alleges that Combined has engaged in a pattern or practice of sex discrimination toward and sexual harassment of women in violation of Title VII of the federal 1964 Civil Rights Act.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the District Court of Massachusetts against American Music Group, Inc. for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Class members seek to recover unpaid minimum wages, overtime compensation, liquidated damages, attorneys' fees and costs.

A class action has been filed against McDonald's Corporation alleging that the fast food giant has been systematically terminating employees over the age of 40 in its Atlanta region restaurants. The former employees are seeking back pay, reinstatement to their positions, liquidated damages equal to their back pay and lost wages, injunctive and declaratory relief, attorney's fees, costs and interest.

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